New York City SHSAT 2017

Working with Structural Clues Structural Clues are words that authors use to indicate the function of each sentence in relation ...

are wrong because they’re only discussed in paragraphs 1 and 2. Choice (C) is too broad; this passage isn’t about the whole sola ...

Use ambiguous nouns and pronouns to determine the order of the following sentence pairs. More Structural Clues Example Example c ...

G Lines 13–16 indicate that variolation, the first known immunization process, was known since the ninth century CE. Wrong choic ...

CLASSIC PARAGRAPH STRUCTURES The more you practice Scrambled Paragraphs, the more you’ll recognize paragraph structures that app ...

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Scrambled Paragraph Practice Set Paragraph 1 It is ironic that, despite the many successes of scientific medicine, many afflicti ...

PRACTICE TEST 1—PART 2 1. Part 2—Mathematics E Follow the order of operations. Operations inside parentheses must be done first, ...

R. A star’s brightness stays the same over any distance, so each of those stars would be visible to us, and the heavens would be ...

The number 258,546 becomes 278,746. The difference is found by subtracting the two numbers: 278,746 − 258,546 leaves you with 20 ...

Paragraph 6 Many people find it puzzling that groups of people sometimes engage in behavior that seems to be clearly dangerous o ...

This is just a division problem: How many times will 8 (eggs) go into 175 (the total number of eggs to be sold)? We calculate 17 ...

salute. S. He returned the honor with his cane and then astonished his friend by following exactly in the guard’s footsteps, dup ...

Use the Pythagorean theorem, which says that in a right triangle, the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the square ...

Q. Passive margins are created relatively slowly and are characterized by flat regions of accumulated sediment that develop betw ...

Plug in the number 9 for each z in the problem, which will yield 9 × 12 in the numerator and 5 × 9 in the denominator. The 9s ca ...

Paragraph 14 Desert plant populations have evolved sophisticated structural and behavioral traits that aid their survival in ext ...

Then Cross-multiplying and solving for x gives you x = 2, so the color is orange. J The first step is to find the midpoint betwe ...