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MathProblem-Solving and Data AnalysisHard

A store raises the price of a jacket by 20%. Later, it lowers the new price by 20%. The final price is what percent of the original price?

A80%
B96%Correct
C100%The trap
D104%

Check with $100: $100then$120then$96

  1. Turn each change into a multiplier.

    Up 20% means × 1.20. Down 20% means × 0.80.

  2. Apply them in order.

    1.20 × 0.80 = 0.96

  3. Read the answer.

    The final price is 96% of the original. That’s B.

  4. Why not 100%?

    The 20% cut is taken from the higher price, so it removes more than the 20% increase added.

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98 questions across four modules, in the same order as the digital SAT: Reading & Writing Module 1 and Module 2 (27 questions each), a 10-minute break, then Math Module 1 and Module 2 (22 questions each). On official timing that’s 2 hr 14 min of testing. You get estimated section scores and a total at the end.

Yes. In the standard full-length tests, Module 2 of each section is the harder version if you get 60% or more of Module 1 right, and the easier version if you don’t. Challenge tests are built from harder material in every module.

Official timing, extended 1.5× time, or untimed, on every test, including the free ones. Extended time allows 48 minutes for each Reading & Writing module and about 52 for each Math module. Untimed removes the clock so you can focus on accuracy.

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Paired Passages · Lesson 1

Read each passage on its own first

A paired set gives you two shorter passages, labeled Passage A and Passage B, on the same topic. The questions often follow the passages in order (the plan below still works if they don't): first some about Passage A only, then some about Passage B only, then some that ask about both.

That order suggests a plan. Read Passage A, then answer the Passage A questions. Read Passage B, then answer the Passage B questions. Only then tackle the questions about both. Each passage stays fresh while you answer its questions, and you never mix up which author said what.

As you finish each passage, make a quick mental note (or a few words on scratch paper) with three parts: who is speaking, what they claim, and what support they give. Those notes are exactly what the comparison questions will ask for later.

A one-passage question works like any other Reading question: the answer is in that passage. The special trap here is a choice that is true of the other passage. Before you pick, check that your answer comes from the passage the question names.

A quick map of one passage
AskWrite downWhy it helps
Who is speaking?A teacher, a scientist, a narrator looking backPoint of view questions and "how would this author respond" questions
What is the claim?One sentence in your own wordsMain idea questions and every comparison question
What is the support?An example, an experience, a reasonDetail and purpose questions
How sure is the author?Firm, mixed, or open to the other sideTone questions and choices with extreme wording

Worked example Easy

Passage A

For twenty years I have taught piano to beginners, and the most common question parents ask me is how long their child should practice. My answer surprises them: not long, but often. A student who sits at the piano for fifteen minutes every day will almost always move ahead faster than one who plays for two hours every Saturday.

The reason is that learning a physical skill continues after the practice ends. Between sessions, the hands and the mind seem to settle what they have just tried, so that a passage that felt clumsy on Monday often feels easier on Tuesday before the student has played a note. A weekly session gives that settling only one chance. Daily practice gives it seven. I tell my students to treat the piano like brushing their teeth: a small, ordinary part of every day rather than a big event.

Passage B

When I was a conservatory student, I practiced the cello for hours each day, and for a long time I improved very little. I was faithful about the hours; I was not faithful about my attention. I would play a difficult passage from beginning to end, stumble in the same place, and start again, as if repetition alone would fix the problem. All it did was teach my fingers to stumble more reliably.

What changed my playing was a teacher who asked me, before each session, to name one specific problem I meant to solve. Sometimes I spent forty minutes on four measures. Regular practice matters, of course; a skill left alone for weeks fades. But the clock measures only how long you sat in the chair. It cannot tell you whether you were listening.

In Passage A, the author's main recommendation for beginning piano students is to:

  1. practice for two hours once a week so each session can go deeper.
  2. practice for short periods on as many days as possible.Answer
  3. practice only the passages that feel clumsy until they feel easy.
  4. practice with a parent nearby to keep each session focused.

How to solve it

  1. The stem names Passage A, so look only there.
  2. Find the author's answer to the parents' question: "not long, but often," with an example of "fifteen minutes every day."
  3. Match that to the choices. Short and frequent is choice B. Choice A is the opposite of the claim, and choices C and D use words from the passage without its recommendation.

Why each choice is right or wrong

  • A. Incorrect. Passage A argues against two hours every Saturday; its point is that a weekly session gives settling "only one chance."
  • B. Correct. Passage A says, "My answer surprises them: not long, but often," and recommends "fifteen minutes every day."
  • C. Incorrect. Passage A mentions a clumsy passage only to show that it "often feels easier on Tuesday"; it never says to practice only those passages.
  • D. Incorrect. Parents appear in Passage A only as the people asking the question; the author never says a parent should sit nearby during practice.

Worked example Medium

Passage A

For twenty years I have taught piano to beginners, and the most common question parents ask me is how long their child should practice. My answer surprises them: not long, but often. A student who sits at the piano for fifteen minutes every day will almost always move ahead faster than one who plays for two hours every Saturday.

The reason is that learning a physical skill continues after the practice ends. Between sessions, the hands and the mind seem to settle what they have just tried, so that a passage that felt clumsy on Monday often feels easier on Tuesday before the student has played a note. A weekly session gives that settling only one chance. Daily practice gives it seven. I tell my students to treat the piano like brushing their teeth: a small, ordinary part of every day rather than a big event.

Passage B

When I was a conservatory student, I practiced the cello for hours each day, and for a long time I improved very little. I was faithful about the hours; I was not faithful about my attention. I would play a difficult passage from beginning to end, stumble in the same place, and start again, as if repetition alone would fix the problem. All it did was teach my fingers to stumble more reliably.

What changed my playing was a teacher who asked me, before each session, to name one specific problem I meant to solve. Sometimes I spent forty minutes on four measures. Regular practice matters, of course; a skill left alone for weeks fades. But the clock measures only how long you sat in the chair. It cannot tell you whether you were listening.

In Passage B, the author's statement that repetition taught her "fingers to stumble more reliably" mainly suggests that:

  1. her teacher had assigned music that was too difficult for her level.
  2. the cello is harder to learn well than most other instruments.
  3. she had begun practicing fewer hours each day than before.
  4. repeating a passage without fixing the error made the error stronger.Answer

How to solve it

  1. The stem names Passage B, so stay in Passage B even though Passage A is also about practice.
  2. Read the sentences around the quotation: she played straight through, stumbled "in the same place," and started again.
  3. So repeating without fixing the mistake made her repeat the mistake. That is choice D. Choice C contradicts "for hours each day."

Why each choice is right or wrong

  • A. Incorrect. Passage B never says the music was too difficult; the problem it describes is how she practiced, not what she was assigned.
  • B. Incorrect. Passage B makes no comparison between the cello and other instruments; the point is about her habits, not the instrument.
  • C. Incorrect. Passage B says she practiced "for hours each day" and was "faithful about the hours," so she did not practice fewer hours.
  • D. Correct. She would "stumble in the same place, and start again, as if repetition alone would fix the problem. All it did was teach my fingers to stumble more reliably."

Trap The right idea from the wrong passage

Both passages share a topic, so many details sound like they could belong to either one. A choice may be a perfectly true statement about Passage B when the question asks about Passage A. Before you commit, find the line in the passage the question names.

Trap Reading the second passage into the first

After you read both passages, it is easy to remember Passage A as if it already answered Passage B. Passage A's piano teacher never discusses attention; that idea belongs only to Passage B. For a one-passage question, judge that passage alone.

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