10.9 TAA

Character word of the week

• Civility • Polite and courteous behavior towards others in words and

actions.

Moodle • Enroll in the 11th grade Moodle by the end of this week

• This is your 1st TAA grade and must be completed by Friday• See your TAA advisor if you are having trouble

Act vs. SATWhich test is right for you?

SAT ACT

How Questions Appear Order of difficulty No order of difficulty

Score Choice? No Yes

Highest Math LevelAlgebra/Basic Geometry; test booklet supplies all formulas

Trigonometry (only 4 questions); test booklet rarely provides formulas

Skills Heavily Tested Vocabulary and Reading; Math

Grammar and Reading; Math

Penalty For Wrong Answers? Yes NoBased on School Curriculum? Less More

Style of Test Tricky, with many distracters

More straightforward, with fewer distracters

Structure of Test

Verbal: two 30-min. sections, one 15-min. section Math: two-30 min. sections, one 15-min. section Experimental: one 30-min. Verbal or Math section; looks like any other section

English: one 45-min. section Math: one 60-min. section Reading: one 35-min. section Science Reasoning: one 35-min. section Experimental: added to tests on certain dates; clearly added on

When it's Offered

Seven times per year: Late January Late March or early April Early May Early June Mid October Early November Early December

Six times per year: February April June September (in 13 states only) October December

Scoring

200-800 for Math and for Verbal, added together for a composite score; median about 1000

1-36 for each subject, averaged together for a composite score; median about 21

When You Should Register

At least six weeks before the test date

At least four weeks before the test date

For More Information

Educational Testing Service (ETS) (609) 771-7600 www.ets.org The College Board www.collegeboard.com

ACT (319) 337-1000 www.act.org

ACT Test Dates:Register for the ACT online at www.actstudent.org ACT (with writing) - $50.50; Includes reports for you, your high school, and up to four college choices (if valid codes are provided when you register).

• ACT Test Dates• September 21, 2013• October 26, 2013 (EHS)• December 14, 2013• February 8, 2014 (EHS)• April 12, 2014 (EHS)• June 14, 2014 (EHS)

SAT Test Dates:Register for the SAT online at www.collegeboard.org SAT - $50.00; includes reports for you, your high school and up to four college choices (if valid codes are provided when you register)

• SAT Test Dates• October 5, 2013 (EHS)• November 2, 2013 • December 7, 2013 (EHS)• January 25, 2014 (EHS)• March 8, 2014 (EHS)• May 3, 2014• June 7, 2014 (EHS)

SAT Practice Math Question

A special lottery is to be held to select the student who will live in the only deluxe room in a dormitory. There are seniors, juniors, and sophomores who applied. Each senior's name is placed in the lottery times; each junior's name, times; and each sophomore's name, time. What is the probability that a senior's name will be chosen?A. 1/8 B. 2/9C. 2/7D. 3/8E. 1/2

Answer: D• To determine the probability that a senior's name will be

chosen, you must determine the total number of seniors' names that are in the lottery and divide this number by the total number of names in the lottery. Since each senior's name is placed in the lottery times, there are seniors' names. Likewise, there are juniors' names and sophomores' names in the lottery. The probability that a senior's name will be chosen is .

SAT• The projected sales volume of a video game cartridge is given

by the function where is the number of cartridges sold, in thousands; is the price per cartridge, in dollars; and is a constant. If according to the projections, cartridges are sold at per cartridge, how many cartridges will be sold at per cartridge

• A. 20,000• B. 50,000• C. 60,000• D. 150,000• E. 200,000

Answer: C

SAT• Because King Philip's desire to make Spain the dominant

power in sixteenth-century Europe ran counter to Queen Elizabeth's insistence on autonomy for England, ------- was -------.

• A. reconciliation . . Assured• B. warfare . . Avoidable• C. ruination . . Impossible• D. conflict . . Inevitable• E. diplomacy . . simple

Answer: D• The word "because" indicates that the information in the first

part of the sentence (the part before the comma) explains the reason for the situation described in the second part. The first part states that what King Philip wanted (domination for Spain) "ran counter to" what Queen Elizabeth wanted (independence for England). Choice (D) logically completes the sentence: Given that there was such a fundamental disagreement between the two monarchs, "conflict" would likely be "inevitable," or unavoidable

ACT Math questions • A car averages 27 miles per gallon. If gas costs $4.04 per gallon,

which of the following is closest to how much the gas would cost for this car to travel 2,727 typical miles? • A. $ 44.44• B. $109.08• C. $118.80• D. $408.04• E. $444.40

• When x = 3 and y = 5, by how much does the value of 3x2 – 2y exceed the value of 2x2 – 3y ? • A. 4• B. 14• C. 16• D. 20• E. 50

ACT Math answers

• A car averages 27 miles per gallon. If gas costs $4.04 per gallon, which of the following is closest to how much the gas would cost for this car to travel 2,727 typical miles? • Answer- D• If you divide 2,727 miles by 27 miles per gallon you will get the

number of gallons: = 101. Then, multiply the number of gallons by the cost per gallon: 101(4.04) = 408.04. This gives the cost of gas for this car to travel 2,727 typical miles.

• When x = 3 and y = 5, by how much does the value of 3x2 – 2y exceed the value of 2x2 – 3y ? • Answer B• When you use x = 3 and y = 5 in the given expressions, 3x2 – 2y =

3(3)2 – 2(5) = 27 – 10 = 17 and 2x2 – 3y = 2(3)2 – 3(5) = 18 – 15 = 3. Then subtract 3 from 17 to get 14.

ACT Science Questions• Scientist 2• No deep, liquid water ocean exists on Europa. The heat

generated by gravitational tides is quickly lost to space because of Europa's small size, as shown by its very low surface temperature (–160°C). Many of the features on Europa's surface resemble features created by flowing glaciers on Earth. Large amounts of liquid water are not required for the creation of these features. If a thin layer of ice below the surface is much warmer than the surface ice, it may be able to flow and cause cracking and movement of the surface ice. Few meteorite craters are observed because of Europa's very thin atmosphere; surface ice continually sublimes (changes from solid to gas) into this atmosphere, quickly eroding and removing any craters that may have formed.

ACT Science Questions• Scientist 2 explains that ice sublimes to water vapor and

enters Europa's atmosphere. If ultraviolet light then broke those water vapor molecules apart, which of the following gases would one most likely expect to find in Europa's atmosphere as a result of this process? • A. Nitrogen• B. Methane• C. Chlorine• D. Oxygen

ACT Science Answers• Answer: D• Water vapor molecules are composed of hydrogen and

oxygen. The breakdown of these molecules would lead to the production of oxygen (O2) in the atmosphere.

ACT Reading Example• Passage I• PROSE FICTION: This passage is adapted from the novel The Men of Brewster Place by

Gloria Naylor (©1998 by Gloria Naylor).• Clifford Jackson, or Abshu, as he preferred to be

known in the streets, had committed himself severalyears ago to use his talents as a playwright to broadenthe horizons for the young, gifted, and black—which 5 was how he saw every child milling around that darkstreet. As head of the community center he went afterevery existing grant on the city and state level to bringthem puppet shows with the message to avoid drugsand stay in school; and plays in the park such as actors 10 rapping their way through Shakespeare's A MidsummerNight's Dream. Abshu believed there was something inShakespeare for everyone, even the young of BrewsterPlace, and if he broadened their horizons just a littlebit, there might be enough room for some of them to 15slip through and see what the world had waiting. No, itwould not be a perfect world, but definitely one withmore room than they had now.

Reading Example• The point of view from which the passage is told can best be described as that of:

• A. a man looking back on the best years of his life as director of a community center in a strife-ridden neighborhood.

• B. a narrator describing his experiences as they happen, starting with childhood and continuing through his adult years as an advocate for troubled children.

• C. an unidentified narrator describing a man who devoted his life to neighborhood children years after his own difficult childhood.

• D. an admiring relative of a man whose generosity with children was widely respected in the neighborhood where he turned around a declining community center.

• It can reasonably be inferred from the passage that which of the following is a cherished dream that Abshu expects to make a reality in his lifetime? • F. Establishing himself financially so as to be able to bring his original family back under

one roof• G. Seeing the children at the community center shift their interest from sports to the

dramatic arts• H. Building on the success of the community center by opening other centers like it

throughout the state• J. Expanding for some, if not all, of the children the vision they have of themselves and

their futures

Free Practice Questions online• SAT- http://sat.collegeboard.org/practice/• ACT- http://www.actstudent.org/sampletest/