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

Curve analysis for SAT March 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 Test

Questions 1-10 - Literature - Official March 11,2017 SAT Test Question and Answer Service paper

The passage is from Ian McEwan,Atonement.©2001 by Ian McEwan

Describes some of the characteristics and hobbies of this child Briony. For example, I am very tidy, like to hide secrets, and started writing my first story when I was 11 years old. Picture this girl vividly. The questions are mostly detailed questions.

Questions 11-21 - Social Science - Official March 11,2017 SAT Test Question and Answer Service paper

The passage is adapted from David Disalvo,What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite.©2011 by David DiSalvo.

This article describes a concept-metaphor, and its impression and effect on human psychology. At the beginning of the article, I cited a metaphor example, saying that if you haven’t been to a city and another person’s description of the city is messy, this metaphor will be deeply ingrained in our minds, even if we find it to be inaccurate. It is difficult to remove. The article then uses examples of scientific experiments to continue to use data to illustrate the impact of metaphor on human psychology. The example is to describe a crime in a city, using two different words to describe the crime, one is to describe the crime as "like beasts ravaging the city", the other is like "a virus spreading the city", and then let the respondent choose a solution, the ferocious "increasing" "Police and prison" and moderate "education and support the economy" have completely different results.

Questions 22-32 - Science - Official March 11,2017 SAT Test Question and Answer Service paper

This passage is adapted from Erik Stokstad, "Bone Study Shows T. Rex Bulked Up with Massive Growth Spurt"©2004 by American Association for the Advancement of Science. 

This article describes an experimental method of studying animal bone specimens to infer the age of dinosaurs and the relationship between their weight and age. The article gives a diagram of the relationship between age and weight of different dinosaur races, such as Tyrannosaurus. This article involves multiple chart questions.

Questions 33-42 -History - Official March 11,2017 SAT Test Question and Answer Service paper

This passage is adapted from Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Politics."Originally published in 1844.

The article expounds Emerson's views on the relationship between government and personal views, that is, the contradiction between the views of democracy and individualism.

Questions 43-52 -Science - Official March 11,2017 SAT Test Question and Answer Service paper

Passage 1 is adapted from"A Warm Little Pond?"©2013 by The Economist Newspaper Limited.Passage 2 is adapted from Stuart Clark,"Fire&Ice:What Really Happened to Water on Mars."©2008 by Reed Business Information, Ltd.

Both articles are about Mars. The first chapter talks about the existence of warm little ponds on Mars hundreds of millions of years ago. The article introduces the location and size of this lake, and discusses that because of the existence of this lake, it has the basic conditions for life, and puts forward a theoretical idea. The second article proposes that the traditional view that there is water on Mars and that prehistoric life can be hatched for a long time may be wrong. Studies have shown that Mars may have encountered a major change that the Earth has never experienced in a very short period of time. The water source has disappeared and there is not enough time for life to hatch.