Sample Test Questions
Following are sample questions which might appear on both Upper and Lower Level tests. We suggest that you review the questions in order to familiarize yourlf with the SSAT format and types of questions you will find on the actual test.
Writing Sample
25 minutes, one essay respon. Your essay will be ud by admission officers to asss your writing skills. The exerci is not scored by SSAT, but a copy of your essay is forwarded to each school you request as a score recipient.爱德华王子
Directions: Read the following topic carefully. Take a few minutes to think about the topic and organize your thoughts before you begin writing. U the scratch paper and pen provided. Be sure that your handwriting is legible and that you stay within the lines and margins.
Sample Topic: It is better to be safe than sorry.
Assignment: Do you agree or disagree with the topic statement?
Support your position with one or two specific examples from personal experience, the experience of others, current events, history, or literature.
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Multiple Choice Test
Each question is followed by five answer choices. After you have lected your answer, find the row on the answer sheet numbered the same as the question, and fill in the circle with the same letter as your answer. Each question has only one correct answer.
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Reading Comprehension
40 minutes, 40 multiple-choice questions bad on 6-7 reading passages
This ction measures your ability to read and to understand what you read.
Directions: Read the passage carefully and then answer the questions (1-3) about it. For each question, decide on the basis of the passage which one of the choices best answers the question.
We had had a consuming desire to e a pony rider, but somehow or other all that pasd us streaked by in the night, and so we heard only a whiz and a hail, and the swift phantom was gone.
But now the driver exclaims, "Here he comes!" Every neck is stretched and every eye strained.
Away across the endless dead level of the prairie a black speck appears against the sky. Soon it becomes a hor and rider, rising and falling, sweeping nearer and nearer, and the flutter of hoofs comes faintly to the ear. Another instant a whoop and hurrah from our upper deck, a wave of the rider's hand, but no reply, and man and hor burst past our excited faces and go winging away like a belated fragment of a storm!
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1. At the driver's call, the people became more
disappointed | eager | frightened |
puzzled | hysterical | |
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2. The people waiting to e the pony rider were most probably
at a hotel | on a grandstand | on a stagecoach |
at a farm | in a theater | |
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3. The land where the people were watching was
flat and treeless | hilly and rocky | dert-like |
farmland | cut by deep crevass | |
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Quantitative
Two ctions, 30 minutes each, 50 questions total
The ctions measure your knowledge of algebra and quantitative concepts.
Directions: Following each problem in this ction, there are five suggested answers. Work each problem in your head or in the space provided (there will be space for scratchwork in your test booklet). Then look at the five suggested answers and decide which is best.
4. According to the graph, who owns the most CD's?
5. If 5 + 9 + __ = 6 + 8 + 1, then __ =
6. If 3/4 of a number is 48, then 1/4 of the same number is
7. What is the perimeter of an equilateral triangle if one side of the triangle has the same length as the side of a square with an area of 25?
8. It costs n dollars to manufacture 1 dozen stuffed animals. At the same rate, how many dollars will it cost to manufacture 30 stuffed animals? 数平行四边形
30n笑颜如花 | 360/n | 2n/5 | 2/5n | 5n/2 |
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9. 2 1/4 % =
0.0025 | 0.0225 | 0.225 | 2.025 | 2.25 |
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10. Which of the following is NOT equal to a whole number?
8 + 4 | 1/8 x 4 | 8/4 | 8 x 1/4 | 8/ 1/8 |
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11. 8 x 3 x 7 x 2 is equal to the product of 24 and
12. The number of people now employed by a certain company is 240, which is 3/5 the number employed five years ago. How many more employees did it have then than it has now?
160 | 360 | 480 | 720 | 特岗报名条件 960爱是永远 |
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13. A recipe for salad dressing calls for a ratio of 3 tablespoons of olive oil for 1 tablespoon of vinegar, but Melanie ud 3 tablespoons of vinegar and 1 of olive oil. How many more tablespoons must she add in order to have the correct proportion?
