Daily Practice Questions

6 questions across multiple subjects, with detailed explanations and study tips.

📝 Questions

✍️ AP English Language Medium
The rhetorical effect of the writer’s decision to spell out numbers (e.g., “three-hundred and thirty-eight” as in line 7) instead of using numerals (“338”) could be used to support all of following claims EXCEPT
  1. A. it impedes superficial skimming of the passage.
  2. B. it adds a sense of the substance to the statistics.
  3. C. it facilitates the memorization of the numbers. ✓
  4. D. it endows the passage with an aura of momentousness.
  5. E. it subtly simulates the prodigious dimensions of the river.
Explanation: A quantity in numerical form makes an immediate visual and cognitive impact on the brain. Because processing spelled-out numbers requires greater concentration and thought, the figures gain in textual importance.
📊 SAT Math Medium
Which quotation from the poem most effectively illustrates the claim?
  1. A. “While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead / I played about the front gate, pulling flowers.”
  2. B. “Lowering my head, I looked at the wall. / Called to, a thousand times, I never looked back.”
  3. C. “You went into far Ku-to-en, by the river of swirling eddies, / And you have been gone five months.”
  4. D. “If you are coming down through the narrows of the river, / Please let me know beforehand, / And I will come out to meet you.” ✓
Explanation: This option most directly shows that the narrator wishes to reunify with her departed husband, since she states that if he is coming, he should be sure to let her know ahead of time so that she can meet him. Choice (A) focuses on the narrator’s appearance and outdoor actions. Choice (B) would show that the narrator was not especially eager for a reunification. Choice (C) does not express emotion about missing the husband, but just states information about his journey.
💻 AP Computer Science A Medium
What is the purpose of the local variable nRemaining?
  1. A. It is not possible to separate n into digits without the help of a temporary variable.
  2. B. nRemaining prevents the parameter n from being altered.
  3. C. nRemaining enhances the readability of the algorithm.
  4. D. On exiting the method, the value of nRemaining may be reused. ✓
  5. E. nRemaining is needed as the left-hand side operand for integer division.
Explanation: As n gets broken down into its digits, nRemaining is the part of n that remains after each digit is stripped off. Thus, nRemaining is a self-documenting name that helps describe what is happening. Choice A is false because every digit can be stripped off using some sequence of integer division and mod. Choice B is false because num is passed by value and therefore will not be altered when the method is exited (see ). Eliminate choice D: When the method is exited, all local variables are destroyed. Choice E is nonsense.
⚛️ AP Physics C Easy
A particle is released from rest at point A . The figure shows the potential energy of the particle as a function of position. If no nonconservative forces are present, which of the following statements is true?
  1. A. The particle oscillates between points B and F .
  2. B. The particle cannot reach point G . ✓
  3. C. The particle moves in simple harmonic motion.
  4. D. The particle experiences no force at points C , D , and E .
  5. E. The particle’s speed is maximized at point E .
Explanation: Since no nonconservative forces act, total mechanical energy is conserved: $E_{tot} = K + U$. Released from rest at A, $E_{tot} = U_A$. At point G, $U_G > U_A$, so reaching G would require $K < 0$, which is impossible. Thus, the particle cannot reach G. Option (D) is incorrect because $F = -dU/dx$ is zero only at local extrema (like C and E), not at the inflection point D.
📝 ACT Prep Medium
I watched in dismay as my laptop was crushed beneath the taxis wheels'.
  1. A. NO CHANGE
  2. B. taxis' wheels.
  3. C. taxi's wheels'.
  4. D. taxi's wheels. ✓
Explanation: The changes in the answer choices identify apostrophes as the topic. Use POE heavily with apostrophes: eliminate all the answers that are wrong. If you just try to fix it in your head and find a match, you'll likely miss something. Wheels don't "possess" anything in this sentence, so eliminate (F) and (H). The wheels belong to the taxi, so an apostrophe is needed on that word. Eliminate (F), and (J) is the correct answer.
🎓 GRE Prep Medium
While grizzly bears have long, flat, and somewhat blunt claws, black bears have short, curved and claws.
  1. A. obtuse
  2. B. abominable
  3. C. barren
  4. D. acute ✓
  5. E. fearful
Explanation: The sentence contrasts grizzly bears' 'long, flat, and somewhat blunt claws' with black bears' claws—implying the latter are *not* blunt. 'Blunt' means not sharp, so the opposite would be 'acute,' which in geometry and anatomy means sharply pointed or tapered. Thus, 'acute' correctly describes black bears' curved claws as sharp-tipped. The other options (obtuse = blunt, abominable = horrifying, barren = unproductive, fearful = scared) are either synonyms of blunt or irrelevant.

💡 Study Tips

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