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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: $100→then$120→then$96
Turn each change into a multiplier.
Up 20% means × 1.20. Down 20% means × 0.80.
Apply them in order.
1.20 × 0.80 = 0.96
Read the answer.
The final price is 96% of the original. That’s B.
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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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 use the hardest material throughout.
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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Text Structure and Purpose · Lesson 4
Literary passages: what the writing does
Literary passages get the same three questions: purpose, structure and function. The jobs are different, though. Instead of claims and evidence, look for what the writing does to a character, a place or a mood.
Common jobs in stories and poems: the writing reveals a character's attitude or feelings, often through an action rather than a statement; it shifts the setting or the time; it sets up a contrast between two characters, two places, or how something seems and how it is; it creates a turn, where a character's mood or understanding changes.
Stay close to the page. If a character keeps glancing at the clock during a visit, the text shows impatience or distraction. It doesn't show that she dislikes her host unless the words point to it. Choose the description that matches what the text shows, at the strength it shows it.
For structure in a story or poem, map the shifts: from past to present, from one place to another, from calm to alarm. The right choice names those shifts in the order they come.
Worked example Easy
The following text is from a story written for this course, set in a seaside town in the 1930s.
When the new lighthouse keeper arrived, the townspeople lined the harbor wall to see him. He was younger than anyone expected, with a city coat and a suitcase that looked as if it had never been rained on. Old Mrs. Penhallow looked him up and down, sniffed, and turned back toward her shop without a word. By evening, the whole town had heard that she did not think much of him.
Which choice best describes the function of the underlined sentence in the text as a whole?
- It reveals that the new keeper is nervous about meeting the townspeople.
- It shows one townsperson's low opinion of the new keeper.Answer
- It describes the shop that Mrs. Penhallow runs near the harbor.
- It shifts the story from the harbor to Mrs. Penhallow's shop that evening.
How to solve it
- Look at what Mrs. Penhallow does: she looked him up and down, sniffed, and turned back toward her shop without a word. Those actions, not any stated opinion, are the clue.
- The sentence after confirms the reading: she did not think much of him.
- So the sentence reveals her attitude toward the keeper. Each other choice names the wrong person, a detail the sentence doesn't develop, or a shift that doesn't happen.
Why each choice is right or wrong
- A. Incorrect. The sentence is about Mrs. Penhallow's reaction, not the keeper's feelings. Nothing in the passage says he is nervous.
- B. Correct. Looking him up and down, sniffing and turning away without a word show disapproval, and the last sentence confirms that she did not think much of him.
- C. Incorrect. The shop is mentioned only as the place she turns back toward. The sentence says nothing else about it.
- D. Incorrect. She turns back toward her shop, but the story doesn't follow her there. The last sentence jumps to what the whole town had heard by evening.
Worked example Medium
The following text is from a story written for this course.
As a child, Imogen had thought her grandfather's workshop was the largest room in the world. Its shelves climbed into shadow, and every drawer she opened held something strange: brass hinges, glass eyes for dolls, a clock with no hands. Now, at twenty-six, she stood in the doorway with the key he had left her and saw a narrow, dusty room, barely wide enough for its single workbench. Still, when she pulled open the nearest drawer, the smell of oil and sawdust was exactly as she remembered.
Which choice best describes the overall structure of the text?
- It describes a room as a character sees it now, then recalls how it seemed to her as a child.
- It recalls a character's childhood visits to a room, then explains why her grandfather left her its key.
- It recalls how a room once seemed to a character, shows how it looks to her now, and then reveals her decision to sell it and everything in it.
- It recalls how a room once seemed to a character, shows how it looks to her now, and ends on one thing that has not changed.Answer
How to solve it
- Map the shifts in time. Sentences 1 and 2: childhood, the room as huge and full of strange things. Sentence 3, Now, at twenty-six: the room as small and dusty. Sentence 4, Still: the smell is exactly as she remembered.
- Map: past view, then present view, then one thing unchanged.
- The last choice has all three moves in order. Check each of the others for a wrong order, a missing move or an added one.
Why each choice is right or wrong
- A. Incorrect. The order is reversed. The passage starts in the past (As a child) and moves to the present (Now, at twenty-six). This choice also leaves out the final move, the unchanged smell.
- B. Incorrect. The passage mentions the key he had left her but never explains why he left it. This choice adds a step and drops the contrast between past and present.
- C. Incorrect. The first two moves match, but the passage never mentions selling anything. It ends with her opening a drawer and finding the smell unchanged.
- D. Correct. The passage recalls the room as a child saw it, then shows a narrow, dusty room through her adult eyes, and ends with Still and a smell exactly as she remembered.
Trap Reading in a motive
In fiction, wrong choices often explain more than the text does: why a character acts, what she secretly fears, what will happen next. The right answer stays with what the words show. If a choice gives a reason, a feeling or an event you can't point to, cross it out.
Trap The right job, the wrong person
A choice can name the right kind of job, such as revealing an attitude, but give it to the wrong character or the wrong moment. Check whose attitude the sentence shows, and whether the shift the choice names actually happens in that sentence.
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