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Using Your Question-and-Answer Service (QAS) Report
This booklet contains the SAT® you took in May 2009, starting with all the essay prompts given in May, including the one you answered. It also includes scoring information. If the SAT you took included an unscored “equating” section, this booklet will not include that section.
Reviewing Your SAT Results
To make the best use of your personalized QAS report, we suggest that you:
• Read each question in the booklet, then check the report for the type of question, the correct answer, how you answered it, and the difficulty level.
• Analyze test questions you answered incorrectly to understand why your answer was incorrect. Check to see whether you might have misread the question or mismarked the answer.
• Keep track of how you did on the different types of questions (as labeled on your QAS report), either by using the table below or by printing your online score report at www. collegeboard. com/maysat. This can help you understand your academic strengths and identify areas for improvement.
SectionType of QuestionNumber
CorrectNumber IncorrectNumber Omitted
Critical ReadingC Sentence completion
R Passage-based reading
MathematicsN Number and operations
A Algebra and functions
G Geometry and measurement
D Data analysis, statistics, and probability
Writing Multiple-ChoiceS Improving sentences
E Identifying sentence errors
P Improving paragraphs
Reviewing Your Essay
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Scoring Your Test
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Practicing to Take the SAT Again
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Now that you’re familiar with the test, you’re more prepared for the kinds of questions on the SAT. You’re also likely to be more comfortable with the test-taking process, including the time limits. On average, students who take the SAT a second time increase their combined critical reading, mathematics, and writing scores by about 40 points.
ESSAY
Time — 25 minutes
The essay gives you an opportunity to show how effectively you can develop and express ideas. You should, therefore, take care to develop your point of view, present your ideas logically and clearly, and use language precisely.
Your essay must be written on the lines provided on your answer sheet—you will receive no other paper on which to write. You will have enough space if you write on every line, avoid wide margins, and keep your handwriting to a reasonable size. Remember that people who are not familiar with your handwriting will read what you write. Try to write or print so that what you are writing is legible to those readers.
Important Reminders:
• A pencil is required for the essay. An essay written in ink will receive a score of zero.
• Do not write your essay in your test book. You will receive credit only for what you write on your answer sheet.
• An off-topic essay will receive a score of zero.
• If your essay does not reflect your original and individual work, your test scores may be canceled.
You have twenty-five minutes to write an essay on the topic assigned below.
Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.
There are good reasons to pay attention to people who are older or more experienced than we are, even if their opinions on important issues are very different from ours. Of course, not every person older than us is worth learning from, while many young people are. But if the only people we listen to are our age and are likely to see things the same way we do, we will miss out on something important.
Assignment: Should we pay more attention to people who are older and more experienced than we are? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.
BEGIN WRITING YOUR ESSAY ON PAGE 2 OF THE ANSWER SHEET.
ESSAY
Time — 25 minutes
The essay gives you an opportunity to show how effectively you can develop and express ideas. You should, therefore take care to develop your point of view, present your ideas logically and clearly, and use language precisely.
Your essay must be written on the lines provided on your answer sheet—you will receive no other paper on which to write. You will have enough space if you write on every line, avoid wide margins, and keep your handwriting to a reasonable size. Remember that people who are not familiar with your handwriting will read what you write. Try to write or print so that what you are writing is legible to those readers.
Important Reminders:
• A pencil is required for the essay. An essay written in ink will receive a score of zero.
• Do not write your essay in your test book. You will receive credit only for what you write on your answer sheet.
• An off-topic essay will receive a score of zero.
• If your essay does not reflect your original and individual work, your test scores may be canceled.
You have twenty-five minutes to write an essay on the topic assigned below.
Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.
Good decision making generally requires people to think carefully and logically and to pay attention to practical details. However, people who depend on their feelings and emotions to make important decisions are not likely to spend hours gathering information, making lists, considering ail possible outcomes, and so forth. When comparing the advantages or disadvantages of one course of action to another, these people ask themselves, “What do my feelings tell me?”
Assignment: Should people let their feelings guide them when they make important decisions? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.
BEGIN WRITING YOUR ESSAY ON PAGE 2 OF THE ANSWER SHEET.
ESSAY
Time — 25 minutes
The essay gives you an opportunity to show how effectively you can develop and express ideas. You should, therefore take care to develop your point of view, present your ideas logically and clearly, and use language precisely.
Your essay must be written on the lines provided on your answer sheet—you will receive no other paper on which to write. You will have enough space if you write on every line, avoid wide margins, and keep your handwriting to a reasonable size. Remember that people who are not familiar with your handwriting will read what you write. Try to write or print so that what you are writing is legible to those readers.
Important Reminders:
• A pencil is required for the essay. An essay written in ink will receive a score of zero.
• Do not write your essay in your test book. You will receive credit only for what you write on your answer sheet.
• An off-topic essay will receive a score of zero.
• If your essay does not reflect your original and individual work, your test scores may be canceled.
You have twenty-five minutes to write an essay on the topic assigned below.
Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.
Thanks to great advancements in technology, we live today in a world in which knowledge is more readily available to greater numbers of people than ever before in history. Having more and better technology, however, has not made people wiser or more understanding. Indeed, people are so overloaded with information today that they have become less, rather than more, able to make sense of the world around them than our ancestors ever were.
Assignment: Has today’s abundance of information only made it more difficult for us to understand the world around us? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.
BEGIN WRITING YOUR ESSAY ON PAGE 2 OF THE ANSWER SHEET.
ESSAY
Time — 25 minutes
The essay gives you an opportunity to show how effectively you can develop and express ideas. You should, therefore, take care to develop your point of view, present your ideas logically and clearly, and use language precisely.
Your essay must be written on the lines provided on your answer sheet—you will receive no other paper on which to write. You will have enough space if you write on every line, avoid wide margins, and keep your handwriting to a reasonable size. Remember that people who are not familiar with your handwriting will read what you write. Try to write or print so that what you are writing is legible to those readers.
Important Reminders:
• A pencil is required for the essay. An essay written in ink will receive a score of zero.
• Do not write your essay in your test book. You will receive credit only for what you write on your answer sheet.
• An off-topic essay will receive a score of zero.
• If your essay does not reflect your original and individual work, your test scores may be canceled.
You have twenty-five minutes to write an essay on the topi assigned below.
Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.
People define themselves by work, by what they “do.” When one person asks another. “What do you do?” the answer always refers to a job or profession: “I'm a doctor, an accountant, a farmer.” I've often wondered what would happen if we changed the question to, “Who are you?” or, “What kind of person are you?” or even, “What do you do for fun?”
Adapted from Stephan Rechtschaffen, Time Shifting
Assignment: Are people best defined by what they do? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.
BEGIN WRITING YOUR ESSAY ON PAGE 2 OF THE ANSWER SHEET.
SECTION 3
Time — 25 minutes
20 Questions
Turn to Section 3 (page 4) of your answer sheet to answer the questions in this section.
Directions: For this section, solve each problem and decide which is the best of the choices given. Fill in the corresponding circle on the answer sheet. You may use any available space for scratch work.
Notes1. The use of a calculator is permitted.
2. All numbers used are real numbers.
3. Figures that accompany problems in this test are intended to provide information useful in solving the problems.
They are drawn as accurately as possible EXCEPT when it is stated in a specific problem that the figure is not drawn to scale. All figures lie in a plane unless otherwise indicated.
4. Unless otherwise specified, the domain of any function f is assumed to be the set of all real numbers x for which f(x) is a real number.
Reference Information The number of degrees of arc in a circle is 360. The sum of the measures in degrees of the angles of a triangle is 180. 1. If 3x = 6, what is the value of 6x + 5 ? (A) 11 (B) 12 (C) 17 (D) 18 (E) 23 答案：C 2. If there are 12 cookies in a box and 12 boxes in a carton, how many cookies are in 25 cartons? (A) 49 (B) 144 (C) 169 (D) 300 (E) 3,600 答案：E 3. On the cube above, the distance from P to Q is the same as the distance from Q to which of the following points? (A) A (B) B (C) C (D) D (E) E 答案：A 4. The average life span of a gorilla is g years. If the average life span of a lion is as long as a gorilla's, which of the following expressions represents a lion's average life span in terms of g? (A) g (B) g (C) (D) (E) 答案：B 12,8,6… 5. In the sequence above, the first term is 12 and each term after the first is 2 more than half the previous term. What is the fifth term of the sequence? (A) 5.25 (B) 5 (C) 4.75 (D) 4.5 (E) 4 答案：D 6. If one of the figures above is selected at random, what is the probability that the number of vertices in the figure will be greater than 5? (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) 答案：A NUMBER OF EARTHQUAKES PER YEAR Richter Scale IntensityNumber of Earthquakes 8.0 － 8.41 7.5－7.93 7.0 － 7.415 6.5－6.956 6.0－6.4210 7. The table above shows the number of earthquakes of intensities From 6.0 to 8.4 on the Richter scale expected to occur worldwide per year. Based on this table, which of the following is the total number of earthquakes of intensities from 6.0 to 7.4, inclusive, expected to occur worldwide in the next two years? (A) 19 (B) 38 (C) 281 (D) 562 (E) 600 答案：D 8. In the figure above, ∥ and ∥ . If point D is on line segment , what is the value of ? (A)69 (B)81 (C)85 (D)101 (E)116 答案：D 9. If a and b are positive odd integers, which of the following must be a positive odd integer? (A) a + b (B) a－b (C) 2a＋b (D) 2a－b (E) 答案：C 10. An electrician is testing 4 different wires. For each test, the electrician chooses 2 of the wires and connects them. What is the least number of tests that must be done so that every possible pair of wires is tested? (A) 3 (B) 6 (C) 8 (D) 12 (E) 16 答案：B 11. Rectangle and triangle. XYZ above have equal areas. If the length of is 14, what is the length of ? (A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 6 (D) 7 (E) 8 答案：B 12. Which of the lettered points on the number line above corresponds to the value of the product xy? (A) A (B) B (C) C (D) D (E) E 答案：C 13. The point P(a,b), where a and b are nonzero numbers, is reflected across the y-axis to a point Q, Then point Q is reflected across the x-axis to a point S. In terms of a and b, what is the sum of the coordinates of point S? (A) －(a＋b) (B) －a＋b (C) a－b (D) a＋b (E) 2(a＋b) 答案：A 14. The figure above shows the graph of the function f. Which of the following is greater than f(－3)? (A) f(－6) (B) f(－4) (C) f(0) (D) f(3) (E) f(5) 答案：E 15. If (x+3)2 = k, what does x2+6x equal in terms of k ? (A) k＋9 (B) k＋3 (C) k－3 (D) k－6 (E) k－9 答案：E 16. If xy = x+y and y＞2, which of the following must be true about x ? (A) x = y (B) x = 0 (C) x = l (D) 0＜x＜l (E) 1＜x＜2 答案：E 17. A certain type of bronze is made by combining copper and tin so that the ratio of copper to tin is 19 to 1 by weight. How many pounds of tin are needed to make a 380-pound statue from this type of bronze? (A) 18 (B) 19 (C) 20 (D) 360 (E) 361 答案：B 18. If y = 2x, which of the following expressions is equivalent to 4x－2x+1 for all positive integer values of x? (A) 2y－2 (B) y2 (C) y2－y (D) y2－2y (E) y2＋2y 答案：D 19. The function f has the property that f(a) = f(b) for all numbers a and b. What is the graph of y = f(x) in the xy-plane? (A) A line with slope 0 (B) A line with slope 1 (C) A circle with center (0, 0) (D) A semicircle with center (0, 0) (E) A parabola symmetric about the y-axis 答案：A 20. The length of a side of equilateral triangle ABC above is 6. D, E, and F are the midpoints of , , and , respectively. A, B, and C are the centers of the circles that contain arcs , , and , respectively. What is the perimeter of the shaded region? (A) 9－ (B) 9 (C) 3 (D) 4 －3 (E) 9＋ 答案：C SECTION 4 Time — 25 minutes 35 Questions Turn to Section 4 (page 5) of your answer sheet to answer the questions in this section.
Directions: For each question in this section, select the best answer from among the choices given and fill in the corresponding circle on the answer sheet.
The following sentences test correctness and effectiveness of expression. Part of each sentence or the entire sentence is underlined; beneath each sentence are five ways of phrasing the underlined material. Choice A repeats the original phrasing; the other four choices are different. If you think the original phrasing produces a better sentence than any of the alternatives, select choice A; if not, select one of the other choices. In making your selection, follow the requirements of standard written English; that is, pay attention to grammar, choice of words, sentence construction, and punctuation. Your selection should result in the most effective sentence—clear and precise, without awkwardness or ambiguity. EXAMPLE: Laura Ingalls Wilder published her first book and she was sixty-five years old then. (A) and she was sixty-five years old then (B) when she was sixty-five (C) at age sixty-five years old (D) upon the reaching of sixty-five years (E) at the time when she was sixty-five A ● C D E 1. Recent evidence suggests that dark energy, a mysterious repulsive force that causes the universe to expand, it has been present for most of the universe's history. (A) it has (B) it had (C) this has (D) has (E) having 答案：D 2. One of only a few venomous mammals, the slow loris coats the fur of its young offspring with toxic saliva, which it protects them from predators. (A) saliva, which it protects them (B) saliva, it protects them (C) saliva to protect them (D) saliva for protecting them (E) saliva, they are protected 答案：C 3. Nutritionists suggest that before deciding to drastically change your diet, a person should consult one's physician. (A) your diet, a person should consult one's physician (B) your diet, you should consult your physician (C) one's diet, you should consult your physician (D) their diet, people should consult his or her physician (E) their diet, consult a physician 答案：B 4. Biologists working to rescue the giant condor from extinction uses radio telemetry and satellite signals to track banded birds. (A) uses radio telemetry and satellite signals to track (B) using radio telemetry and satellite signals to track (C) use radio telemetry and satellite signals to track (D) to track, by use of radio telemetry and satellite signals, (E) tracking, using radio telemetry and satellite signals, 答案：C 5. Iron, the metal most necessary for modem industry, is more often made into an alloy than used in its pure form. (A) is more often made into an alloy than used (B) is more often made into an alloy than using it (C) is more often made into an alloy rather than use it (D) which is more often made into an alloy than it
Reference Information The number of degrees of arc in a circle is 360. The sum of the measures in degrees of the angles of a triangle is 180. 1. If 3x = 6, what is the value of 6x + 5 ? (A) 11 (B) 12 (C) 17 (D) 18 (E) 23 答案：C 2. If there are 12 cookies in a box and 12 boxes in a carton, how many cookies are in 25 cartons? (A) 49 (B) 144 (C) 169 (D) 300 (E) 3,600 答案：E 3. On the cube above, the distance from P to Q is the same as the distance from Q to which of the following points? (A) A (B) B (C) C (D) D (E) E 答案：A 4. The average life span of a gorilla is g years. If the average life span of a lion is as long as a gorilla's, which of the following expressions represents a lion's average life span in terms of g? (A) g (B) g (C) (D) (E) 答案：B 12,8,6… 5. In the sequence above, the first term is 12 and each term after the first is 2 more than half the previous term. What is the fifth term of the sequence? (A) 5.25 (B) 5 (C) 4.75 (D) 4.5 (E) 4 答案：D 6. If one of the figures above is selected at random, what is the probability that the number of vertices in the figure will be greater than 5? (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) 答案：A NUMBER OF EARTHQUAKES PER YEAR Richter Scale IntensityNumber of Earthquakes 8.0 － 8.41 7.5－7.93 7.0 － 7.415 6.5－6.956 6.0－6.4210 7. The table above shows the number of earthquakes of intensities From 6.0 to 8.4 on the Richter scale expected to occur worldwide per year. Based on this table, which of the following is the total number of earthquakes of intensities from 6.0 to 7.4, inclusive, expected to occur worldwide in the next two years? (A) 19 (B) 38 (C) 281 (D) 562 (E) 600 答案：D 8. In the figure above, ∥ and ∥ . If point D is on line segment , what is the value of ? (A)69 (B)81 (C)85 (D)101 (E)116 答案：D 9. If a and b are positive odd integers, which of the following must be a positive odd integer? (A) a + b (B) a－b (C) 2a＋b (D) 2a－b (E) 答案：C 10. An electrician is testing 4 different wires. For each test, the electrician chooses 2 of the wires and connects them. What is the least number of tests that must be done so that every possible pair of wires is tested? (A) 3 (B) 6 (C) 8 (D) 12 (E) 16 答案：B 11. Rectangle and triangle. XYZ above have equal areas. If the length of is 14, what is the length of ? (A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 6 (D) 7 (E) 8 答案：B 12. Which of the lettered points on the number line above corresponds to the value of the product xy? (A) A (B) B (C) C (D) D (E) E 答案：C 13. The point P(a,b), where a and b are nonzero numbers, is reflected across the y-axis to a point Q, Then point Q is reflected across the x-axis to a point S. In terms of a and b, what is the sum of the coordinates of point S? (A) －(a＋b) (B) －a＋b (C) a－b (D) a＋b (E) 2(a＋b) 答案：A 14. The figure above shows the graph of the function f. Which of the following is greater than f(－3)? (A) f(－6) (B) f(－4) (C) f(0) (D) f(3) (E) f(5) 答案：E 15. If (x+3)2 = k, what does x2+6x equal in terms of k ? (A) k＋9 (B) k＋3 (C) k－3 (D) k－6 (E) k－9 答案：E 16. If xy = x+y and y＞2, which of the following must be true about x ? (A) x = y (B) x = 0 (C) x = l (D) 0＜x＜l (E) 1＜x＜2 答案：E 17. A certain type of bronze is made by combining copper and tin so that the ratio of copper to tin is 19 to 1 by weight. How many pounds of tin are needed to make a 380-pound statue from this type of bronze? (A) 18 (B) 19 (C) 20 (D) 360 (E) 361 答案：B 18. If y = 2x, which of the following expressions is equivalent to 4x－2x+1 for all positive integer values of x? (A) 2y－2 (B) y2 (C) y2－y (D) y2－2y (E) y2＋2y 答案：D 19. The function f has the property that f(a) = f(b) for all numbers a and b. What is the graph of y = f(x) in the xy-plane? (A) A line with slope 0 (B) A line with slope 1 (C) A circle with center (0, 0) (D) A semicircle with center (0, 0) (E) A parabola symmetric about the y-axis 答案：A 20. The length of a side of equilateral triangle ABC above is 6. D, E, and F are the midpoints of , , and , respectively. A, B, and C are the centers of the circles that contain arcs , , and , respectively. What is the perimeter of the shaded region? (A) 9－ (B) 9 (C) 3 (D) 4 －3 (E) 9＋ 答案：C SECTION 4 Time — 25 minutes 35 Questions Turn to Section 4 (page 5) of your answer sheet to answer the questions in this section.
Directions: For each question in this section, select the best answer from among the choices given and fill in the corresponding circle on the answer sheet.
The following sentences test correctness and effectiveness of expression. Part of each sentence or the entire sentence is underlined; beneath each sentence are five ways of phrasing the underlined material. Choice A repeats the original phrasing; the other four choices are different. If you think the original phrasing produces a better sentence than any of the alternatives, select choice A; if not, select one of the other choices. In making your selection, follow the requirements of standard written English; that is, pay attention to grammar, choice of words, sentence construction, and punctuation. Your selection should result in the most effective sentence—clear and precise, without awkwardness or ambiguity. EXAMPLE: Laura Ingalls Wilder published her first book and she was sixty-five years old then. (A) and she was sixty-five years old then (B) when she was sixty-five (C) at age sixty-five years old (D) upon the reaching of sixty-five years (E) at the time when she was sixty-five A ● C D E 1. Recent evidence suggests that dark energy, a mysterious repulsive force that causes the universe to expand, it has been present for most of the universe's history. (A) it has (B) it had (C) this has (D) has (E) having 答案：D 2. One of only a few venomous mammals, the slow loris coats the fur of its young offspring with toxic saliva, which it protects them from predators. (A) saliva, which it protects them (B) saliva, it protects them (C) saliva to protect them (D) saliva for protecting them (E) saliva, they are protected 答案：C 3. Nutritionists suggest that before deciding to drastically change your diet, a person should consult one's physician. (A) your diet, a person should consult one's physician (B) your diet, you should consult your physician (C) one's diet, you should consult your physician (D) their diet, people should consult his or her physician (E) their diet, consult a physician 答案：B 4. Biologists working to rescue the giant condor from extinction uses radio telemetry and satellite signals to track banded birds. (A) uses radio telemetry and satellite signals to track (B) using radio telemetry and satellite signals to track (C) use radio telemetry and satellite signals to track (D) to track, by use of radio telemetry and satellite signals, (E) tracking, using radio telemetry and satellite signals, 答案：C 5. Iron, the metal most necessary for modem industry, is more often made into an alloy than used in its pure form. (A) is more often made into an alloy than used (B) is more often made into an alloy than using it (C) is more often made into an alloy rather than use it (D) which is more often made into an alloy than it