May 11

Tried Princeton Online practice. Easy questions so far. Like the fact that I am practicing on a computer based test for the first time. Its easier than a paper based test - more focus too.

Session 1: PS : 26/27.

Q: A retailer buys d dresses for a total of t dollars. If she sells all but b of the dresses at p dollars per dress, and donates the remaining dresses to charity, what is her total profit, in dollars, on the dresses that she sells?

a) (d-b)p - t
b) (d-b)p - dt
c) (d-b)t - p
d) dp - dt
e) (p-t)d - b

SC: 7/10

I spoke too soon about better focus - made one mistake as I was not concentrating.

Q Liverpool has slowly emerged from its post-industrial decline as a newly thriving city with a population of over five hundred thousand and more investors interested in large urban renewal projects than would have been thought possible twenty years ago.

a) of over five hundred thousand and more
b) of more than five hundred thousand and of more
c) more than five hundred thousand and greater
d) greater than five hundred thousand and greater
e) of more than five hundred thousand, with

Q Depending on one’s point of view, the proliferation of the television is either a great advance in communication or an unmistakable sign that the decline in high culture begun before the War is still continuing.

a) decline in high culture begun before the War is still continuing
b) decline of high culture begun before the War is still continuing
c) decline of high culture that began before the War is continuing
d) decline in culture in high places that began before the War is continuing
e) declining culture in high places that began before the War still continues

Q To distinguish quickly between king and coral snakes slithering out from under a rock, hikers should look at the bands of color on their bodies: red and yellow bands touch on the venomous coral snake, but they are always separated by black bands on the harmless king snake.
a) between king and coral snakes slithering
b) between kings and coral snakes that slither
c) among kings and coral snakes that are slithering
d) among king and coral snakes as they slither
e) kings from coral snakes slithering

CR: 9/10

An employee representative of the Quik Snak company has released a report containing information on about thirty employees at the company’s central meat-packing plant, all of whom were hospitalized with hepatitis. This report follows a similar one released last month by a local epidemiologist pointing out a sharp rise in the number of diagnoses of hepatitis among workers at the same plant. Quik Snak management, however, maintains that the ill employees must have contracted the disease while off the job.
Which one of the following statements, if true, would cast the most doubt on the Quik Snak management’s claim?

a) The thirty hospitalized workers were all diagnosed with other illnesses as well.
b) The epidemiologist’s report was scientifically sound.
c) The Quik Snak company is privately held, and will not publicly release its safety record.
d) All of the workers in question suffered from Hepatitis A, which is most frequently transmitted through tainted food.
e) No workers other than the thirty who were hospitalized show any signs of having hepatitis