New York City SHSAT 2017

This short passage discusses how children learn vocabulary. The question asks when children are most receptive to learning new w ...

To find company X’s profit for a given year, first find the year on the horizontal scale of the graph and then draw a line strai ...

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Since this question doesn’t ask for an exact answer, we can round off the numbers involved. Let’s change to and change to So now ...

GREEK POETRY PASSAGE Now it’s time to put some of this together. Take about three minutes to read the following passage. Then ta ...

Given a diameter of 6, the radius must equal 3. Next, the circumference = 2πr = 2π(3) = 6π. The area formula gives you πr^2 = π( ...

( 35 )In the heroic age, poets became singers of tales who performed long poems about the fates of warriors and kings. One need ...

leaving 70 − 14 = 56 pages left to type. He plans to type of the remaining pages in the afternoon. Since of 56 is 8, John plans ...

(F) community life (G) individuals (H) religious beliefs (J) the value of work (K) common people The passage suggests that, comp ...

H The positive square roots of 64 and 36 are 8 and 6 respectively, so adding them together makes 8 + 6, or 14, choice (H). 92. B ...

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J To answer this question, we just have to figure out how many times goes into 60. We know that it will be more than 60, so righ ...

The Questions As you already know, Reading points come from answering the questions, not simply reading the passages. This doesn ...

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ALWAYS FIND THE POINT—THE “SO WHAT?” OF THE PASSAGE Use your inference skills to figure out what the author’s point is—the answe ...

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during the 1820s in the Hudson River Valley and surrounding locations. Heavily influenced by European Romanticism, these painter ...

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We hope you caught that this passage was about why the Hudson River School became so successful. You should have also noted that ...