This quiz is designed to measure a tutor's knowledge and familiarity with the Critical Reading and Writing content areas on the SAT. In order to be eligible to tutor SAT critical reading or writing students for Club Z!, prospective tutors must be able to successfully answer the following sample questions from the Z! Prep SAT Diagnostic test. Your local Area Director will determine the minimum threshold for correct answers. Good luck!
Music programs help students enjoy music but not learn to play an instrument
Exposure to a variety of musical influences is the best way to inspire a love of music in children
Small groups are more effective and enjoyable for children than individual lessons
Learning to read music is not an important skill
Children should not be introduced to formal music programs until later in life
Fruitful
Polemical
Expansive
Beneficial
Intense
Fearful.. hailed
Exhausted.. promoted
Exuberant.. sanctified
Prideful.. lauded
Irritated.. derided
Aided.. philanthropy
Abrogated.. piety
Subjugated.. mercantilism
Heralded.. legality
Bush's inventions were not particularly valued by scientists
The scientific community's demand upon Bush were too high
Bush could not generate multiple solutions to a problem
Bush’s ingenuity with science and inventing was not evident in his daily interactions
Scientists who worked with Bush found his research lacking
Rationalize why Bush could not make his inventions profitable
Explain the foundation of Bush's inventiveness and versatility
Exemplify Bush’s lugubrious experimental practices
Suggest that Bush was a misanthrope
Mention the importance of Bush’s childhood laboratory
Discusses programs that choose not to include music while Passage 2 is dismissive of those that do not
Contends that there are some unanswered questions about preschool intervention while Passage 2 indicates that "best practices" are well documented
Is based on research data whereas Passage 2 utilizes only interview and anecdotal analysis
Gives an overview of the recent research relating to preschool programs, whereas Passage 2 describes a specific instance
Concentrates on one specific type of intervention while Passage 2 gives an overall impression
And she was not yet eleven then
Having not reached the age of eleven then
When she was not yet eleven
And not yet eleven then
Not yet eleven at the time
And the choice of a running shoe should be carefully considered
Yet one needs to carefully choose one's shoes
And choose a running shoe carefully
And one should choose a careful running shoe
Because one's shoes need to be considered carefully
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Replace "likewise" with "for example"
Replace "likewise" with "on the other hand"
Delete "likewise"
Replace "likewise" with "while sometimes useful,"
Delete the whole sentence
Some viewers think there should be no ads and others have said there are just enough.
Some viewers think there should be no ads, others have said there are just enough.
Some viewers think there should be no ads; others think there are just enough
Some think there should be no ads, others have said just enough.
Some think ads should be eliminated; others say there are enough.
Children who attend preschool do better socially and academically and are more likely to be financially stable as adults
Increased academic success is correlated with lower rates of welfare dependency
Further studies of preschool programs indicate that they are designed to fit the needs of the children they serve
Some impoverished children who attended preschools were also poor as adults
In a few instances, participation in preschool programs was not shown to decrease the need for grade repetition and special education
Vehicle
Supplementary material
Chemical-like effect
Program
Change agent