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Lower Level Practice Test I Section 1 60 Questions This section consists of two different types of questions. There are directions and a sample question for each type. Each of the following questions consists of one word followed by five words or phrases. You are to select the one word or phrase whose meaning is closest to the word in capital letters. Sample Question: CHILLY: (A) lazy

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70 SSAT Lower Level Practice Test I The following questions ask you to find relationships between words. For each question, select the answer choice that best completes the meaning of the sentence. Sample Question: Kitten is to cat as

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74 SSAT Lnwer Level Practice Test I 3. If all the sides in the polygon in Figure 1 are of USE THIS SPACE FOR FIGURING. equal length and its perimeter is 28, what is the length of one side? Figure 1 4. Each person contributed the same amount toward a gift. If $60 was collectetl, which CANNOT be the amount each gave? GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE.

75 SSAT Lower Level Practice Test I USE THIS SPACE FOR FIGURING. 7 If2=" then. = • 8 48' (A) 30 (B) 32 (C) 35 (D) 38 (E) 40 8. If 5 x 20 x N = 0, then N = (A) 100 (B) 4 (C) l~ (D) 10 (E) 0 9. If N is an odd number, which of the following is an~number? (A) N + 3 (B) N +2 (C) (3 x N) + 2 (D) (2 x N) + 3 (E) (2 x N) + 1 10. In Figure 3, the shaded circles are what fractional part of the whole set of circles? (A) t (B) I "8 (C) "6 I (D) '4I Figure 3 (E) I 3" GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE.

76 SSAT Lower Level Practice Test I Questions 11-12 refer to the graph in Figure 4. USE THIS SPACE FOR FIGURING. 11. How many more history books than science books are there? LIBRARY BOOK COLLECTION Fiction History Biography Science Figure 4

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79 SSAT Lower Level Practice Test I 22. If 5 x (P +Q) = 30 and P is greater than zero, USE THIS SPACE FOR FIGURING. then Q could NOT be (A) 7 (B) 4 (C) 3i 2 (D) o (E) -2 23. To which of the following is 6.06 closest? (A) 61 (B) 7 (C) 6.7 (D) 6.6 (E) 6 24. Which of the following numbers can be written in the fonn (4 x N) + 1 where N is a whole number? (A) 55 (B) 62 (C) 71 (D) 84 (E) 93 25. In the triangle in Figure 7, what is the value of x? (A) 30 (B) 40 3cm~ (C) 45 (D) 60 3cm (E) It cannot be detennined from the infonnation Figure 7 given. STOP IF YOU FINISH BEFORE TIME IS CALLED, YOU MAY CHECK YOUR WORK ON THIS SECTION ONLY. DO NOT TURN TO ANY OTHER SECTION IN THE TEST.

81 SSAT Lower Level Practice Test I SECTION 3 40 Questions Read each passage carefully and then answer the questions about it. For each question, decide on the basis of the passage which one of the choices best answers the question. All matter is made of atoms. Different kinds of atoms can combine to form new substances. The page you are reading is made up of billions of atoms. So are you. An atom is an exceedingly tiny thing. For example, it would take a line of about 200 million hydrogen atoms, the smallest kind of atom, to span the distance of one inch. In the nineteenth century, many scientists thought that atoms were indivisible blobs of matter. Now we know that atoms are far more complicated. We also know that under the right conditions certain atoms can be split into smaller particles. When this happens, energy is given off. In certain circumstances it is possible to capture this energy in the form of heat, then use the heat to make electricity. 1. This passage is primarily about 4. According to the passage, what happens when (A) how matter is made an atom is broken apart? (B) what atoms are like (A) It forms small hydrogen atoms. (C) nineteenth-century scientific discoveries (B) It captures heat. (D) how to generate electricity (C) It turns into electricity. (E) atomic energy heating systems (D) It gives off energy. (E) It creates billions of new atoms. 2. As used in line 3, "exceedingly" means (A) somewhat 5. The author's style is best described as (8) fortunately (C) extremely (D) unexpectedly (E) increasingly (A) (8) (C) (D) dramatic sarcastic mysterious informative 3. It can be inferred from this passage that all of (E) poetic the following statements about atoms are correct EXCEPT: (A) Solids, liquids, and gases are all made of atoms. (8) Atoms are composed of smaller particles. (C) Matter can be converted into energy. (D) Living things are composed of atoms. (E) All atoms are of the same size. GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE.

82 SSAT Lower Level Practice Test I I was born on November 30, 1835, in the village of Florida, Missouri. My parents had moved to Missouri in the thirties; I do not remember just when, for I was not born then and cared nothing for such things. The village contained a hundred people and I increased the population by one percent. It is more than many of the best people in history could have done for a town. There is no record of a person doing as much -not even Shakespeare. Recently someone in Missouri sent me a picture ofthe house I was born in. Heretofore I had always stated that it was a palace but I shall be more guarded now. The village had two streets, each a couple of hundred yards long; the rest of the avenues were lanes, with rail fences and cornfields on either side. Both the streets and the lanes were paved with the same material- tough black mud in wet times, deep dust in dry. Most of the houses were of logs-all of them, indeed, except three or four; these latter were frame ones. There were none of brick and none of stone. There was a log church, with a puncheon floor and slab benches. A puncheon floor is made of logs whose upper surfaces have been chipped flat with an adz. The cracks between the logs were not filled; there was no carpet; consequently, if you dropped anything smaller than a peach it was likely to go through. The church was perched upon short sections of logs, which elevated it two or three feet from the ground. Hogs slept under there, and whenever the dogs got after them during services, the minister had to wait till the disturbance was over. In winter there was always a refreshing breeze up through the puncheon floor; in summer there were fleas enough for all. 6. The house that the author was born in was probably constructed of

83 SSAT Lower Level Practice Test / From 1970, when a 55-mile stretch of Interstate 80 in Wyoming opened, to 1977, more than 1,000 deer were killed as they crossed between their winter and summer homes. Scientists counted deer tracks in the snow and found that 80 percent Line of the deer crossed the highway in a single eight mile stretch. Passageways under the

84 SSAT Lower Level Practice Test I Thefollowing speech was delivered by Susan B. Anthony at her trial in 1873. Friends and fellow-citizens: I stand before you tonight under indictment for the alleged crime of having voted at the last Presidential election [1872], without having a lawful right to vote. It shall be my work this evening to prove to you that in thus voting, I not only committed no crime, but, instead, simply exercised my citizen's rights, guaranteed to me and all United States citizens by the National Constitution. It was we, the people; not we, the White male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves but to the whole people- women as well as men. And it is a downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty, while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them ... - the ballot. ... The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not. Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no State has a right to make any law. or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities. 18. In line 1, Anthony's use of "fellow-citizens" is ironic for which of the following reasons?

85 SSAT Lower Level Practice Test J The Mahto band kept to a certain order when they traveled on the plain. And so Wanagi, the young seer, walked in back of the leader. They assigned this place in the procession of seventy persons to the one who carries the smoldering wood, the source of a cooking fire for these twelve Mahto families upon their arrival at the summer campground. The grandfathers had said that only good hands-hands that never kill- shall hold these smoldering remains of the winter campfire, a symbol of the continuity of the people. And that the Mahto women, when they start their new campfires from these embers, shall offer thanks to Pte -the one and the herd -for Pte, the true meat, shall sustain each generation of Dakota. 23. According to the passage, all of the following are part of the rituals of the Mahto EXCEPT the

86 SSAT Lower Level Practice Test I A wind sways the pines, And below, Not a breath of wild air line Still as the mosses that glow

87 SSAT Lower Level Practice Test I Chopin's own playing was the counterpart of his personality. Every characteristic that could be distinguished in the man was apparent in the pianist-the same precision; the horror of excess and all that is careless and uncontrolled; the same good Line manners and high tone of character, combined with poetic warmth and a romantic

88 SSAT Lower Level Practice Test I I am not sure that I can draw an exact line between wit and humor, but I am positive that humor is the more comfortable and livable quality. Humorous persons, if their gift is genuine, are always agreeable companions and they sit through the eve­ ning best. They have pleasant mouths turned up at the comers. To those comers the great Master of marionettes has fixed the strings and holds them with nimble fingers that twitch them at the slightest jest. But the mouth of a merely witty person is hard and sour until the moment of its discharge. Nor is the flash from a witty person always comforting, whereas a humorous person radiates a general pleasure and is like another candle in the room. 37. According to the author, a humorous person is like

89 SSAT Lower Level Practice Test I SECTION 4 25 Questions Following each problem in this section, there are five suggested answers. Work each problem in your head or in the blank space provided at the right of the page. Then look at the five suggested answers and decide which one is best. ~ Figures that accompany problems in this section are drawn as accurately as possible EXCEPT when it is stated in a specific problem that its figure is not drawn to scale. Sample Problem: 5,413 (A) 586 -4,827 (B) 596 (C) ~ 2. 1,500 -307 =

90 SSAT Lower Level Practice Test I 3. Joe had flags of 22 different countries in his USE THIS SPACE FOR FIGURING. collection. His uncle brought him 8 new flags. Of these, 3 were from countries he already had in his collection. How many flags of different countries did Joe then have? (A) 22 (B) 25 (C) 27 (D) 30 (E) 33 4. If 2 is added to a number, the sum is 14. If the same number is multiplied by 2, the answer is (A) 7 (B) 8 (C) 24 (D) 28 (E) 32 2+4+6 = 5. 1+3+5+7 (A) 2 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 4 5 5 (E) 6 6. At 6 a.m. the temperature was 5 degrees below zero. If it had risen 11 degrees by noon, then the temperature at noon was (A) 16° below zero (B) 6° below zero (C) 5° below zero (D) 6° above zero (E) 16° above zero GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE.

91 SSAT Lower Level Practice Test J 7. According to the graph in Figure 1, Maria spent USE THIS SPACE FOR FIGURING. about how much money on school supplies? HOW MARIA USED (A) $1.00 HER $5 ALLOWANCE Figure 1 8. If N::::: 20, then 1 more than 3 x N is equal to (A) 23

92 SSAT Lower Level Practice Test I 10. Figure 3 shows a fence with posts 10 meters USE THIS SPACE FOR FIGURING. apart. A cow is tied to the center post by a rope 20 meters long. Which best shows the size and shape of the region in which the cow can graze? (B) I I I I C1 t----- 60 meters ---- Figure 3 (C) (E)

93 SSAT Lower Level Practice Test I Figure 4 1 14. If 4 N= 12, then 2 N= (A) 3

94 SSAT Lower Level Practice Test I Questionsl.6:..l.8 refer to the following definition. USE THIS SPACE FOR FIGURING. For all real numbersfandp, rn:: if+ p) + (Ix p). (EXample:~:: (3 + 5) + (3 x 5) =8 + 15.) 16'l61 2 1 :: (A) 3 (B) 8 (C) 12 II. lfj 0 I :: 0 III. jf!71 :: I

95 SSAT Lower Level Practice Test I 19. Betsy raked leaves from 9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. USE THIS SPACE FOR FIGURING. and finished ! of the yard. She wants to finish raking the yard by 6:30 p.m. If she plans to rake at the same rate, what is the latest time that she can start raking the leaves again? (C) (B)m (D)~ (E) GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE.

96 SSAT Lower Level Practice Test I N USE THIS SPACE FOR FIGURING. 22. If 0.39 is about 10 , then N is closest to which of the following?

97 SSAT Lower Level Practice Test I USE THIS SPACE FOR FIGURING. 25 remainder 1 26 17JA 17JB 25. In the problems above, B A::: (A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 16 (D) 18 (E) 24 STOP IF YOU FINISH BEFORE TIME IS CALLED, YOU MAY CHECK YOUR WORK ON THIS SECTION ONLY. DO NOT TURN TO ANY OTHER SECTION IN THE TEST.

190 Secondary School Admission Test Board Lower Level Practice Test I : VERBAL (Section 1) For each question, mark ..; if correct (C), 0 if wrong (W), or - if omitted (0). f-Correct Your C WIO IAnswer Answer ..; o i \I. I C '2. A 3. E '4. B J 5. E :6. DI 7. AI 8. AI I 9. C I i ! 10. B 11. C 12. A I 13. E 14. E 1 15. C 16. D 17. E 18. B 19. E 20. D ! Total # Correct: Total # Wrong: Total # Correct: 4 Total # Correct: Total # Wrong: Total # Wrong: #Wrong+4: # Wrong +4: # Wrong +4: Box 1 Box2: Box 7 -Box 8: Box4 -Box 5: Correct Answer Your Answer C ..; W 0 ° - 21. A J ·22. B I 23. C 24. D 25. B 26. B 27. E 28. C I 29. A I 30. B 31. B i , 32. D I 33. E 34. D 35. A 36. C 37. E , 38. E 39. A 40. B I Correct Answer Your Answer C ..; W 0 0 - 41. D i42. C 43. B 1 44. A , 45. E 46. C 47. D I \48. E 49. B 50. D 51. C 52. A 53. D :54. E 55. C 56. B 57. B 58. E 59. E 60. B I Verbal Raw Score: Verbal Scaled Score: Add Boxes 3,6,9 See Table 1 on page 202.

191 Preparing and Applying for Independent School Admission and the SSAT Lower Level Practice Test I : QUANTITATIVE (Sections 2 and 4) For each question, mark V if correct (C), 0 if wrong (W), or - if omitted (0). Ibtal # Correct: 1 Total # CUl1t:4.:t: 4 Totul it Correct: 7 Total # Wrong: Total # Wrong: # Wrong 74: Total # Wrong: # Wrong 74: Box 1 Box 2: # Wrong 74: Box 7 -Box 8: Box 4 - Box 5: Quantitative Raw Score: Quantitative Scaled Score: Add Boxes 3,6,9 See Table 1 on page 202. Correct Your CI' A",w" , A",,~' , ~ ,Section 2 I ! l.A I 2. B '3. C I 4. C 1 I 1 I I 5.0 1 I ! I :6. B h. A I I 8. E ! 9. A 10.0 11. C I 12.B 1 I 13. E ! 1 I , I I I4.C 15. E I I 16.A I 17.0 I i I Correct ! Your C ~~ Correct i Your C LW ;""": A",w_e_r -r--V---+'_--+- __ , 118. C 21. C I ·22. A '23. E '24. E 125. C Answer Answer V l 0 - I I I 1 9. A 10. E I 1 Ill. C I 1 112.0 1 1 13 . 0 I I i 14. C I i I ! I ~. B i I I I I I ,16. E I I I i '17. B 1 I 1 1 L i 18. A ! I 19. C I 20.0 ! I 1 1 121. E I l22. C ! 1 1 23 . 0 I 1 24. A 1 i '25. C I I i 1 . Section 4 11. B I l

192 Secondary School Admission Test Board Lower Level Practice Test I : READING (Section 3) For each question, mark ..; if correct (C), 0 if wrong (W), or - if omitted (0). Correct Answer Your Answer C ..; W 0 0 - 11. B 2. C .3. E 14. 0 1 5 . 0 1 6. A 7. B 8. 0 9. B 10. E 11. A .12. C 113. C 14.0 I Correct Your C W 0 Correct Your C W 0 Answer Answer ..; 0 - Answer Answer ..; 0 - 15. C .29. E 16. E !30.0 117. B 131. C i 18. A 132. E 1 19 . 0 .33.0 20. A 34. B 21. E 35. A 1 122. C 136. C 23.0 37.0 24. E 38. B 1 25 . C 39. C I 26. B 40. A I 28. B I Total # Correct: Total # Correct: Total # Correct: Total # Wrong: Total # Wrong: Total # Wrong: # Wrong +4: # Wrong +4: # Wrong +4: Box I -Box 2: Box4-Box5: . Box 7 -Box 8: Reading Raw Score: Reading Scaled Score: Add Boxes 3,6,9 See Table 1 on page 202.

202 Secondary School Admission Test Board Interpreting Your Scores When you take the actual SSAT, your scores may differ from those on the sample test. No test gives you a completely accurate measure of your abilities, and you may work better on one day than another. However, if you repeated the test several times, you would get a number of different scores, all within a certain range. This score is said to be your "average" score; the score you would earn if the test could measure your ability with perfect accuracy. The score range within which your "true" score falls is called the Standard Error of Measurement (SEM). The SEM for reading, verbal and quantitative SSAT scores is about twenty-one scaled-score points. You can use the SEM to better understand your SSAT scores. There are about two chances out of three that the score you get would fall within the interval from one SEM below your true score to one SEM above your true score. For example, if your true score is 650, then you would potentially earn a score, if you test on another date, as low as 629 or as high as 671. The. following Tables indicate Lower Level and Upper Level scaled scores corresponding to selected raw scores for each section of the sample testes). Please note, the Quantitative Sections (Sections 2 and 4) have been combined. Lower Level Scaled Score , Raw Score Reading i Verbal I Quantitative I 60 710 55 710 50 710 704 45 680 698 40 674 710 659 i I 35 686 650 635 30 656 626 614 25 602 626 593 ! 20 596 578 569 15 566 554 540 I 10 530 536 527 5 506 506 503 0 476 482 482 -5 446 458 458 -10 and lower 440 440 440 Median 50th Percentile I Grade 5 585 590 587 Grade 6 603 610 611 I Grade 7 628 635 635