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1 Question- and-Answer ServiceUse this with your QAS Student Guide and personalized QAS 's inside: Test questions The Essay prompt administered on your test day NOT FOR REPRODUCTION OR 2018iiQuestion- and-Answer ServiceApril QAS 4/10/18 ABOUT THE COLLEGE BOARD The College Board is a mission-driven not-for-profit organization that connects students to college success and opportunity. Founded in 1900, the College Board was created to expand access to higher education. Today, the membership association is made up of over 6,000 of the world s leading educational institutions and is dedicated to promoting excellence and equity in education.
2 Each year, the College Board helps more than seven million students prepare for a successful transition to college through programs and services in college readiness and college success including the SAT and the Advanced Placement Program . The organization also serves the education community through research and advocacy on behalf of students, educators, and schools. For further information, visit SAT CUSTOMER Service You can reach us from 8 to 9 ET (9 to 7 after the June test through August 19). Phone: 866-756-7346 International: +1-212-713-7789 Email: Mail: College Board SAT Program, Box 025505, Miami, FL 33102 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Introduction 2 Reading Test 18 Writing and Language Test 33 Math Test No Calculator 41 Math Test Calculator 56 Essay 2018 The College Board.
3 College Board, Advanced Placement Program, SAT, and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board. Visit College Board on the web: ServiceApril QAS 4/10/181 IntroductionCongratulations on taking the SAT ! This booklet contains the SAT you took in April 2018. There are also two Essay prompts here; if you took the SAT with Essay, you responded to one of these. This booklet contains every question that was part of the Question- and-Answer Service (QAS) you also have received:1. A customized report that lists the following details about each question: answer you gave best or correct answer question type difficulty level2.
4 A QAS Student Guide that explains your scores and how to interpret test begins on the next Service Student GuideApril QAS 4/10/18 ReadingTest65 MINUTES, 52 QUESTIONSTurn to Section 1 of your answer sheet to answer the questions in this passage or pair of passages below is followed by a number of questions. After readingeach passage or pair, choose the best answer to each question based on what is stated orimplied in the passage or passages and in any accompanying graphics (such as a table orgraph).Questions 1-10 are based on the passage is adapted from Nikolai Gogol, The MysteriousPortrait.
5 Originally published in Tchartkoff was an artist of talent, whichpromised great things: his work gave evidence ofobservation, thought, and a strong inclination toapproach nearer to nature. Look here, my friend, his professor said to himmore than once, you have talent; it will be a shame ifyou waste it: but you are impatient; you have but tobe attracted by anything, to fall in love with it, youbecome engrossed with it, and all else goes fornothing, and you won t even look at it. See to it thatyou do not become a fashionable artist. At presentyour colouring begins to assert itself too loudly; andyour drawing is at times quite weak; you are alreadystriving after the fashionable style, because it strikesthe eye at once.
6 Have a care! society already begins tohave its attraction for you: I have seen you with ashiny hat, a foppish topaint fashionable little pictures and portraits formoney; but talent is ruined, not developed, by thatmeans. Be patient; think out every piece of work,discard your foppishness; let others amass money,your own will not fail you. The professor was partly right. Our artistsometimes wanted to enjoy himself, to play the fop,in short, to give vent to his youthful impulses insome way or other; but he could control himselfwithal. At times he would forget everything, when hehad once taken his brush in his hand, and could nottear himself from it except as from a delightfuldream.
7 His taste perceptibly developed. He did not asyet understand all the depths of Raphael, but he wasattracted by Guido s broad and rapid handling, hepaused before Titian s portraits, he delighted in theFlemish masters. The dark veil enshrouding theancient pictures had not yet wholly passed away frombefore them; but he already saw something in them,though in private he did not agree with the professorthat the secrets of the old masters are irremediablylost to us. It seemed to him that the nineteenthcentury had improved upon them considerably, thatthe delineation of nature was more clear, more vivid,more close.
8 It sometimes vexed him when he sawhow a strange artist, French or German, sometimesnot even a painter by profession, but only a skilfuldauber, produced, by the celerity of his brush and thevividness of his colouring, a universal commotion,and amassed in a twinkling a funded capital. This didnot occur to him when fully occupied with his ownwork, for then he forgot food and drink and all theworld. But when dire want arrived, when he had nomoney wherewith to buy brushes and colours, whenhis implacable landlord came ten times a day todemand the rent for his rooms, then did the luck ofthe wealthy artists recur to his hungry imagination;then did the thought which so often traversesRussian minds, to give up altogether, and go downhill, utterly to the bad, traverse his.
9 And now he wasalmost in this frame of mind. Yes, it is all very well, to be patient, be patient! he exclaimed, with vexation; but there is an end topatience at last. Be patient! but what money have I copying or reuse of any part of this page is Service Student GuideApril QAS 4/10/18buy a dinner with to-morrow? No one will lend meany. If I did bring myself to sell all my pictures andsketches, they would not give me twenty kopeks forthe whole of them. They are useful; I feel that not oneof them has been undertaken in vain; I have learnedsomething from each one.
10 Yes, but of what use is it?Studies, sketches, all will be studies, trial-sketches tothe end. And who will buy, not even knowing me byname? Who wants drawings from the antique, or thelife class, or my unfinished love of a Psyche, or theinterior of my room, or the portrait of Nikita, thoughit is better, to tell the truth, than the portraits by anyof the fashionable artists? Why do I worry, and toillike a learner over the alphabet, when I might shineas brightly as the rest, and have money, too, likethem? 1 The passage is primarily focused on theA)influence of a professor on one of his ) struggles of a young artist conflicted about ) descent of a character into hopelessness ) personal life of a young painter in relation tohis first paragraph serves mainly to establish theA)ironic outlook of the ) central conflict depicted in the ) main character s defining artistic ) relationship between two passage suggests that Tchartkoff s professorbelievesthat great art should beA) technically accomplished and not ) pleasing to the eye but not overly )
