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SELECTIONS FROM THE SCHOLASTIC APTITUDE
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PREPARATORY TEST (the S.A.P.)
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ENGLISH
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1. Which of the following is the correct answer to this question?
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a. b. c. d. e. none of the above
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2. ingot:bleak :: ingot:_______
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a. tepid b. gold c. oak d. bolonga e. bleak
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3. pork:algae :: green:_______
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a. six b. five c. ten d. marble e. red
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4. mugger:park :: king:_______
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a. castle b. burger c. queen d. Jacuzzi e. bleak
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READING COMPREHENSION
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Read the following carefully and answer the questions below.
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In addition to the obvious effects of solar activity on the upper atmosphere,
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some scientists contend that it also afffects the weather. These contentions,
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however, are for the most part unconfirmed and some are very dubious. Even
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further afield, a British researcher on epidemiology claimed last year that
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"the periods of world dominance of successive major subtypes of influenza A
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virus have synchronized closely with the periodicity of sunspots." Correlatons
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of biomedical phenomenon with solar activity, such as this one, are generally
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not taken seriously by most Western scintists. Many researchers in the Soviet
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Union, however, do believe in such possibilites, including even a correlation
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of sunspots with outbreaks of plague-spreading rodents in central Asia.
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1. In what lanuage is the British researcher speaking?
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a. Japanese b. Urdu c. Bengali d. British e. Media
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2. The term "most Western" means
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a. Hawaii b. John Ford's longest film c. nothing d. correct
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3. A conclusion that could be drawn from this passage is
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a. Russian scientists are idiots and Russia is full of rats
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b. The sun has sunspots
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c. Don't ask a question of a British researcher if you want an answer
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d. all of the above
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MATHEMATICS
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1. Which of the following is a number?
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a. blue b. Jacques Cousteau c. watermelon d. John Doe e. 5
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2. If Juan is fourteen and weighs 150 pounds, and Grover is nine and weighs
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70 pounds, what is the probability that Juan can get anything he wants
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from Grover?
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a. 0% b. 100% c. a and b d. a only e. b only
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3. Delbert McBumm wants to pawn a hundred-dollar watch. The pawnbroker gives
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him eleven dollars for it and then sells it for a hundred and twenty-five.
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What was the relative rate of mark-up in the watch in relation to half of
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its worth, if the worth is calculated at three-quarters the difference
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between the pawnbrokers's offer and 78% of Delbert's assessment of the
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watch's value?
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a. 100 b. 50 c. 75 d. 115 e. none of the above
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/\50 6/\
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5. Calculate the shaded area 6/ \__/ \2
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of the figure at the right. / 2 |
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a. 0 b. 50% c. c only \ /\ |
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d. the answer is a 9\ /7 \ |10
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e. go back, it's a \/ 8\__|
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6. Grant McSwine is a repairman. If he tells Mr. White that it will take him
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about 10 hours to do a specific job, how long will it really take him?
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a. six weeks b. half an hour c. about three hundred dollars longer
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d. not enough information because the type of rtepair is not indicated
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QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON
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In the following questions you are asked to compare two quantities. These
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quantities may be equal, or one may be bigger, or neither. On your answer
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sheet choose a if b is bigger, choose b if a and b are equal, choose c if a
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is bigger, choose di if neither one is bigger, choose e if both are bigger,
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choose f if the answer cannot be determined from the information given,
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choose g if you have no idea.
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a. 2 b. 15
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a. the area of a circle b. the area of a square
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whose area is 10 whose area is 10
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a. my dad b. your dad
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a. New York City b. Limpid, Iowa
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a. something b. nothing
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a. a mountain b. a molehill
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