Official SAT Practice Test #6 With Answers & Practical Tips

Though not closely related, the hedgehog tenrecs of
Madagascar share basic ____ true hedgehogs,
including protective spines, pointed snouts, and
small body size—traits the two groups of mammals
independently developed in response to equivalent
roles in their respective habitats.

Which choice completes the text with the most
logical and precise word or phrase?

In editor Lisa Yaszek’s introduction to her anthology
The Future Is Female! More Classic Science Fiction
Stories by Women, Yaszek identifies an increasing
sense of ____ feminist mode of writing in the
1970s, in contrast to many woman-authored science
fiction stories of the 1920s to 1960s whose politics
were less deliberately signaled.

Which choice completes the text with the most
logical and precise word or phrase?

____ the long-standing trend of overemphasizing
teenagers and young adults in research on social
media use, scholars have recently begun to expand
their focus to include the fastest-growing cohort of
social media users: senior citizens.

Which choice completes the text with the most
logical and precise word or phrase?

The following text is adapted from James Baldwin’s
1956 novel Giovanni’s Room. The narrator is riding
in a taxi down a street lined with food vendors and
shoppers in Paris, France.

"The multitude of Paris seems to be dressed in
blue every day but Sunday, when, for the most
part, they put on an unbelievably festive black.
Here they were now, in blue, disputing, every
inch, our passage, with their wagons,
handtrucks, their bursting baskets carried at an
angle steeply self-confident on the back."
©1956 by James Baldwin

As used in the text, what does the word “disputing”
most nearly mean?

While recent scholarship has undermined claims that
the works of twelfth-century Islamic philosopher Ibn
Rushd were _ other Muslim philosophers of
his time, it is indisputable that his location in the
Muslim-ruled area of what is now Spain meant that
his works were primarily available thousands of miles
west of the era’s center of Islamic thought.

Which choice completes the text with the most
logical and precise word or phrase?

On painter William H. Johnson’s return to the
United States in 1938 after a decade in Europe, his
style underwent an abrupt transformation. Turning
away from landscapes painted in an expressionist
style—a style that often involves using fluid, distorted
shapes and thick, textured brushstrokes to express
the artist’s subjective experience of reality—Johnson
began painting portraits of Black Americans in a
bold new way. Evocative of African sculpture and
American and Scandinavian folk art, these portraits
feature flat, deliberately oversimplified figures in a
vibrant but limited color palette.

Which choice best describes the function of the
underlined sentence in the text as a whole?

When classical pianist Martha Argerich performs, it
appears as if the music is coming to her
spontaneously. She’s highly skilled technically, but
because of how freely she plays and her willingness to
take risks, she seems relaxed and natural. Her
apparent ease, however, is due to a tremendous
amount of preparation. Despite Argerich’s
experience and virtuosity, she never takes for granted
that she knows a piece of music. Instead, she
approaches the music as if encountering it for the
first time and tries to understand it anew.

Which choice best states the main purpose of the
text?

The following text is adapted from Herman
Melville’s 1855 novel Israel Potter. Israel is a young
man wandering through New England during the
late eighteenth century.

"He hired himself out for three months; at the
end of that time to receive for his wages
two hundred acres of land lying in New
Hampshire. […] His employer proving false to
the contract in the matter of the land, and there
being no law in the country to force him to fulfil
it, Israel—who, however brave-hearted, and even
much of a dare-devil upon a pinch, seems
nevertheless to have evinced, throughout many
parts of his career, a singular patience and
mildness—was obliged to look round for other
means of livelihood than clearing out a farm for
himself in the wilderness."

Which choice best describes the function of the
underlined portion in the text as a whole?

Text 1
In 1954 George Balanchine choreographed a
production of The Nutcracker, a ballet by Pyotr Ilyich
Tchaikovsky. It has since become a tradition for
hundreds of dance companies in North America to
stage The Nutcracker each year. But the show is stuck
in the past, with an old-fashioned story and
references, so it should no longer be produced. Ballet
needs to create new traditions if it wants to stay
relevant to contemporary audiences.

Text 2
The Nutcracker is outdated, but it should be kept
because it’s a holiday favorite and provides
substantial income for some dance companies.
Although it can be behind the times, there are
creative ways to update the show. For example,
Debbie Allen successfully modernized the story. Her
show Hot Chocolate Nutcracker combines ballet, tap,
hip-hop, and other styles, and it has been gaining in
popularity since it opened in 2009.

Based on the texts, how would the author of Text 2
most likely respond to the underlined claim in
Text 1?

To understand how Paleolithic artists navigated dark
caves, archaeologist Ma Ángeles Medina-Alcaide and
her team tested different lighting methods in a cave
in Spain using replicas of artifacts found in European
caves with art. They used three different Paleolithic
light sources—torches, animal-fat lamps, and
fireplaces—determining that each likely had a
specific purpose. For instance, the team learned that
the animal-fat lamps were less useful than torches
while walking because the lamps didn’t illuminate
the cave floor.

Which choice best states the main idea of the text?

Annual Car Production in the United States, 1910–1925

A student is using the table as part of a social studies
class presentation on the US auto industry in the
early twentieth century. The student notes that,
according to the table, from 1910 to 1925 _____.

Which choice most effectively uses data from the
table to complete the statement?

External shopping cues are a type of marketing that
uses obvious messaging—a display featuring a new
product, for example, or a “buy one, get one free”
offer—to entice consumers to make spontaneous
purchases. In a study, data scientist Sam K. Hui and
colleagues found that this effect can also be achieved
with a less obvious cue: rearranging a store’s layout.
The researchers explain that trying to find items in
new locations causes shoppers to move through
more of the store, exposing them to more products
and increasing the likelihood that they’ll buy an item
they hadn’t planned on purchasing.

Which response from a survey given to shoppers
who made a purchase at a retail store best supports
the researchers’ explanation?

It may seem that the optimal strategy for an animal
pursuing prey or escaping predators is to move at
maximal speed, but the energy expense of exploiting
full speed capacity can disfavor such a strategy even
in escape contexts, as evidenced by the fact that...

Which choice most effectively uses data from the
graph to complete the text?

Under normal atmospheric pressure at Earth’s
surface, water molecules form a tetrahedral network
stabilized by hydrogen bonds between adjacent
molecules. Extreme high pressure, such as can be
found in deep ocean waters, destabilizes these bonds
and compresses water’s structure, allowing water
molecules within organisms to permeate proteins
and impede crucial biological functions; yet deep-sea
organisms known as piezophiles have adapted to
extreme pressure. Studies have found a positive
correlation between the depths that various
piezophiles inhabit and concentrations of a
compound called trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO)
in their muscle tissues, which has led a team of
researchers to hypothesize that TMAO reduces
water’s compressibility.

Which finding, if true, would most directly support
the researchers’ hypothesis?

The Cretaceous pterosaur Tupandactylus navigans is
known for having an anomalously oversized head
crest. Until an almost complete fossil skeleton was
found in Brazil, paleontologists had been able to
study only skull specimens from T. navigans, though
it was presumed that, like other pterosaurs, the
species’s primary form of locomotion was powered
flight. Examining the fuller skeleton in 2016, Victor
Beccari and his team determined that T. navigans
had long hind legs, short wings, and an unusually
long neck—characteristics that, combined with the
creature’s large-crested head, would have made
sustained flight difficult and walking upright
relatively comfortable. Based on these findings the
team suggests that T. navigans likely _______.

Which choice most logically completes the text?

Consumer psychologists have theorized that the
likelihood that people who identify as ethical
consumers—meaning that they strive to purchase
goods and services with positive or neutral social and
ecological effects—will purchase a given product
positively correlates with their perception of that
product’s effects. In a recent study of the attitudes of
self-identified ethical consumers toward purchasing
a specific mobile phone coming to market,
researchers found that, on average, study participants
in their twenties rated the phone’s social and
ecological effects much less positively than did
participants in other age groups. All other things
being equal, if consumer psychologists’ theory is
correct, this finding suggests that _______

Which choice most logically completes the text?

The Boston Saloon was one of the most popular
African American–owned establishments in
nineteenth-century Nevada. _______ by
businessman William A.G. Brown, the saloon was
known to offer elegant accommodations and an
inclusive environment.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms
to the conventions of Standard English?

“He was just the man for such a place, and it was
just the place for such a man.” This line is from
Frederick Douglass’s autobiography Narrative of the
Life of Frederick Douglass (1845). It’s an example of
antimetabole, a writing technique that
_______ emphasis by repeating a statement in a
reversed order.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms
to the conventions of Standard English?

Louise Bennett (1919–2006), also known as “Miss
Lou,” was an influential Jamaican poet and folklorist.
Her innovative poems _______ the use of Jamaican
Creole (a spoken language) in literature.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms
to the conventions of Standard English?

Researchers Amit Kumar and Nicholas Epley
investigated how _______ In a series of experiments
conducted in 2022, they found that people
performing small acts of kindness underestimated
the positive effect their actions had on others.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms
to the conventions of Standard English?

In a painting titled “The Milkmaid” by Johannes
Vermeer, the artist prominently features a bread
basket, milk pitcher, and bowl. Such quotidian
objects, depicted in exquisite detail by Vermeer, a
painter celebrated for his naturalism, _______ the
daily minutiae of a seventeenth-century Dutch
household.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms
to the conventions of Standard English?

Jamaican British artist Willard Wigan is known for
his remarkable _______ so small that they are best
viewed through a microscope, Wigan’s sculptures are
made from tiny natural materials, such as spiderweb
strands.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms
to the conventions of Standard English?

Consider the mechanics of the pinhole camera: light
passes through a small hole, resulting in a focused
projected image. A ray diagram reveals how this
_______ the hole’s small size restricts light to a single
ray, all light passing through the hole can only arrive
at a single destination, eliminating diffraction and
ensuring a clear image.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms
to the conventions of Standard English?

In the search for extraterrestrial life, astrobiologists
Stuart Bartlett and Michael L. Wong propose that
scientists avoid using the term “life.” _______
researchers should use another word: “lyfe*.” This
new term, they argue, could be used to draw
distinctions between the known characteristics of life
on Earth and the potentially differing characteristics
of lyfe on other planets.

Which choice completes the text with the most
logical transition?

*Tutor's notes: that's dvmb...

Before it unveiled a massive new gallery in 2009, the
Art Institute of Chicago was only able to display
about 5% of its art collection. _______ the museum
is able to display close to 30% of its collection.

Which choice completes the text with the most
logical transition?

Working together with the Navajo Nation
Department of Water Resources, Dr. Lani
Tsinnajinnie analyzed data about snowpack levels in
the Chuska Mountains. She found that the snowpack
(the amount of snow on the ground) was deepest in
early March at lower elevations. At higher elevations,
_______ the snowpack was deepest in mid-March.

Which choice completes the text with the most
logical transition?

The Inca of South America used intricately knotted
string devices called quipus to record countable
information, like population data and payments.
_______ they may have used quipus to record more
complex information, like stories and myths,
according to researchers.

Which choice completes the text with the most
logical transition?

In hindsight, given the ideas about the natural world
circulating among British scientists in the 1800s, the
theory of natural selection was an obvious next step.
It may not have been a coincidence, _______ that
Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace arrived at the
concept independently. Indeed, contrary to the
popular myth of the lone genius, theirs is not the first
paradigm-shifting theory to have emerged from
multiple scholars working in parallel.

Which choice completes the text with the most
logical transition?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the
following notes:
• In the 1930s, the Imperial Sugar Cane Institute in
India sought to limit the country’s dependence on
imported sugarcane.
• The institute enlisted botanist Janaki Ammal to
breed a local variety of sugarcane.
• She crossbred the imported sugarcane species
Saccharum officinarum with grasses native to
India.
• She succeeded in creating sugarcane hybrids well
suited to India’s climate.

The student wants to emphasize Janaki Ammal’s
achievement. Which choice most effectively uses
relevant information from the notes to accomplish
this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the
following notes:
• Elizabeth Catlett’s sculpture Recognition (1970)
shows two African American figures with
rounded, indistinct features.
• The figures reach out to each other in a pose that
symbolizes a close, supportive relationship.
• Her sculpture Students Aspire (1978) shows two
African American figures with sharply defined
features.
• The figures hold an equal sign above their heads
with one hand and embrace each other with the
other hand.
• This pose symbolizes their support for each other
in the pursuit of equality.

The student wants to emphasize a similarity between
the two sculptures. Which choice most effectively
uses relevant information from the notes to
accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the
following notes:
• The ancient Arab dhow was a sailing vessel
distinguishable by its triangular sails and stitched
hull construction.
• Dhows were used primarily for trade along the
coasts of Arab, South Asian, and East African
countries.
• Contemporary shipbuilders in Oman use a mix of
modern and traditional materials to build replicas
of ancient dhows.
• Most of the materials used are traditional.
• Replica hulls are stitched together using the same
traditional coconut palm fiber rope used on the
hulls of ancient dhows.

The student wants to make a generalization about the
materials used in dhow replicas. Which choice most
effectively uses relevant information from the notes
to accomplish this goal?

The works of Chicana artist Ester Hernandez are
now _______ in museums both in the United States
and abroad, but the murals she contributed to as a
member of Las Mujeres Muralistas early in her
artistic career were displayed in outdoor public
spaces across San Francisco.

Which choice completes the text with the most
logical and precise word or phrase?

Whether Carmen Lomas Garza is creating small
paintings and illustrations or large public
artworks—such as Baile, a copper cutout of
traditional Mexican dance in the San Francisco
International Airport—she is _______ direct
experience, drawing from memories of her childhood
in Texas or details of her current surroundings in
California.

Which choice completes the text with the most
logical and precise word or phrase?

Animal researcher Amalia P.M. Bastos led a 2021
study about a wild kea parrot that used small stones
as tools to preen its feathers. Skeptical colleagues
had initially suggested to Bastos that the kea’s
interactions with the stones might simply be
_______ , but Bastos and her team showed that
the kea was using the stones deliberately

Which choice completes the text with the most
logical and precise word or phrase?

In 1891, design artist William Morris cofounded the
Kelmscott Press, which printed editions of books
using preindustrial methods. Historians argue that
Morris’s repudiation of industrialization is _______
the Kelmscott editions’ use of handmade materials
and intricate ornamentation reminiscent of medieval
manuscripts: these meticulously handcrafted
elements exemplify the artistry involved.

Which choice completes the text with the most
logical and precise word or phrase?

Mary Engle Pennington, a chemist who helped
advance home refrigeration, undoubtedly made a
substantial impact on society, but her place in our
historical memory is perhaps more _______
than that of Stephanie Kwolek, who invented the
incredibly strong material known as Kevlar, an
accomplishment for which she will long be
remembered.

Which choice completes the text with the most
logical and precise word or phrase?

The following text is from Betty Smith’s 1943 novel
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Francie, a young girl, visits
the library often.

Francie thought that all the books in the world
were in that library and she had a plan about
reading all the books in the world. She was
reading a book a day in alphabetical order and
not skipping the dry ones. She remembered that
the first author had been Abbott. She had been
reading a book a day for a long time now and she
was still in the B’s. Already she had read about
bees and buffaloes, Bermuda vacations and
Byzantine architecture. For all her enthusiasm,
she had to admit that some of the B’s had been
hard going. But Francie was a reader.
©1947 by Betty Smith

Which choice best states the main purpose of the
text?

Researchers have long hypothesized that
woolly mammoths were hunted to extinction in
North America by humans using spears with grooved
tips known as Clovis points. One anthropologist
set out to test this hypothesis. Using a mechanical
spear-thrower, he launched spears with Clovis
points into mounds of clay—substitutes for the
animals’ large bodies. The projectiles generally
penetrated only a few inches into the clay, an amount
insufficient to have harmed most woolly mammoths.
This led the anthropologist to conclude that hunters
using spears with Clovis points likely weren’t the
principal drivers of the extinction.

Which choice best states the main purpose of the
text?

The people of medieval Europe have traditionally
been seen as uninterested in cleanliness and hygiene,
but modern research has shown that this is largely a
myth. According to historian Eleanor Janega, most
medieval towns in Europe had at least one public
bathhouse, which often offered both full-immersion
baths and—more affordably—steam baths. While
such amenities were available mainly to town
dwellers, regular bathing in rivers and streams or
daily sponge baths at home were common practices
throughout medieval Europe.

Which choice best describes the function of the
underlined portion?

Scholarly accounts of the Chicano movement—a
movement that advocated for the social, political,
and cultural empowerment of Mexican Americans
and reached its zenith in the 1960s and 1970s—tend
to focus on the most militant, outspoken figures in
the movement, making it seem uniformly radical.
Geographer Juan Herrera has shown, however, that
if we shift our focus toward the way the movement
manifested in comparatively low-profile
neighborhood institutions and projects, we see
participants espousing an array of political
orientations and approaches to community activism.

Which choice best describes the function of the
underlined portion in the text as a whole?

Elizabeth Asiedu has identified a negative correlation
between the share of developing countries’
economies derived from natural-resource extraction
and those countries’ receipts of foreign investment.
This may appear counterintuitive—resource
extraction requires initial investments (in extractive
technology, for instance) at scales best met by
multinational corporations—but Asiedu notes that
natural-resource industries’ boom-bust cycle can
destabilize local currencies and increase developing
countries’ vulnerability to external shocks, creating
levels of uncertainty to which foreign investors are
typically averse.

Which choice best states the main idea of the text?

To understand how temperature change affects
microorganism-mediated cycling of soil nutrients in
alpine ecosystems, Eva Kaštovská et al. collected
plant-soil cores in the Tatra Mountains at elevations
around 2,100 meters and transplanted them to
elevations of 1,700–1,800 meters, where the mean air
temperature was warmer by 2°C. Microorganismmediated nutrient cycling was accelerated in the
transplanted cores; crucially, microorganism
community composition was unchanged, allowing
Kaštovská et al. to attribute the acceleration to
temperature-induced increases in microorganism
activity.

It can most reasonably be inferred from the text that
the finding about the microorganism community
composition was important for which reason?

Some astronomers searching for extraterrestrial life
have proposed that atmospheric NH3 (ammonia) can
serve as a biosignature gas—an indication that a
planet harbors life. Jingcheng Huang, Sara Seager,
and colleagues evaluated this possibility, finding that
on rocky planets, atmospheric NH3 likely couldn’t
reach detectably high levels in the absence of
biological activity. But the team also found that on
so-called mini-Neptunes—gas planets smaller
than Neptune but with atmospheres similar to
Neptune’s—atmospheric pressure and temperature
can be high enough to produce atmospheric NH3.

Based on the text, Huang, Seager, and colleagues
would most likely agree with which statement about
atmospheric NH3?

In 2021, four of the United States national parks that
were among the most visited were Grand Canyon
National Park, Rocky Mountain National Park,
Yellowstone National Park, and Zion National Park.
The graph shows the number of visits for recreation
to each of these parks during the three-month period
with the highest number of visitors. A student notes
that among the parks shown in the graph, the park
with the highest monthly recreation visits in all three
months was _______

Which choice most effectively uses data from the
graph to complete the text?

“Lines Written in Early Spring” is a 1798 poem by
William Wordsworth. In the poem, the speaker
describes having contradictory feelings while
experiencing the sights and sounds of a spring
day: _______

Which quotation from “Lines Written in Early
Spring” most effectively illustrates the claim?

Mean Ratings for Patients after 21 Days

To test whether a medication is effective, scientists compare outcomes
for patients taking it and patients taking a placebo (a medically inactive
substance). Patients normally aren’t told they’re receiving a placebo,
but a research team conducted a study to see if there might be a medical
benefit to telling them. The team used various measures to evaluate
participants, with higher ratings indicating greater well-being in each
measure. Compared to the mean ratings after 21 days for participants
in the control group, the mean ratings for participants who were aware
of taking a placebo _______

Which choice most effectively uses data from the table to complete the
statement?

As media consumption has become increasingly
multiplatform and socially mediated, active news
acquisition has diminished in favor of an attitude
known as “news finds me” (NFM), in which people
passively rely on their social networks and ambient
media environments for information about current
events. Homero Gil de Zúñiga and Trevor Diehl
examined data on a representative group of adults in
the United States to determine participants’ strength
of NFM attitude, political knowledge, and political
interest. Although no major election took place
sufficiently near the study for Gil de Zúñiga and
Diehl to identify causality between NFM and voting
behavior, they did posit that NFM may reduce voting
probability through an indirect effect.

Which finding, if true, would most directly support
the idea advanced by Gil de Zúñiga and Diehl?

The practice of logging (cutting down trees for
commercial and other uses) is often thought to be
at odds with forest conservation (the work of
preserving forests). However, a massive study in
forest management and preservation spanning
700,000 hectares in Oregon’s Malheur National
Forest calls that view into question. So far, results
of the study suggest that forest plots that have
undergone limited logging (the careful removal of a
controlled number of trees) may be more robust than
plots that haven’t been logged at all. These results, in
turn, suggest that _______

Which choice most logically completes the text?

Even with the widespread adoption of personal
computers, many authors still choose to write and
revise their novels by hand and only then transcribe
the final version on a computer. It may be tempting
to speculate about how a novel written this way
would be affected if it had been exclusively typed
instead, but each novel is a unique entity resulting
from a specific set of circumstances. Therefore,
_______

Which choice most logically completes the text?

In forecasting weather events, meteorologists
sometimes discuss the role of atmospheric rivers.
What are atmospheric rivers, and how _______
Part of the water cycle, atmospheric rivers are
narrow channels of moisture moving through the
atmosphere. In certain conditions, these “rivers” can
release some of their moisture as precipitation.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms
to the conventions of Standard English?

One of the few African American global explorers
during the turn of the 20th century, _______

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms
to the conventions of Standard English?

Woven from recycled yarn and hand tufted using a
carpet weaving technique passed down by the artist’s
Turkish grandmother, _______ so lush and tactilely
inviting that you are tempted to reach out and touch
them.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms
to the conventions of Standard English?

Physical materials can be classified by how much
light passes through them. Clear glass, which is
classified as transparent, allows all (or almost all)
light to pass _______ wax paper, which is classified
as translucent, allows only some light to pass
through.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms
to the conventions of Standard English?

Using natural debris, such as dried _______ such as
plastic bags; and more traditional art supplies, such
as tree glue, Ghanaian artist Ed Franklin Gavua
creates his striking Yiiiiikakaii African masks, which
he hopes can help viewers rethink how waste is used
in their communities.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms
to the conventions of Standard English?

Latin America is known to have dozens, if not
hundreds, of popular dance forms. Only five of these
dances are included in international ballroom dance
_______ rumba, samba, cha-cha-cha, paso doble,
and jive—the last of which is grouped with the other
Latin dances despite not having Latin roots.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms
to the conventions of Standard English?

For thousands of years, humans have used
domesticated goats (Capra hircus) to clear land of
unwanted vegetation. When it comes to their diets,
goats are notoriously _______ they will devour all
kinds of shrubs and weeds, leaving virtually no part
of any plant unconsumed.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms
to the conventions of Standard English?

A species of Byropsis algae produces toxins to avoid
being eaten by predators. However, in some cases,
the toxins the organism uses to protect itself from
predation actually _______ its attractiveness to
predators. The Hawaiian sea slug, for example, not
only tolerates Byropsis toxins but actually uses them
for protection in the same way the algae does.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms
to the conventions of Standard English?

After appropriate permissions are granted, a typical
archaeological dig begins with a surveyor making a
detailed grid of the excavation site. Then, the site is
carefully dug, and any artifacts found are recorded
and mapped onto the site grid. _______ the artifacts
are removed, cataloged, and analyzed in a laboratory.

Which choice completes the text with the most
logical transition?

The liquid metals in Earth’s core circulate constantly,
and this circulation generates electrical currents that
flow between Earth’s North and South magnetic
poles. These electrical currents, _______ create a
barrier around Earth that protects us from radiation
and charged particles coming from space.

Which choice completes the text with the most
logical transition?

Biographer Michael Gorra notes that the novelist
Henry James “lived in a world of second thoughts,”
frequently tinkering with his novels and stories after
their initial publication. However, the differences
between the 1881 first edition and the 1908 edition of
his novel A Portrait of a Lady are extreme, even by
James’s standards; _______ some critics regard the
two editions as two different novels altogether.

Which choice completes the text with the most
logical transition?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the
following notes:
• In World War I, US soldiers who were members
of the Choctaw Nation in Oklahoma participated
in the Choctaw Code Talkers program.
• The Choctaw Code Talkers were trained to relay
coded military information in their native
language.
• In World War II, the US Army recruited Navajo
(Diné) soldiers to transmit coded messages in
their native language.
• These soldiers were known as the Navajo Code
Talkers.

The student wants to emphasize a similarity between
the Choctaw Code Talkers and the Navajo Code
Talkers. Which choice most effectively uses relevant
information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the
following notes:
• Meteorites found on Earth are divided into
two categories.
• A meteorite that was observed falling to
Earth before being recovered is known as a
meteorite fall.
• All other meteorites found on Earth are known as
meteorite finds.
• There have been about 1,200 recorded meteorite
falls.
• There have been over 60,000 recorded meteorite
finds.
The student wants to contrast the number of
meteorite falls with the number of meteorite finds.

Which choice most effectively uses relevant
information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the
following notes:
• Doña María do Carmo Bandeira was a Brazilian
botanist.
• Between 1924 and 1941, she collected
approximately 800 botanical samples.
• She collected a sample of Polytrichum juniperinum
from Serra de Itatiaia in Mauá in February
of 1925.
• She collected a sample of Sphagnum gracilescen
from Ponte do Inferno in Corcovado in March
of 1925.
• Polytrichum juniperinum and Sphagnum
gracilescen are both species of moss.

The student wants to emphasize the sample collected
from Serra de Itatiaia. Which choice most effectively
uses relevant information from the notes to
accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the
following notes:
• The US government classifies sensitive
information according to the degree to which
disclosure could affect the nation’s security.
• Information that could cause “damage” to
national security is classified as Confidential.
• Information that could cause “serious damage” to
national security is classified as Secret.
• Most routine diplomatic correspondence, if
disclosed, could cause damage but not serious
damage to national security.
• Diplomatic correspondence includes
communication with both allies and adversaries.

The student wants to indicate which category most
routine diplomatic correspondence belongs in, based
on how sensitive information is classified. Which
choice most effectively uses relevant information
from the notes to accomplish this goal?