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SAT Reasoning Test
PRE-TEST
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SE C T I O N 1
ESSAY
Time—25 minutes
Think carefully about the issue presented in the following quotations and the assignment below.
1. Success in life is largely a matter of luck. It has little correlation with merit, and in all fields of
life there have always been people of great merit who did not succeed.
Karl Popper, Popper Selections
2. As Colin Powell said, "There are no secrets to success. Don't waste time looking for them.
Success is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."
Adapted from Barry Farber, "Selling Points"
Assignment: Is success in life earned or do people succeed because they are lucky? Plan and write
an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with
reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.
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(D) harmful .. fatal
SE C T I O N 2
(E) beneficial .. miraculous
Time—25 minutes
24 Questions 6. Critics dismissed the engineer's seemingly creative design as
being -------, that is, underdeveloped and lacking in
1. Years of ------ lifting of heavy furniture had left him too ------ sophistication.
to be able to stand erect for long periods of lime. (A) defunct
(A) profitable .. dumbfounded (B) unorthodox
(B) generous .. distracted (C) simplistic
(C) onerous .. hesitant (D) erroneous
(D) strenuous .. de