Today’s SAT question of the day is a vocabulary roller coaster! This hard-difficulty sentence completion begins:
“True to her altruistic beliefs…”
Do you know what altruism is? Continue reading
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SAT Question of the Day Explained – February 1, 2014 – Sentence Completion
Today’s SAT question of the day is an easy question about food. Sound good?
The sentence begins, “Food can be ——- element in family life, bringing us together…”.
ACT Question of the Day Explained – January 31, 2014 – Reading, Details
Today’s ACT question of the day is the same detail question about a hat we saw about a week ago.
If you’re ready to review for next week’s test, you can take a look over all ACT tips to make sure you’ve got your strategies down! Don’t forget your test day checklist, either.
SAT Question of the Day Explained – January 29, 2014 – Sentence Completion
Today’s SAT Question of the Day is a hard-difficulty, one-blank sentence completion. Not only is the vocabulary level of the answer choices pretty tough, the sentence itself is complex…or so it seems at first. Let’s give it a try.
ACT Question of the Day Explained – January 27, 2014 – Reading, Fiction
Today’s ACT question of the day comes from a fiction passage – the same passage we saw last week, in fact, in the question about the hat. Our question asks us to consider evidence given throughout the passage as support for why the children are saying “no” at the end of the text.
SAT Question of the Day Explained – January 26, 2014 – Sentence Completion, Two Blanks
David Livingstone
Today’s SAT question of the day is a two-blank question about explorer David Livingstone.
The first blank tells us that he has a certain kind of reputation – we just don’t know what it is yet, so we’ll have to keep reading.
The second blank helps us unpack the sentence: some revile him, while others…blank him. Let’s see what revile means. Continue reading
ACT Question of the Day Explained – January 23, 2014 – Reading
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Today’s ACT question of the day is a detail question from a fiction passage. We are asked why a certain character always wears a hat, so our first task is to look back at the passage and find the mention of hats. Continue reading
SAT Question of the Day Explained – January 23, 2014 – Sentence Completion
Tom Whittaker (right)
Today’s SAT question of the day is a single-blank sentence completion about a certain mountaineer. He had “unflagging determination” and “_______ physical preparation” for his successful ascent. Let’s think of what should go in that blank. Continue reading
SAT Question of the Day Explained – January 20, 2014 – Sentence Completion
Today’s official SAT question of the day is a sentence completion about regulations on laboratory animals. We’ve got two blanks, so we have to make sure that our answer works for both blanks – but we also get twice as many chances if we need to eliminate some implausible answer choices.
For the first blank, we know that the policies used to be … something … but they are now mandatory. For the second blank, we know that it’s something in relation to the policy that would cause labs to lose their grants. Continue reading
ACT Question of the Day Explained – January 19, 2014 – Reading, Social Sciences
Today’s ACT question of the day comes from the same social sciences passage about the medieval court system that we read a few days ago. (Sorry that the ACT doesn’t publish a permanent link to its questions of the day like the SAT does! I’m looking for an online link to their questions, but the general principles still apply to the questions that you will see on test day – and those principles are more important than solving specific questions, since you won’t see these exact questions on your test, anyhow!)
We have a detail question that asks about a specific term from the passage: when was this specific kind of trial used? Let’s start by finding that term in the passage.