Official 2017 January US SAT Test | SAT QAS in PDF with Answers

Curve analysis for SAT January 2017 USA exam:

• Reading - The overall difficulty is moderate mainly due to the comparatively easier passages. For the first 3 mistakes, 10 points off for each mistake. For the fourth to the eighth mistakes, 10 points off for every 2 mistakes. Given the lower difficulty of the reading section, the curve is normal. 
• Grammar - overall difficulty is normal, there wasn't any arcane concept being tested. 10 points off for 1 mistake; 30 off points for 2 mistakes; 50 points off for 5 mistakes. 
• Math - (sorry we don't have enough information on math for this particular test) 

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Reading

Passage 1: Questions 1-10 - 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.

Passage 2: Questions 11-20 - 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.

Summary: Talking about sharing websites, in fact, only a small group of people actually contribute a lot of information, that is to say, each person's supply of website information is very different.

Passage 3: Questions 21-30 - 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.

Passage 4: Questions 31-41 - 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.

Passage 5: 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.

Summary: People have been using single-year crops to grow crops all year round. Now scientists want to develop perennials.