Intro to SAT test.

2. The Scholastic Assessment
Test (SAT) is a standardized
test widely used for college
admissions in the United
States, Turkey and around
the world.

3. The World’s Top 800 Universities

4. About the SAT Test
• Many universities in the world accept SAT Reasoning (That
is SAT 1 with math, writing and reading exam).
• Turkey requires only SAT Reasoning for any faculty and any
university. Only math and reading exams are needed.
• You can take the test multiple times (it is offered 6 times a
year)
• If your SAT score is high enough, you have more options to
go directly to university

5. 5 Things to Know
Masoud Time

6. The SAT (Reasoning) Test
Maths
Reading
Writing

8. Maths
• Questions are of two main types:
• Problem solving - multiple choice (5 answer
choices)
• Student-produced response questions ('grid-ins')

9. Problem Solving
• 1. Of the following, which is greater than ½ ?
A. 2/5
B. 4/7
C. 4/9
D. 5/11
E. 6/13

10. Student Response
1. 145 300 610 1230
In the above sequence every term after the
first is formed by multiplying by x and then
adding y, where x and y are positive integers.
What is the value of x + y?

12. Reading
• There are two types of questions:
• Sentence Completion
• Reading Comprehension
• These questions require a level of vocabulary
that should not be a problem if you have been
in the habit of reading good books throughout
your high school career.

13. Sentence Completion
• 1. Today Wegener's theory is ____ ; however, he
died an outsider treated with ____ by the
scientific establishment.
• A. unsupported - approval
B. dismissed - contempt
C. accepted - approbation
D. unchallenged - disdain
E. unrivalled - reverence

14. Reading Comprehension
• 1. The author implies that the 'professional
schoolmaster' (line 7) has
A. no interest in teaching science
B. thwarted attempts to enliven education
C. aided true learning
D. supported the humanists
E. been a pioneer in both science and
humanities.

16. Writing
• The SAT tests your writing skills in two ways:
• SAT Essay
• SAT Grammar
• The grammar questions are of three types:
– Identification of sentence errors
– Sentence correction
– Editing in context

17. Essay Writing
Time has a doomsday book, on whose pages he is continually recording
illustrious names. But as often as a new name is written there, an old
one disappears. Only a few stand in illuminated characters never to
be effaced.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Assignment:
Are there some heroes who will be remembered forever?
Or are all heroes doomed to be forgotten one day? Plan
your response, and then write an essay to explain your
views on this issue. Be sure to support your position with
specific points and examples. (You may use personal
examples or examples from your reading, observations,
or, knowledge of subjects such as history, literature,
science.)

18. Grammar
• 1. Illiteracy is an enormous problem,A it affectsB millions of
people worldwide,C and is an impediment toD social
progress. No errorE.
• 2. Trying to keep her balance on the icy surface, the last
competitor's ski-tip caught the pole and somersaulted into the
soft snow.
• A. the last competitor's ski-tip caught the pole and
somersaulted into the soft snow.
B. the ski-tip of the last competitor caught the pole and
somersaulted in the soft snow.
C. the last competitor caught the pole with the tip of her ski,
and somersaulted into the soft snow.
D. the last competitor caught the pole with her ski-tip, which
made her somersault into the soft snow.
E. the last competitor somersaulted into the soft snow when
the tip of her ski was caught by the pole.

19. Additional SAT Tests
• The SAT Subject Tests are a series of one-hour
multiple-choice tests in subjects including:
– Literature,
– History,
– Physics,
– Chemistry,
– Biology,
– Mathematics
– and a number of languages.

20. Feza Summer SAT Prep. Course
18th
July – 8th
August
TZS500,000

21. Attention
• ALL – Cultural Festival at Julius
Nyere Hall, this Saturday at
11.30am
• Stage 11 – Next Friday @ 10am –
Graduation rehearsal