New York City SHSAT 2017

PRACTICE TEST 2—PART 1 1. Part 1—Verbal RUQTS. The Topic Sentence tells us that the paragraph is about the wimple. You’d expect ...

B Let’s review the facts. The original Tin Man couldn’t play the part because he was allergic to makeup, so he was replaced by a ...

Day: 1 2 3 4 5 6 3 2 2 2 1 After four days she’ll still have one company to visit, so it will take her five days total to visit ...

From the completed diagram, you see that Liz sits on Sean’s left, choice (B). F This question is easy once you have the diagram. ...

J Once again, we’re told that wide, shallow root systems help plants adjust to “occasional, but heavy rainfalls” (lines 10–11). ...

Lines 26–27 state that alchemists believed base metals could be purified “under certain astrological conditions,” but we never l ...

contradicted by the final sentence of paragraph 2. (G), (H), and (J) are not substantiated in the passage: We’re not told that t ...

correct. (A) and (B) are things attributed to Graham’s early dances; (C) mentions the subject matter of some of her later work. ...

B Paragraph 2 describes the problems of refractors—they didn’t “focus light sharply,” and they produced “color distortions.” Cho ...

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PRACTICE TEST 2—PART 2 1. Part 2—Math D Plug in the values you have for a and b. Since a = 3 and b = −3, our equation reads 2(3) ...

the total number of possible outcomes. Fran is going to pick one shirt, and we want to figure out the probability that it will n ...

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 ...

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 ...

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( ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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