Today’s ACT question of the day is a great math question about simplifying radicals. There are two approaches: a calculator approach, and a non-calculator approach.
The question: what integer approximates 
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SAT Question of the Day Explained – March 10, 2014 – Identifying Sentence Errors
ACT Question of the Day – March 10, 2014 – English
Today’s ACT question of the day is a repeat of a previously seen English question from the passage about radio. Check out a variety of questions form this passage: February 22, February 14, February 10, and January 17.
SAT Question of the Day Explained – March 9, 2014 – Sentence Completion
Today’s SAT question of the day is a sentence completion question about a film that polarized an audience. To polarize something is to drive it to opposing ends of the spectrum (like the north and south poles!), so this audience has been split down the middle regarding this film.
Here are our two poles: While many ——- the film for its artfully directed scenes, others ——- it for being inaccessible. Continue reading
ACT Question of the Day Explained – March 9, 2014 – Science
Today’s ACT question of the day comes from the science passage about the stick. We are asked to draw a conclusion based on Shadow A of experiment 1 (data below). Shadow A was measured one hour after sunrise.
| Table 1 | ||||||
| Shadow | Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | |||
| Length (m) |
Shadow direction |
Length (m) |
Shadow direction |
Length (m) |
Shadow direction |
|
| A | 5.0 | SW | 8.6 | NW | 6.8 | W |
| B | 1.2 | W | 2.9 | NNW | 1.7 | NW |
| C | 0.3 | N | 2.3 | N | 0.9 | N |
| D | 1.2 | E | 3.0 | NNE | 1.8 | NE |
| E | 5.0 | SE | 8.6 | NE | 6.9 | E |
SAT Question of the Day Explained – March 8, 2014 – Math, Geometry, Triangles
Today’s SAT question of the day is a geometry question about a triangle that isn’t even shown on the test. This triangle, however, is shown. They tell us that this one (ABC) is congruent to mysterious triangle DEF.
ACT Question of the Day Explained – March 8, 2014 – Reading
Today’s ACT question of the day is another repeat of the January 27 question about why the children say “no” in the passage about Mrs. Sennett. This is a great question to review for strategies for handling fiction passage tone and inference.
ACT Question of the Day Explained – March 7, 2014 – Math
Today’s ACT question of the day is about a certain rectangle. This rectangle happens to be twice as long as it is wide.
They tell us that the rectangle’s width is 3 inches, and task us with finding the area. Since the area of a rectangle = length times width, our first step is to find the length. Continue reading
SAT Question of the Day Explained – March 7, 2014 – Improving Sentences
Today’s SAT question of the day is a spicy improving question with a subordinate clause problem. In its most basic form, the sentence says:
The variety of spices used in cooking, including salt and, it depends on the recipe’s origin, other spices.
ACT Question of the Day Explained – March 6, 2014 – English
Today’s ACT question of the day is an English question from the baseball passage. We’re asked to choose a transition sentence that will fit between paragraphs 1 and 2.
Paragraph one provides an anecdote about a baseball-obsessed teacher. The next paragraph talks about the appeal of baseball. How can we link the two? Continue reading