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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

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    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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Craft and Structure · Lesson 3

Purpose, point of view, and tone

These questions ask about the person behind the words. Point of view can mean who tells the story (a first-person narrator who says "I," a narrator outside the story, an adult looking back) or what the author thinks about the topic. Purpose asks why the author included something. Tone asks what attitude the words show: admiring, doubtful, amused, and so on.

Find evaluation words. Most of an informational passage just reports, but a few words show judgment: surprising, rewards, useful, not without problems. A sentence that starts with Still or Even so after a list of drawbacks usually tells you the author's overall view.

Authors of these passages are often balanced. Correct answers tend to be measured ("supportive, while noting limits"), and wrong answers tend to be extreme ("completely opposed," "the only sensible way") or to claim the author has no view at all when evaluation words are present.

Clues to point of view and attitude
Clue in the passageWhat it tells you
I, my, we in a storyFirst-person narrator who takes part in the events
Years later, now, back thenAn older narrator looking back on the past
Still or Even so after drawbacksThe author's overall view is usually favorable
rewards, useful, remarkablePositive judgment, so not a neutral author
has limits, not without problemsThe author admits weaknesses; look for a balanced choice

Worked example Easy

My grandmother kept her sewing machine in the coldest room of the house, a narrow porch with windows on three sides. The summer I turned fifteen, she decided I would learn to use it, and I decided, privately, that I would not.

For the first week I sat beside her with my arms folded while she threaded the needle in a series of quick, practiced loops. She never asked whether I was paying attention. She simply narrated, the way some people hum: "Up through the guide, down around the tension disk, back up to the lever." I told myself I wasn't listening.

Then one afternoon she left for the market, and the hem of my favorite jeans came loose. I stared at the machine for a long time. When I finally sat down, my hands moved before I could stop them (up through the guide, down around the disk), and the words came with them, in her voice.

The seam I sewed that day wandered like a creek. I kept the jeans anyway. Years later, when friends ask how I learned to sew, I tell them I never had a single lesson. It is the kind of fib my grandmother would have enjoyed.

The passage is told from the point of view of:

  1. a teenager describing events while they are happening
  2. the grandmother explaining how she taught her grandchild
  3. an outside observer watching the family from a distance
  4. an adult looking back on a summer from years earlierAnswer

How to solve it

  1. Look for pronouns: the narrator says I and my grandmother, so this is a first-person narrator, not the grandmother or an outsider.
  2. Look for time words: "The summer I turned fifteen" and "Years later" show the events are being remembered.
  3. Choose the option that combines both clues: an adult looking back.

Why each choice is right or wrong

  • A. Incorrect. A teenager describing events while they are happening is ruled out by the last paragraph, which jumps to "Years later, when friends ask how I learned to sew."
  • B. Incorrect. The grandmother explaining how she taught is ruled out because the narrator speaks about "my grandmother," so the grandmother is a character, not the teller.
  • C. Incorrect. An outside observer watching the family does not fit a narrator who says "I" and describes a private decision: "I decided, privately, that I would not."
  • D. Correct. The narrator says "The summer I turned fifteen" and later "Years later, when friends ask how I learned to sew," so this is an adult looking back on a summer from years earlier.

Worked example Medium

Before computers could shade a map in seconds, mapmakers faced a stubborn problem: how do you show the shape of mountains on a flat sheet of paper? One early answer was the hachure, a short line drawn in the direction a slope runs downhill. Packed closely together, hachures made steep slopes look dark; spaced widely, they made gentle slopes look pale.

The method demanded enormous patience. A single sheet covering a mountain range could hold tens of thousands of hand-drawn strokes, and one careless line could suggest a cliff where none existed. Some engravers spent years on a single region.

Yet hachures had a weakness that no amount of skill could fix. Because they recorded steepness rather than height, a reader could see that a slope was steep but not how high its summit rose. A small, sharp hill and a towering peak might look nearly alike. Later mapmakers solved this by adding contour lines, which connect points of equal elevation, and many modern maps combine contours with soft shading.

Still, a well-made hachure map rewards a slow look. Its texture resembles an etching more than a diagram, a reminder that mapmaking was once as much a craft as a science.

The author's attitude toward hachure maps is best described as:

  1. dismissive, since contour lines made hachures useless
  2. nostalgic, wishing modern maps used only hachures
  3. admiring of their craft while recognizing a real flawAnswer
  4. neutral, describing the method without judging it

How to solve it

  1. Find the evaluation words: "weakness that no amount of skill could fix" (a criticism) and "rewards a slow look" (praise).
  2. Notice Still at the start of the last paragraph: after the weakness, the author returns to praise, so the overall view is favorable but balanced.
  3. Eliminate the extremes (dismissive, wishing modern maps used only hachures) and the no-opinion choice (neutral).

Why each choice is right or wrong

  • A. Incorrect. Dismissive is contradicted by the last paragraph, where a well-made hachure map "rewards a slow look"; the author never calls hachures useless.
  • B. Incorrect. Wishing modern maps used only hachures is never stated; the author simply notes that many modern maps "combine contours with soft shading" and does not ask for a return to the old method.
  • C. Correct. The author admits "hachures had a weakness that no amount of skill could fix" yet ends, "Still, a well-made hachure map rewards a slow look," calling mapmaking "as much a craft as a science."
  • D. Incorrect. Neutral ignores the judgment words in the last paragraph: a map that "rewards a slow look" and resembles "an etching" is being praised, not just described.

Trap Extreme attitudes

Choices with strong words such as only, completely, useless, or proves are rarely right, because ACT authors usually weigh both sides. If the passage has even one sentence admitting a limit, a choice saying the author is wholly enthusiastic is wrong. If the author clearly praises the subject, neutral is wrong and dismissive usually is too.

Trap Then versus now in a narrative

An adult narrator may describe how they felt as a teenager. Don't confuse the younger self's feelings with the narrator's view today. In the sewing passage, the fifteen-year-old "decided, privately, that I would not" learn, while the adult calls the claim of never having a lesson "the kind of fib my grandmother would have enjoyed." Check which time the question asks about.

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