"I HAVE AN ADMISSION TO MAKE" SAT-II: Writing Test by Richard J. Rome Copyright © 1995, All rights reserved.

Table of Contents

Forewords:
Dr. Joseph Cooper, Professor of Political Science and
former Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs,
Johns Hopkins University...............................................10
Dr. William E. Fitzgibbon III, Chairman and Professor
of the Department of Mathematics,
University of Houston..................................................11

Acknowledgments........................................................12
HIGHER SCORES FOR HIGHER EDUCATION.....................................13

Introduction...........................................................17
    - If you pay peanuts to prep.......................................20
    - guessing: defensive/offensive/horseshoes and hand grenades.......21
    - cups and doughnuts during the PSAT and the SAT...................22
    - the possibilities worth considering..............................26
    - the keys.........................................................28
    - Manage, to have a good time on your test.........................30

THE MATH PREP/PSAT/NMSQT, SAT-I: REASONING TEST
MATH 1: fractions, ratios, percentages, averages, gridins and QC.......31
    - a get-rich-quick illusion........................................82
    - reinforcement test Math-I (answers, scoring, solutions)..........83-89
MATH II: the real number system........................................98
    - integers (are integral), odds, evens.............................98
    - algebraic operations.............................................101
    - identities.......................................................103
    - factors, multiples...............................................104
    - prime numbers, composite numbers.................................104
    - The powers of exponents..........................................105
    - perfect squares that are not dweebs..............................107
    - Radicals are a good riddance.....................................112
    - Please-Excuse-.......the order of algebraic operations...........115
    - variables in terms of other variables............................116
    - equalities, inequalities.........................................120-122
    - Does symbolism give you an embolism?.............................124
    - reinforcement test Math II (answers and solutions)...............128-135

GEOMETRY
MATH III: Geometry (the first dimension)...............................146
    - angles, lines....................................................146
    - triangles........................................................147
    - the right triangle...............................................149
    - quadrilaterals...................................................151
    - polygons.........................................................153
    - face diagonals...................................................154
    - circles..........................................................156
    - Re-recount twenty-two keys.......................................163
    - reinforcement test Math III (answers and solutions)..............164-174
MATH IV: Geometry of Areas (the second dimension)......................189
MATH V: Cartesian coordinates..........................................199
    - reinforcement test Math IV, V (answers and solutions)............203-211
MATH VI: Geometry of Volumes (the third dimension).....................221
    - space diagonal...................................................224
    - reinforcement test Math VI (answers and solutions)...............233-241

WORD PROBLEMS
MATH VII: WORD PROBLEMS: variation, motion, work, assigned-values......250
    - variation........................................................250
    - Does motion make you throw up?...................................255
    - work.............................................................259
    - assigned-value problems..........................................262

GORDIAN COUNTING, COMBINATIONS
MATH VIII: combinations, probability, exhaustion, Venn diagrams........265
    - the fundamental principle of counting............................271
    - finite probability, odds, independent trials, more guessing......272
    - reinforcement test Math VII, VIII (answers and solutions)........274-282
    - Venn diagrams....................................................292
MATH IX: Data Interpretation...........................................separate attachment

THE VERBAL PREP
VERBAL I
    - analogies........................................................302
    - a typology.......................................................314
    - reinforcement test (followed by answers and types)...............315
VERBAL II
    - sentence completions.............................................321
    - annotate structural clues (telltales)............................324
    - syntax, subordination, stress, main idea.........................325
    - reinforcement test/sentences completions and analogies...........335

CRITICAL READING
VERBAL III
    - reading explicitly, implicitly with your #2 pencil...............342
    - choosing the correct answer......................................356
    - double passages..................................................374
    - narrative (fiction/nonfiction)...................................390
    - rhetorical devices...............................................391
VERBAL IV STANDARD WRITTEN ENGLISH SAT-II:  WRITING TEST
    - question types/directions/how to approach the questions..........400
    - diction, a haven for homophones/clichés are worn to a frazzle....402
    - mixed metaphors, "Apology does not mend the offense."............403
    - substandard usage (sic) ain't no way to communicate..............404
    - Idiom is habit-forming / verbosity by Calvin Coolidge............405-407
    - grammar, the rules most commonly violated........................408
      - subject-verb agreement.........................................408
      - pronouns and their antecedents.................................414
      - tense and verb forms...........................................420
      - God bless the subjunctive!.....................................422
      - fragments......................................................427
      - parallelism....................................................427
      - modifiers......................................................437
      - She looks as a horse, and other comparisons....................440
    - logical connections..............................................443
    - ten-interrogative checklist......................................444

PSAT/SAT REINFORCEMENT TEST............................................445

HOW TO TAKE AN EXTEMPORANEOUS SAT-II: Writing Test.....................458

PERORATION IN THE LOCKER ROOM BEFORE THE TEST..........................475

GLOSSARY...............................................................479