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I found a website with free answer explanations to the first 4 real sat practice tests:

http://www.satconquered.com/SATI/test1/test1.html

Just in case anyone wanted to know...

By icognito on Monday, January 27, 2003 - 07:33 pm: Edit

WOW. Thank you Jason. But the question is, do you think that it would be more beneficial to figure out why the right answer is the right answer for yourself? (I'm not sure on this one. It works for me at least. The point is that if you get explanations from others, you will get used to having explanations fed to you, and comming up w/them by yourself MAY make you a better test taker--Again, it's an unproved theory).

By incognito on Monday, January 27, 2003 - 07:35 pm: Edit

i do, however, think that the explanations would probably be very helpful...especially for those of you who are beginners

By Jason817 (Jason817) on Monday, January 27, 2003 - 07:38 pm: Edit

I believe that you should try to find it out yourself. If you can't find it, keep trying (use a dictionary if you have to). If you STILL can't find it, only then should you look at the answer explanations.

I can't tell from personal experience, but that seems like the best way to increase your score.

By incognito on Monday, January 27, 2003 - 07:46 pm: Edit

It sure does sound like a good idea. If you get the answer to a question wrong, try to figure out the right answer and WHY it is the right answer. This can build your test taking skills. Advice to some people: use Jason's web site (which looks pretty good) as a last resort.

and thanx for that site; i dont know how you found it.

By Jason817 (Jason817) on Monday, January 27, 2003 - 08:20 pm: Edit

i typed on google "10 real sats answer explanations" or something of the sort.

By Camron (Camron) on Tuesday, March 18, 2003 - 12:20 pm: Edit

bump...
This satconquered.com site is no longer there. Does anyone know of any other sites with explanations?

By Virgo007 (Virgo007) on Tuesday, March 18, 2003 - 04:19 pm: Edit

I found a site that works!!!!!!
It has ALL the 10 real SAT Answers...for the White and Red book.

cheers

http://www.studyhall.com/webpage2000/MainAnsSheet.html

By Camron (Camron) on Tuesday, March 18, 2003 - 04:21 pm: Edit

Thanks a lot Virgo

By Curiousone (Curiousone) on Saturday, March 29, 2003 - 09:47 pm: Edit

I have a question about this explanation for the 2nd ed red test, Jan 2000:

http://www.studyhall.com/webpage2000/p629-q10.html

I got this question wrong, but this explanation seems way off base. For one, pi * d is not the area of a circle, its the circumference; pi * r^2 is. Please explain if anyone has the book and some free time? I got I think A as the answer but I also thought it might be 14 pi instead of 12 pi.

By Physique (Physique) on Saturday, March 29, 2003 - 10:18 pm: Edit

Here's how you do it. They give you the value of BC which equals 2. They also tell you the Diameter AB equals 2BC or 4. If you add the diameters of both AB and BC this gives you 6, which is the diameter of the whole circle. The radius is 3, so the area equals 9pie. Now you need to realize that the shaded region is half the area of Circle AC circle minus 1/2 of Circle AB plus 1/2 circle BC. S, you must take 1/2 of the area of the whole circle, this gives you 4.5pie. Then subtract one half the area of Circle AB which is 2. This gives you 2.5 pie. Then you must add half the area of circle BC, 2.5 pie plus .5 pie yields three pie, the answer is D.

By Xiggi (Xiggi) on Sunday, March 30, 2003 - 01:47 am: Edit

Good catch!

Study Hall messed up on that one. It seems that someone "backed up" into the right answer without too much afterthought.

I do not think that it happens too often.

Physique's answer is obviously correct!