12.Practice.Tests.for.the.SAT_2015-2016_1128p

12 Practice Tests for the SAT /
Practice Test Twelve Answers and Explanations
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22. c
Difficulty: High
The author brings up the example of Schumann in order to
show that even the most accomplished woman musician
could be led by societal beliefs to doubt her own ability. In
Schumann, the reader can see just how great the obstacles
were for women who wanted to be creative musicians, (C).
Schumann's achievements were far from typical, so (A) can
be eliminated. Choice (B) is wrong because there is never
any question that there were at least some 19th-century
women who composed music. Choice (D) is a distortion
of the last paragraph's point that Schumann was one of
the first female composers to compose an orchestral work.
Choice (E) isn't supported by anything in the passage.
23. D
Difficulty: Low
Choice (D) is correct because it paraphrases the last
sentence of the fourth paragraph.
There is no evidence in the passage to support any of the
other choices.
24. A
Difficulty: Low
The author describes the art song-the genre considered
appropriate for women and the type of music that women
composers gravitated to out of necessity-in order to
emphasize just how much Schumann defied convention in
composing an orchestral piece. Choice (A) is correct.
No new point of view is ever introduced into the passage,
so (B) is incorrect. Choice (C) is wrong because the art
song is not a type of orchestral work. Choice (D) is out
because the author never criticizes 19th-century women
at all. Choice (E) simply misconstrues the point the author
makes by describing the art song.
SECTION 3
l. D
Difficulty: Low
Strategic Advice: Sometimes the biggest challenge of a
question is not its math but its English: notice here that
you're given data in both minutes and seconds. Avoid trap
choices (such as (B) in this case) by making these units of
measurement consistent.
Getting to the Answer:
--2.fL =
60 sec. 2
2. c
60x = 10
Difficulty: Low
X= _lQ = _l_
60 6
Remember that questions involving ranges of possible
values often require you to use either or both extreme
values-minimum or maximum-to answer correctly. Here,
for example, you need only 80 percent of 40.
Getting to the Answer:
3. D
0.80( 40) = 32
Difficulty: Low
Focus on how one piece of data leads to another. If two
sides are equal, the two angles opposite are equal. Then
only 60 degrees remains for the top angle-which means
that the triangle is equilateral: all three sides and all three
angles are equal.
Getting to the Answer:
4. c
12 + 12 + 12 = 36
Difficulty: Low
Strategic Advice: Often, and especially early in a section,
questions test not so much your ability to conceptualize
advanced math concepts as your ability to quickly and
carefully perform basic operations. Practice such questions
(like this one), and on Test Day you'll move through them
with speed and accuracy. Notice, by the way, that this is
one of those very rare questions in which the logic of the
question itself prevents the testmaker from presenting the
choices in size order, as they are normally presented.