Real SAT Questions MR.
Mohamed Sobhy
The Most Repeated Questions in DSAT (P2)
1- When discussing literary movements in Spain, scholars regularly characterize the
works of Antonio Machado as especially representative of the Generation of '98. The
reasons for this characterization may seem …………………… but linking Machado with
the Generation of '98 risks disregarding the subtleties in his style that do not neatly
conform to the conventions of this literary movement.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
a) Incongruous
b) Irrefutable
c) Pretentious
d) Provocative
2- From sculptures like Agora by Magdalena Abakanowiez, found at Grant Park, to
street art like Justus Roe's mural Standing Wave on South State Street, Chicago offers
an array of works to ………………………. the tastes of art lovers.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
a. Mitigate
b. Satiate
c. venerate
d. supplant
3- Whether the reign of a French monarch such as Louis III or Louis VI was
considered historically significant or; conversely, …………… relatively its trajectory was
shaped by questions of legitimacy and therefore cannot be understood without a
corollary understanding of the factors that allowed the monarch to assert a claim to
the throne successfully.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
a) inconsequential
b) momentous
c) benevolent
d) genuine
Real SAT Questions MR. Mohamed Sobhy
4- mosque that can accommodate approximately 30.000 people at once, The
Baiturrahman Grand Mosque in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, is a massive making it an
…………… sight to behold.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
a) Illusory
b) Idealized
c) Intricate
d) Imposing
5- Although the government of the Soviet Union attempted to ............................
Georgi Vladimov's novel Faithful kustan, copies of the Dook circulate in secret among
readers in several parts or the country.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
a. Replicate
b. Import
c. suppress
d. critique
6- Wenheng Zhang and colleagues have explored how convergent evolution— a
phenomenon that occurs when the same trait evolves independently in two
reproductively separate lineages- can result from a genetic mechanism shared by
both lineages. Meanwhile, Kohtaro Tanaka and colleagues have investigated how
convergence occurs through different genetic mechanisms, but the relative
prevalence of convergence through shared and different genetic processes is still
poorly understood. This motivated biologists Delbert A. Green II and Cassandra G.
Extavour to evaluate both types of convergence in a single study for their 2012
paper.
Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?
a. To situate Green and Extavour's study in the context of their field
b. To summarize Green and Extavour's criticism of the study by Zhang and
colleagues
c. To suggest that Green and Extavour's conclusions would be more persuasive if
they incorporated findings from the studies by Zhang and colleagues and
Tanaka and colleagues
d. To argue that Green and Extavour's study revealed a previously unrecognized
issue that evolutionary biologists need to address
Real SAT Questions MR. Mohamed Sobhy
7- The 2021 novel My Heart Is a Chainsaw confirmed that Stephen Graham Jones is
one of the most talented writers of horror fiction today. By featuring main characters
who are Blackfeet, like Jones himself, the novel also helped to ensure that
Indigenous people have a place within the horror genre. But Jones is hardly the only
Indigenous voice in horror: Lisa Fuller, a member of the Murri people of Australia,
has also written in the genre. Her acclaimed 2019 young adult novel Ghost Bird is set
in a Murri community
Which choice best describes the function of the underlined sentence?
a) It predicts that non-Indigenous authors will include more indigenous
characters in their work.
b) It challenges the widely held view that Stephen Graham Jones based my heart
is a Chainasaw in his own life.
c) It highlights the significance of the portrayal of Indigenous people in My Heart
Is a Chainsaw.
d) It asks why so many readers who don't enjoy the horror genre have purchased
My Heart Is a Chainsaw.
8- Researchers César A. Hidalgo, Elisa Castañer, and Andres Sevtsuk created a
computer model to predict the mix of gyms, car washes, and other businesses found
in a given neighborhood. How we define a neighborhood and its boundaries is
subjective, so the team used a clustering algorithm to locate dense groupings of
amenities that represent human-identified neighborhoods like Boston's Central
Square. The predictive model, which incorporates this algorithm, is sure to be
invaluable in determining the optimal mix of a city's amenities.
According to the text, why did the team employ a clustering algorithm?
a) The algorithm gave them an objective way to identify neighborhoods.
b) The algorithm could predict which types of businesses would be successful in a
given neighborhood.
c) The algorithm provided insight into how customers are made aware of new
gyms and car washes.
d) The algorithm could be used to evaluate the reasons for a business's closing.
9- Horizontal gene transfer involves the exchange of genetic material between
organisms not in a parent off-spring relationship. It’s common among prokarvotes
(single-celled organisms, such as the bacteria Enterococcus cecorum and Moraxella
caviae). The process can have the effect of increasing bacterial resistance to
antibiotics; as such, an understanding of how to prevent horizontal gene transfer
Real SAT Questions MR. Mohamed Sobhy
might result in the mitigation of dangerous pathogens (organisms that cause
disease).
Which choice best describes the function of the underlined sentence in the text as a
whole?
a- It suggests that a commonly held belief regarding an organism is mistaken.
b- It summarizes the history of research into a biological phenomenon.
c- It illustrates why one organism may pose more of a threat than another.
d- It explains a practical benefit of researching a particular biological process.
10- "Poetry" is a 1919 poem by Marianne Moore. The poem highlights an
ambivalence toward poetry as the speaker acknowledges its merits while also
expressing a sense of displeasure, writing …………..
Which quotation from "Poetry" most effectively illustrates the text?
a) "nor is it valid / to discriminate against business documents and / school-
books; all these phenomena are important."
b) "One must make a distinction / however: when dragged into prominence by half
poets, the result is not / poetry"
c) "when [poems) become so derivative as to become unintelligible, the / same
thing may be said for all of us—that we / do not admire what / we cannot
understand."
d) "Reading (poetryl, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers that
there is in / it after all, a place for the genuine."
11- Historians point to the rule of the Piast dynasty as crucial to the formation of the
Polish state. However, some differentiate between members of the dynasty like
Wladyslaw I Herman, who ruled as duke from 1079 to 1102 CE and less well-
documented figures like Lestek, who is said to have ruled in the 9th and 10th
centuries but whose historical actuality is disputed. Lestek appears in the Gesta
principum Polonorum, a chronicle of medieval Polish history written between 1112
and 1118. However, the chronicle's documentation of Lestek relies on oral tradition,
unlike its records of later rulers.
According to the text, what is a difference between how historians view Lestek and
how they view Wladyslaw I Herman?
Real SAT Questions MR. Mohamed Sobhy
a- Historians believe that the Gesta principum Polonorum provides more evidence
for Lestek's existence than it does for Wladyslaw I Herman's existence.
b- Historians agree that Wladyslaw I Herman existed, but disagree about whether
Lestek existed.
c- Historians agree that Lestek ruled Poland much later than Wiadyslaw I Herman.
d- Historians find the orally transmitted stories affirming the existence of
Wladyslaw I Herman to be more convincing than similar stories about Lestek.
12- Ships in the British Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815) were
ranked based on military strength. The system considered the number of a ship's
cannons and decks. "First-rate" was the highest ranking, and "sixth-rate" was the
lowest ranking, followed by unranked ships. The size of a ship's crew was based on
this ranking: first-rate ships had between 850 and 875 crewmen, while lower-ranked
ships had fewer. Two of the ships in the British Royal Navy from this period were the
Boyne (98 cannons and three decks) and the Caledonia (120 cannons and three
decks). Of these two, only the Caledonia was ranked a first-rate ship. It can therefore
be concluded that ……………….
Which choice most logically completes the text?
a) the Caledonia needed a crew larger than 875 people in order to operate
efficiently.
b) the Boyne had a larger crew than the Caledonia.
c) all ships with at least 98 cannons had a crew of at least 850 people.
d) some ships with three decks had a crew of fewer than 850 people.
13- Baleen whales eat up to 30 percent of their total body mass in krill (tiny
shrimplike creatures) per day. So, in one day, an Antarctic minke whale weighing
10,000 kg could eat 3.000 kg, while a southern right whale weighing 80,000 kg could
ingest a whopping 24,000 kg. Over the last century, baleen whale populations have
declined, and contrary to some scientists’ expectations, so have krill populations.
Matthew S. Savoca and colleagues resolve this apparent discrepancy by pointing out
that baleen whales cycle iron in the ocean, helping support phytoplankton
populations, which, in turn, sustain krill populations.
Based on the text, what can most reasonably be concluded about Antarctic minke
and southern right whales?
Real SAT Questions MR. Mohamed Sobhy
a. Populations of both Antarctic minke and southern right whales have declined
significantly over the last century due to decreasing levels of iron in the ocean.
b. As krill consumption by Antarctic minke whales has decreased, the krill
consumption of southern right whales has increased.
c. the southern right whale is able to eat more krill per day than the Antarctic
minke whale is.
d. Both Antarctic minke and southern right whales can eat krill, but of the two only
the Antarctic minke whale can also subsist on phytoplankton.
14- The Bronze Age in Britain lasted from around 2500 BCE to approximately 700
BCE. Collections of metal items (called hoards) from all periods of the Bronze Age
have been found in Britain, including the Plymstock hoard of artifacts from the 21st
century BCE, unearthed around 1869, and the much later Duddingston Loch hoard of
artifacts from the 9th century BCE, unearthed around 1778. Sometime in the Middle
Bronze Age (approximately from the 14th century BCE to the 10th century BCE),
metalsmiths in Britain began to develop swords for the first time. This fact helps
explain why, whereas evidence of sword production was found in ……………….
Which choice most logically completes the text?
a. both the Plymstock hoard and the Duddingston Loch hoard, where included
evidence of more refined sword production.
b. the Duddingston Loch hoard, evidence was found in the items in the hoard.
c. the Plymstock hoard, no intact swords were found among the items in the
hoard.
d. hoards discovered around 1778, no such evidence was found in hoards that
were discovered later.
15- Rafael Nunez and colleagues studied how members of the Yupno, an
Indigenous group in Papua New Guinea, conceptualize time. The researchers
recorded Yupno speakers explaining certain temporal words and phrases, such as
kalip bishap, a past-oriented expression that translates to "past times," and coded
each speaker's manual gestures. Previous research has found a tendency in many
cultures to make temporal distinctions using spatial concepts and gestures,
particularly along egocentric axes (i.e., relative to the orientation of the speaker): for
instance, Spanish speakers often refer to the left/right axis to describe events in
time. In an anthropology paper, a student claims that the tendency toward ego-
based conceptualizations of time is universal.
Which finding, if true, would most directly weaken the student's claim?
Real SAT Questions MR. Mohamed Sobhy
a. A Yupno speaker points in opposite directions when indicating a past event
versus a future event.
b. Some Yupno grammatical structures used when talking about time are also used
in Spanish.
c. Although Yupno speakers and Spanish speakers both use gestures to indicate
orientation in time, Yupno speakers tend to use fewer gestures overall when
speaking than Spanish speakers do.
d. When Yupno speakers who are outdoors use gestures to refer to the future, they
point uphill from their current location regardless of which way they are facing
16- Arthurian legends (tales related to the character of King Arthur) derive from
many sources, such as Preiddeu Annwn, composed around 900, and The High Book
of the Grail from the early 13th century. One of the most significant sources,
Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain, was written in Latin in the
1130s; some material from it was later adapted by the Norman poet Wace into the
Roman de Brut in 1155. But while the Roman de Brut includes references to the
famous Round Table at which Arthur's knights assembled, those seem to be Wace's
own inventions, which suggests that ………………
Which choice most logically completes the text?
a- Geoffrey of Monmouth's accounts of Arthurian legends in his History are more similar
overall in content to the accounts in The High Book of the Grail than they are to the
accounts in Roman de Brut
b- no Arthurian legend that was available to Geoffrey of Monmouth had any mention of
the Round Table.
c- Geoffrey of Monmouth was unaware of stories of the Round Table when composing
his History, though historians know that works containing such stories were available
to him.
d- Roman de Brut is more historically accurate than History, because The High Book of
the Grail had not been written when Geoffrey of Monmouth was writing his work
17- Text 1
In separate studies, Lingbo Meng and colleagues and Sanda Wahbi and colleagues
examined whether plants transfer nutrients to one another using a common
mycorrhizal network (CMN) —a lattice of fungal strands in the soil. Meng and
colleagues excluded all pathways other than the CMN by using barriers to keep the
plants' root systems separate while allowing mycorrhizal strands through —a crucial
step Wahbi and colleagues' study did not take.
Text 2
Real SAT Questions MR. Mohamed Sobhy
Meng and colleagues took the necessary precaution of separating the plants’ root
systems (thereby excluding root-to-root transmission). However, any barrier used
must allow the thread-like hyphae of a CMN to pass through, and this permeability
would also allow liquids through. Thus, the researchers' experimental design cannot
ensure that any nutrient transfer observed can be attributed to a CMN and not to
some other pathway.
Based on the texts, the author of Text 1 and the author of Text 2 would most likely
agree with which statement?
e- A barrier that is impervious to both roots and fungal strands is necessary to evaluate
nutrient transfer via a CMN.
f- The barriers used in Meng and colleagues' study effectively excluded root-to-root
transmission of nutrients.
g- Wahbi and colleagues' study did not find convincing evidence of nutrient transfer
between individual plants.
h- Excluding root-to-root transfer of nutrients between plants is sufficient to ensure that
any observed nutrient transfer must involve a CMN.
18- Within Earth's biomes, there are four main types of desert: arid, semiarid.
coastal, and cold. The Puntland Desert in eastern Africa is an arid ……………………. it is
one of the largest such deserts in the world, with a total area of about 200,000 km.
a. desert, for example;
b. desert, for example,
c. desert, for example
d. desert; for example,
19- Featuring works by the photographers Dora Maar and Rogi Andre, the
2021 exhibition The New Woman Behind the Camera set out to provide a wide-
ranging overview of photography by women in the 1920s through the ______ given
the collection's breadth of more than 120 photos, its efforts were largely successful.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard
English?
a) 1950s
b) 1950s and
c) 1950, and
d) 1950s,
Real SAT Questions MR. Mohamed Sobhy
20- "Coalition" is the term for a group of male ………………… across the Greater Kruger
National Park of South Africa, many coalitions vie for territory. Between 2006 and
2012, the lions of the Mapogo coalition-including Pretty Boy, Kinky Tail, and
Makhulu—thrived within a part of the park called the Sabi Sands.
a. Lions
b. Lions,
c. Lions and
d. Lions, and
21- With their distinctive cone shapes and steeply sloping sides, the volcanoes * El
Rojo Norte (Chile) and Almolonga (Guatemala) may look similar from afar. Gari
Mayberry and other volcanologists, ………………. can tell by how each was formed that
El Rojo Norte is a cinder cone volcano, while Almolonga is a composite volcano.
a. In addition
b. For example
c. Therefore
d. though
22- Apia is the capital city of Samoa and, ……………….. roughly 40,000 people, home to
an impressive 21 percent of Samoa's total population.
a) contains
b) containing
c) has contained
d) contained
23- The Yamuna River, which is 855 miles long, ………… into the Ganga River.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions o English?
a. flows
b. flow
c. have flowed
d. are flowing
24- Humans inherit specific physical traits (like having type 0 ro type AB blood) from
their parents. ______ cats inherit specific physical traits (like having short or long fur)
from their parents.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
Real SAT Questions MR. Mohamed Sobhy
a. In other words,
b. In conclusion,
c. Howeve,
d. Similarly,
25- A group of ecologists led by Axel Mithöfer at the Max Planck Institute for
Chemical Ecology in Germany examined the defensive responses of two varieties of
the sweet potato ______ TN57, which is known for its insect resistance, and TN66,
which is much more susceptible to pests.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard
English?
A. plant.
B. plant;
C. plant
D. plant:
26- The artistic talents of Barbara Chase-Riboud, most known for her 1979 historical
novel Sally Hemings and the conversation it inspired, ______ limited to the realm of
prose: she first excelled in sculpture, where her affinity for bronze—a material she
described as “timeless” due to its use across eras and cultures—became part of her
artistic identity.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard
English?
A. hasn’t been
B. wasn’t
C. isn’t
D. aren’t
27- Most conifers (trees belonging to the phylum Coniferophyta) are evergreen. That
is, they keep their green leaves or needles year-round. However, not all conifer
species are evergreen. Larch trees, ______ lose their needles every fall.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
A. for instance,
B. nevertheless,
C. meanwhile,
D. in addition,
