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12 Practice Tests for the SAT
Practice Test Three Answers and Explanations
of scope; the passage indicates that Hershey learned to
use quality ingredients from the caramel manufacturer,
but it does not say that he tried to apply the techniques he
learned there to make chocolate. Choice (D) is extreme;
while the passage suggests that Hershey was successful and
that he was dedicated to the candy industry from a young
age, it does not imply that he could only have succeeded
at candy making. Choice (E) is out of scope; the passage
only begins describing Hershey at age 18 and does not
say whether his interest in making candy originated in early
childhood.
Questions 12-24
The writer of Passage 1 recounts how, when she was
younger, she longed to have something wrong with her in
order to raise herself on the social totem pole. It wasn't until
she was older that she was grateful for a happy childhood.
The narrator of Passage 2 talks about her roommate Jessie,
who dealt with her bipolar disorder by telling everyone
about it.
12. D
Difficulty: High
The first sentence says that her real advantage was the
agent of her uncoolness and that at the time she believed
it was just. We learn from the next few sentences that
it was the narrator's emotional stability that made her
uncool among her friends. From that first sentence, we can
gather that though she once believed it was fair that she
was uncool for being happy, at the time indicates that her
opinion has changed since then.
Choice (A) is out of scope; that first sentence doesn't cover
the understanding of personal motivations. Choice (B) is an
opposite; the narrator has pinpointed the difference between
herself and her friends. Choice (C) is an opposite; the narrator
never says a word of condemnation about her friends'
depression. Choice (D) matches your prediction. Choice (E) is
out of scope; we are given no information about the narrator's
friends' awareness of their effect on others.
13. E
Difficulty: Medium
Be sure to plug the word you select back into the sentence
in place of the unknown word to make sure it sounds right.
Since it was puzzling that an advantage was the agent
of uncoolness, the advantage probably did something
negative, like cause the uncoolness rather than defeat it.
Choice (A) is out of scope; there is no spy in this passage.
Choice (B) is out of scope; it doesn't make sense to say that
something is an active ingredient of uncoolness. Choice (C)
is an opposite; the advantage is the thing that caused the
uncoolness, not destroyed it. Choice (D) is an opposite; the
advantage is not a secret, since at least the narrator's friends
knew about it. Choice (E) makes sense in the sentence.
14. E
Difficulty: High
Some Inference questions simply ask you to restate what
the passage is saying in different words. The narrator says
in the previous sentence that she secretly, desperately
wanted something to be wrong with her so that her friends
would see her with new eyes. This is what she hopes to
accomplish by being deep.
Choice (A) is out of scope; the narrator does not suggest
that she ever became deep in the way she means hereletting
misfortune make her depressed. Choice (B) is an
opposite; the narrator's initial frustration is with never having
had anything terrible happen. Choice (C) is an opposite; her
friends have led her to believe that being depressed is more
profound than being happy. Choice (D) is out of scope;
there is no reference to any spiritual matters in the passage.
Choice (E) works with your prediction.
15. c
Difficulty: Medium
Beware of the trap answer that is the most common
definition of a word! The author says she was impressed
by the folly of her thinking, then describes how a friend
made her understand that she was thinking about it wrong.
Impressed by must mean that she was shown the folly of
her thinking.
Choice (A) is an opposite; although this is the common
definition of impressed, in this case the narrator comes
to a negative conclusion about her thinking. Choice (B) is
extreme; she came to these conclusions of her own free
will, not by force. Choice (C) fits your prediction and makes
sense when read back into the sentence. Choice (D) is an
opposite; she was shown the folly of her thinking, which is
not a positive thing. Choice (E) is out of scope; whether she
was surprised is not discussed.