Today’s SAT question of the day: All numbers divisible by both 4 and 15 are also divisible by which of the following?
Divisibility…what does it mean? Just that a number can be divided evenly (no remainder) by another number. For instance, 10 is evenly divisible by 5, but not by 7. Got it?
Good. Let’s tackle today’s divisibility questions.
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Today’s SAT question of the day is a classic writing multiple choice question. We are comparing a dog’s sense of smell…to what?
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Straight to the point: improving your vocabulary helps you in these three ways on the SAT and ACT:
Bonus: you can use these new words in your school assignments and college essays!
There are many ways to improve your vocab level, but here are my two favorite (“laziest”) ways to incorporate some new words into your life ASAP:
– not the coolest tunes you’ll ever hear maybe, but an extremely low-effort way to learn new lingoMost of my students find it easy to learn about 10 new words per week at the depth needed for these tests – so what are you waiting for? Go elevate your linguistic knowledge – and your scores.
Happy new year! Today’s SAT question of the day is a math question about stamps and envelopes. How many more years before no one will know what those are?? Anyhow, the question is as follows:
A machine can insert letters in envelopes at the rate of 120 per minute. Another machine can stamp the envelopes at the rate of 3 per second. How many such stamping machines are needed to keep up with 18 inserting machines of this kind?
They’ve kindly underlined the first thing that we need to look at: we have a units mismatch. One machine is in envelopes per minute, but the other is in envelopes per second. Continue reading
Today’s SAT question of the day is a math question about some basic algebra. The answer choices are those fun roman numeral options. The question:
If 
, the value of 
can be which of the following?
. 
. 
. 
We can solve this either by doing a little algebra or by thinking it through (and testing out the answer choices). I will show you both ways. Continue reading
Today’s SAT question of the day is a quick and easy writing multiple choice question about tigers. Let’s see if you can solve this identifying sentence errors question:
The tiger usually hunts by night and feeds on a variety of animals, but it prefers fairly large prey such as deer and wild pigs.
All of the verbs match…all of the conjunctions and other sentence bits seem to be in order, too. This simple sentence has no error! If you don’t hear an error when you read the sentence, check each blank systematically…and if you still don’t see an error, be confident that there’s no error!
Today’s SAT Question of the Day is a two-blank sentence completion question about William the Conqueror.
The success of the Norman Invasion depended on ——- logistical operation: in planning it, William the Conqueror wisely left no detail ——-.
What is this sentence about? Planning. It was a detailed operation that left no detail unplanned. Sound silly? Perhaps when you write it out like this, but that is all you need to know in order to get the correct answer – and I even borrowed the words “detail” and “planning” right from the provided sentence! Continue reading
Today’s SAT Question of the Day is a math question about counting. These simplistic questions often contain more than meets the eye – and this one is testing your knowledge of a simple rule of counting.
On the last day of a one-week sale, customers numbered 149 through 201 were waited on. How many customers were waited on that day?
I bet most of you just subtracted 149 from 201, bubbled in 52, and moved on. But what if I told you that isn’t the answer? Continue reading
Kafka in 1917
Today’s SAT question of the day is an identifying sentence errors question about pronouns and Franz Kafka.
The credit for making Franz Kafka internationally famous as a writer belongs to his friend, novelist Max Brod, which despite Kafka’s dying wishes, edited Kafka’s unpublished manuscripts and then had them published.
Do you hear the error? Continue reading