Directions: Each of the following questions consists of one word followed by five words or phrases. You are to select the one word or phrase whose meaning is closet to the word in capital letters.
Examples: Collaborate: (A) Pass sentence (B) Settle (C) Forge ahead (D) Work together (E) Embroider
Menu is to food as (A) Catalog is to merchandise (B) Encyclopedia is to volumes (C) Sign is to roads (D) Magazines is to editions (E) Digest is to stories
Quantitative I
Directions: Following each problem in this section, there are five suggested answers. Work each problem in your head or in the blank space provided at the right of the page. Then look at the five suggested answers and decide which one is the best.
Example:
If 2 dozen balloons are divided equally among 8 children, how many balloons does each child get? (A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 6
Quantitative II
Directions: Following each problem in this section, there are five suggested answers. Work each problem in your head or in the blank space provided at the right of the page. Then look at the five suggested answers and decide which one is the best.
Example: If Wilson Elementary school has an average class size of 24, which of the following could NOT be the total enrollment? (A) 2,207 (B) 1,776 (C) 1,224 (D) 888 (E) 816
Reading Comprehension
Directions: Read each passage carefully and then answer the questions about it. For each question, decide on the basis of the passage which one of the choices best answers the questions.
Example:
Since communities were first established, women have been involved in statecraft. In ancient Egypt, however, the few who exerted more than nominal power possessed extraordinary qualities. One of the first women of distinction was Hatshepsut, the only woman pharaoh in history, who ruled Egypt between 1503 and 1482 B.C. Whereas previous Egyptian consorts had used indirect influence in government, Hatshepsut ruled openly after her husband, the pharaoh, died. She was sufficiently influential to exercise supreme power when she became regent to her husband’s six-year-old son. Hatshepsut surrounded herself with people of outstanding administrative and intellectual abilities. When she renounced the regency and declared herself pharaoh, she successfully challenged the 2,000-year-old tradition of masculine rule in an extremely conservative civilization. She also avoided what had been the pharaoh’s major occupation, waging war. Her 20-year reign was devoted to peace and prosperity. She encouraged agriculture and trade and established sea routes to replace long, arduous, overland journeys. The arts, especially architecture, flourished under her patronage, as her funerary temple at Deir al-Bahri and the two obelisks at Karnak demonstrate. When she died, her constructive influence ended and her husband’s son became pharaoh. He smashed her statues and erased her name from monuments, thus belittling Queen Hatshepsut’s accomplishments. To this day, Hatshepsut is less renowned even though she was a far more capable ruler than the famous Queen Cleopatra.
The author suggests that in ancient Egypt before Hatshepsut’s time women had (A) not been involved in trade (B) frequently held minor posts in Egyptian government (C) not been allowed to take part in public functions (D) shown little interest in government (E) wielded little direct political power
It can be inferred from the passage that before Hatshepsut’s reign Egypt was (A) not concerned with education (B) frequently at war (C) hampered by inept rulers (D) often conquered by rival nations (E) not a world power
Essay
Directions: Read the following topic carefully. Take a few minutes to think about the topic and organize your thoughts before you begin writing.
Topic: One learns a skill by practice, not by watching others use the skill.
Assignment: Do you agree or disagree with the topic statement? Support your position with one or two specific examples from personal experience, the experience of others, current events, history or literature.
