October 2020 School Day SAT Test QAS and Answer Paper PDF

Reading Test

Passage1:Questions 1-10 – Literature – October 2020 School Day SAT Test QAS

This passage is adapted from Kazuo lshiguro, An Artist of the Floating World. ©1986 by Kazuo lshiguro. The narrator is a retired Japanese painter named Masuji Ono, who is looking back on his youth in the early twentieth century.

Passage2:Questions 11-20 – Social Science – October 2020 School Day SAT Test QAS

This passage is adapted from Carmen Nobel, “What Charities Can Do about Our Aversion to Overhead Costs.” ©2015 by Forbes Media LLC. “Overhead” refers to certain expenditures required to run a business. 

Passage3:Questions 21-31 – Natural Science – October 2020 School Day SAT SAT Test QAS

This passage is adapted from David E. Alexander, On the Wing: Insects, Pterosaurs, Birds, Bats, and the Evolution of Animal Flight. ©2015 by Oxford University Press. 

Passage4:Questions 32-42 – History – October 2020 School Day SAT Test QAS

This passage is adapted from William Godwin,An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness.Originally published in 1793.

Passage5:Questions 43-52 -Natural Science – October 2020 School Day SAT Test QAS

Passage 1 is adapted from Elizabeth Pennisi, “How Angiosperms Took Over the World.”©2009 by American Association for the Advancement of Science. Passage 2 is adapted from Joseph E. Armstrong, How the Earth Turned Green: A Brief 3.8-Billion-Year History of Plants. ©2014 by the University of Chicago. Angiosperms are flowering plants whose seeds are encased in ovaries; gymnosperms lack flowers and have exposed seeds.