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1 1 - Not your parent s SAT!.. Sample Release Questions SAT School Day April 2017 (& answers!)

2 instance, a study that analyzed a set of published experiments all sharing Line Knowing your own reputation can be surprisingly difficult. Consider, for Feel, and Want by Nicholas Epley. This passage is adapted from Nicholas Epley, Mindwise: How We Understand What Others Think, Believe. Questions are based on the following passage and supplementary material. would be asked to predict how the other group members would rate them 5 on a series of different traits. Researchers then compared these predicted like intelligence, sense of humor, consideration, defensiveness, 10 the members of some groups being fairly unfamiliar with one another 15 between predicted and actual ratings. If people were clueless, then there would be no correspondence between the two. Statistically speaking, you 20 relationship. First, the good news. These experiments suggested that people are pretty good, overall, at guessing how a group of others would evaluate them, on average. The overall correlation in these experiments between not perfect insight, but it is also very far from being clueless. In other words, you probably have a decent sense of what others generally think Now the bad news. These experiments also assessed how well people could predict the impression of any single individual within a given group. 30 of you, on average. between the heights of fathers and the heights of sons (around.5). It is perspective, this is roughly the same magnitude as the correlation 25 was quite high (.55, if you are quantitatively inclined). To put that in predicted impressions and the average actual impression of the group correlation of 0. The closer the correlation is to 1, the stronger the correspondence yields a correlation of 1 and no correspondence yields a measure relationships like these with a correlation, where perfect what others were thinking, then there would be a perfect correspondence together for an extended time as roommates). If people knew exactly other groups being very familiar with one another (such as having lived (such as having met only once, in a job interview) and the members of friendliness, and leadership ability. The groups varied in familiarity, with The traits varied from one experiment to another and included qualities ratings to the other group members actual ratings on the very same traits the same basic design. In these experiments, people working in a group Reading: Question 13

3 You may know, (or instance that your coworkers in general think you are rather smart, but those coworkers also vary in their impression of you. 35 Some think you are as sharp as a knife. Others think you are as sharp as a spoon. Do you know the difference? Evidently, no. The accuracy rate across these experiments was barely better than random guessing (an overall correlation of.13 between predicted and actual evaluations, only slightly higher than no relationship 40 whatsoever). Although you might have some sense of how smart your coworkers think you are, you appear to have no clue about which coworkers in particular find you smart and which do not. As one author of the study writes, People seem to have just a tiny glimmer of insight into how they are uniquely viewed by particular other people. 45 But perhaps this is holding your mind-reading abilities to too high a standard? It s hard, after all, to define traits like intelligence and trustworthiness precisely, so it might not be so surprising that we have difficulty guessing how others will evaluate us on these ambiguous traits. What about predicting something simpler, such as how much other people 50 like you? Surely you are better at this. You learn over time to hang around people who smile at you and avoid those who spit at you. You must have a much better sense of who likes you and who hates you within a group. Yes? I m afraid not. These studies found that people are only slightly better 55 than chance at guessing who in a group likes them and who does not (the average correlation here was a meager.18). Some of your coworkers like you and others do not, but I wouldn t count on you knowing the difference. The same barely-better-than-guessing accuracy is also found in experiments investigating how well speed daters can assess who wants 60 to date them and who does not, how well job candidates can judge which interviewers were impressed by them and which were not, and even how well teachers can predict their course evaluations. Granted, it s rare that you are completely clueless about how you are evaluated. Accuracy tends to be better than chance in these experiments, but not necessarily 65 by very much.

4 co.,r.,ti!:,, Ilk iii, 1 I Iit nc!1 IL, [ fnn,ii.,iii I,,-i,,n,,,ctjiih,a,!l,._ ra.pihii,.ini! tti,,,-,,ci,ri,, I ;ieciii.ians ft liii; atiwil II,,,, I cn,,pl.,t,n, ut,,, err Ir,dLv,clt.als, Ff p o, Ii ijil i : ci;,iio, at I,!,ce ii, iv,u,.ji- ii, I.,. nfl ii!tiyiii,iak i,l i!i, ciw cii in lull.. hi i_i nrt.,,i n.:ei,i- :2 iiii.1- I!, (:! ii Adapted from Erika N. Carison and Simine Vazire, Meta-lnsiqht: Do People Really Know How Others See ThemT ( by American Psycholouical Association. Based on the passage, in which situation would an individual stand the greatest chance of accurately predicting how he or she is perceived? A. An intern predicts the impression that her direct supervisor holds of her. B. A manager predicts the collective opinion of employees about her ability. C. An instructor predicts the enthusiasm of his class after talking with two students. D. A biographer predicts the esteem in which he is held by the living subject of his book. Choice B is the best answer According to the second sentence of the second paragraph, people are pretty good, overall, at guessing how a group of others would evaluate them, on average. Meanwhile, the last sentence of the fourth paragraph explains that people seem to have just a tiny glimmer of insight into how they are uniquely viewed by particular other people. Therefore, a manager would stand a greater chance of making an accurate prediction about her employees collective opinion of her ability than the individuals in the other options would about how other individuals perceive them. Choices A, C, and D are incorrect because these scenarios involve a person making a prediction about how that person is perceived based on the opinion of one or two individuals. The experiments described in the passage demonstrate that people don t make these predictions very accurately. Question Difficulty: Hard

5 The main reason that the author includes the information about speed daters, job candidates, and teachers in lines is to A. caution against making assumptions about certain individuals motives. B. distinguish among certain behaviors observed in three different scenarios. C. indicate certain settings where further study by researchers is needed. D. offer examples of situations in which a certain finding holds true. Choice D is the best answer. In the last paragraph, the information about speed daters, job candidates, and teachers is included to provide real-world examples of situations where the study s finding that people are only slightly better than chance at guessing who in a group likes them is evident. Therefore, the author s main reason for including the information is to offer examples of situations in which this certain finding holds true. Choices A, B, and C are incorrect because they aren t the main reason for the author s inclusion of these examples. The function of the examples is not cautionary (choice A), they don t distinguish among different behaviors (choice B), and the author doesn t suggest that research in these settings requires further study (choice C). Question Difficulty: Medium

6 Math: Question 9 x2 6x+11 =y x=y+1 The system of equations above is graphed in the xy-plane. Which of the following is the y-coordinate of an intersection point (A, y) of the graphs of the two equations? A. -4 B. 2 C. 2 D. 4 Choice C is correct. An intersection point of the graphs of the two equations is a point (x, y) that satisfies both equations. Substituting y 1 for x in the first equation yields (y + 1)2 6(y + 1) + 11 = y. Expanding all terms gives y2 + 2y + 1 6y = y, or y2 5y + 6 = 0. This can be factored by finding two numbers whose sum is 5 and whose product is 6. Two numbers that satisfy those conditions are 2 and 3, and thus the equation y2 5y + 6 = 0 can be rewritten as (y 2)(y 3) = 0. Therefore1 there are two values of y that satisfy the system of equations, y = 2 and y = 3. Of the two values, only 2 is given as a choice, so 2 is a y-coordinate of an intersection point (x, y) of the graphs of the two equations. Choice A is incorrect and likely results from solving for x instead of y and making a sign error. Choice B is incorrect and likely results from factoring incorrectly or omitting the minus sign in the quadratic formula. Choice D is incorrect and likely results from solving for x instead of y. Question Difficulty: Medium Math: Question 18 During a storm, the atmospheric pressure in a certain location fell at a constant rate of 3.4 millibars (mb) per hour over a 24-hour time period. Which of the following is closest to the total drop in atmospheric pressure, in millimeters of mercury (mm Hg), over the course of 5 hours during the 24-hour time period? (Note: 1,013mb = 760mm Hg) A C D Choice B is correct. It is given that the atmospheric pressure fell at a constant rate of 3.4 millibars (mb) per hour, so over 5 hours, the atmospheric pressure fell by a total of 3.4 x 5 = 17 mb. Since 1,103 mb = 760 millimeters of mercury (mm Hg), the drop in atmospheric pressure, in 760mm mm Hg, is 17 Hg mb 1,013mb 12.8 mm Hg. Choice A is incorrect because it shows the drop in atmospheric pressure in mm Hg for 1 hour, not 5 hours. Choice C is incorrect because it is the total drop in mb, not mm Hg. Choice D is incorrect and is most likely the result of a calculation error. Question Difficulty: Hard