January 2017 US SAT Test QAS and Answer Paper

Reading Test

Passage1 – Literature – Offical January 21,2017 SAT Test QAS Paper

This passage is from Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel’s Game.©2008 by Dragonworks, S.L. Translation ©2009 by Lucia Graves. The narrator, a writer, recalls his childhood in early twentieth-century Barcelona.

Passage2 – Science – Offical January 21,2017 SAT Test QAS Paper

This passage is adapted from Jeffrey Mervis, “Why Null Results Rarely See the Light of Day.” ©2014 by American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Passage3 – Science – Offical January 21,2017 SAT Test QAS Paper

This passage is adapted from Rachel Ehrenberg, “Salt Stretches in Nanoworld.” ©2009 by Society for Science & the Public. The “nanoworld” is the world observed on a scale one billionth that of ordinary human experience.

Passage4 -History – Offical January 21,2017 SAT Test QAS Paper

These passages are adapted from the Lincoln‑Douglas debates. Passage 1 is from a statement by Stephen Douglas. Passage 2 is from a statement by Abraham Lincoln. Douglas and Lincoln engaged in a series of debates while competing for a US Senate seat in 1858.

Questions 42-52 -Science – Offical January 21,2017 SAT Test QAS Paper

This passage is adapted from Daniel Chamovitz, What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses. ©2012 by Daniel Chamovitz.