Today’s SAT question of the day is a sentence completion about the loss of a class president election. The candidate was in extremely low spirits after his loss – and the colon tells us that this is a definition sentence, so that clue can become our prediction.
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ACT Question of the Day Explained – March 5, 2014 – Science, Data
Today’s ACT science question involves two steps: reading the provided text and reading charts. This is just slightly more complicated than the questions that ask us to read data out of charts.
In this experiment, a stick has been placed in the ground. The student who placed the stick then measures the stick’s shadow length and direction at various times over several days.
The question: When the Sun is at an altitude 45° above the horizon, a vertical object will cast a shadow with a length equal to the object’s height. Which of the following days included a measurement taken when the Sun was at an altitude of 45° ? Continue reading
SAT Question of the Day Explained – March 5, 2014 – Math
Today’s SAT question of the day is about this graph:
We need to know how many times this function (only defined between x = -1.5 and x = 1.5) = 0.2. Continue reading
ACT Question of the Day Explained – March 3, 2014 – Math, Algebra, Lines
Today’s ACT question of the day wants us to find the slope of the line described by this equation:
3x = 10 – 5y
Sadly, it’s not just pointing to a number – we have to convert this to y = mx + b format. Continue reading
ACT Question of the Day Explained – March 4, 2014 – Reading, Social Sciences
Today’s ACT question of the day is a repeat of the question about trial by battle. Enjoy the review!
SAT Question of the Day Explained – March 4, 2014 – Identifying Sentence Errors
Today’s SAT question of the day is an identifying sentence errors question about The Simpsons! That’s about as fun as the SAT gets, so enjoy it.
Let’s check each underlined section….
SAT Question of the Day Explained – March 3, 2014 – Sentence Completion
Today’s SAT question of the day is an easy sentence completion about anger management. The first half of the sentence tells us that we will be refuting the idea that expressing anger is a way to reduce it. Continue reading
ACT Question of the Day Explained – March 2, 2014 – English
Today’s ACT question of the day is from the English passage about baseball. We need to fix the underlined part of the sentence below (so ignore the other, non-underlined error).
When Hank Aaron stretched out a sinewy arm to pull one down, striding up to a rack of ash-hewn bats, he became a modern-day knight selecting their lance.
SAT Question of the Day Explained – March 2, 2014 – Math
Today’s SAT question of the day is a math question about time.
A quick review:
- 60 seconds make one minute
- 60 minutes make one hour
- 24 hours make one day
We need to figure out what time it will be 253 hours after Saturday at 4 pm.
ACT Question of the Day Explained – March 1, 2014 – Science
Today’s ACT question of the day is an exciting science question about this graph:
Let’s pause to note the axes: concentration on the x-axis and sediment depth on y.
This graph corresponds to one of the elements in this chart:
| Depth (cm) |
Temperature (oC) |
pH | Concentration in sediment (ppm) | |||||
| SO42– | S2– | CO2 | Fe3+ | Fe2+ | O2 | |||
| 0 | 4 | 7.0 | 7.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 4.0 | 0.5 | 2.0 |
| 5 | 5 | 6.5 | 5.0 | 2.0 | 1.5 | 3.0 | 1.5 | 1.0 |
| 10 | 7 | 6.0 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 |
| 15 | 9 | 5.5 | 3.3 | 3.8 | 3.0 | 0.8 | 3.8 | 0.0 |
| 20 | 10 | 5.0 | 3.0 | 4.0 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 4.0 | 0.0 |