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Sample Passage
The sample passage is followed by six questions based on its content.
Since the days of Nellie Bly, Latin
1
America had been for editors a place to send
2
women who insisted on being foreign
3
correspondents. Compared to Europe, Latin
4
America was considered “safely” close to
5
home. Women covered the building of the
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Panama Canal and the occupation of Haiti by
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the United States Marines. By the 1980’s,
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women were the accepted authorities on Latin
9
America, and they appeared in force to cover
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repression in Chile, strife in El Salvador, and
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the war of the Contras against the Sandinista
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government in Nicaragua.
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Shirley Christian, with the Associated
14
Press, staked out Latin America when it was
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considered less than a choice assignment.
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When revolution and terrorism promoted the
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story to page one, her reputation soared.
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Returning to the region for the Miami Herald,
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she won the Pulitzer Prize for International
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Reporting in 1981, the first time it was
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awarded for coverage of Latin America.
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Before Georgie Anne Geyer branched out
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to cover the world, her articles for the Chicago
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Daily News helped put Latin America on page
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one. Geyer and Henry Gill, a Chicago Daily
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News photographer, slipped into Guatemala in
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1967 and traveled with guerrilla forces while
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the Guatemalan Army, led by United States
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officers, pursued them. Her stories dramatized
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and drew attention to the developing crisis.
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Her initial success in Latin America led
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eventually to a three-times-weekly column
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distributed by Universal Press Syndicate to
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more than 100 newspapers. She also achieved
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celebrity status as a panelist on the television
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show “Washington Week in Review,”
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produced by the Public Broadcasting System.
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Of her career, Geyer wrote:
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In my … lifetime I went from the
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beginning… from the point where
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women like me were considered
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misfits to a point where we became
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extremely fashionable and were
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ironically and incongruously called
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“role models,” to the third point,
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which is where we are trying
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desperately to have everything.
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Sample Questions
Directions
: Answer the questions on the basis of what is stated
or implied
in the passage. Darken the
circle for your answer choice in the sample answer sheet at the bottom of the page. After you finish
answering the questions, turn to the next page and evaluate your answers.
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1. The primary purpose of the passage is to
(A) provide a history of the women’s
movement.
(B) describe the living conditions in
Latin America.
(C) describe one route by which a
number of women became
successful journalists.
(D) compare the career of Georgie Anne
Geyer with the careers of Nellie Bly
and Shirley Christian.
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2. Lines 1–8 (“Since . . . Marines”) imply
that editors did all of the following
EXCEPT
(A) consider Latin America dangerous.
(B) worry about the safety of female
correspondents.
(C) publish stories by women
correspondents in Latin America.
(D) try to dissuade women from
becoming foreign correspondents.
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3. Which does the author mention in the first
paragraph (lines 1–13) as a reason that
female reporters were sent to Latin
America?
(A) Latin America was relatively close
to the United States.
(B) More female reporters than male
reporters spoke Spanish.
(C) Women were the accepted
authorities on Latin America.
(D) The countries in Latin America
admired female reporters.
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4. It can be inferred from the first sentence of
the passage that Nellie Bly was
(A) an editor.
(B) Latin American.
(C) working in Panama.
(D) a foreign correspondent.
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5. According to the second paragraph
(lines 14
–22), the rise in Shirley
Christian’s reputation was a result of
(A) becoming a panelist on a weekly
television show.
(B) the novelty of women being foreign
correspondents.
(C) an increase in public interest in
events in Latin America.
(D) branching out to cover the world
instead of only Latin America.
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6. The author quotes Georgie Anne Geyer in
lines 40–
48 in order to show that
(A) women helped prevent strife in Latin
America.
(B) many women desire to be role
models.
(C) female journalists have had to
overcome different problems at
different times.
(D) female journalists are now well
trained compared with their earlier
counterparts.
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Answers to Sample Questions
This passage discusses the roles of women who served as foreign correspondents for Latin America.
Sample Question 1:
This item asks you to choose the sentence that best states the main purpose of the passage. Choice (C) is
the best answer because the passage focuses on how women became successful foreign correspondents.
Choices (A) and (B) are incorrect because the passage does not include information about the women’s
movement or living conditions in Latin America. Choice (D) is incorrect because Georgie Anne Geyer’s
career is not compared to the careers of other correspondents.
Sample Question 2:
This item asks you to identify which answer is not implied in lines 1–8. The correct answer is choice
(A), because editors actually considered Latin America “‘safely’ close to home.” Answer choices (B)
and (C) are both implied by the passage, and (D) is as well, since if female journalists “insisted” on
being foreign correspondents, it is implied that editors tried to dissuade them from doing so.
Sample Question 3:
This item asks you to determine which answer is a reason given in the first paragraph for sending female
journalists to Latin America. Answer choice (A) is correct because lines 4
–5 state that “Latin America
was considered ‘safely’ close to home.” Answer choices (B) and (D) contain information not stated in
the passage. While (C) is true, it is not presented as a reason why female journalists were sent to Latin
America, but rather as a consequence of their having been sent.
Sample Question 4:
This item asks you to determine which answer is implied by information in the first sentence. Choice
(D) is the correct answer because the sentence implies Nellie Bly was one of the first “women who
insisted on foreign correspondents.” Answer choices (A), (B), and (C) are incorrect because they are not
conclusions that can be drawn from the first sentence.
Sample Question 5:
This item asks you to identify the cause of the rise in Shirley Christian’s reputation. The correct answer
is choice (C), because the passage states that her reputation “soared” after stories about Latin America
reached page one of newspapers, implying that the region had become more interesting to the public.
Answer choices (A) and (C) are incorrect because it was Geyer, not Christian, who branched out to
cover the whole world and became a television panelist. Choice (B) is incorrect because the passage
does not imply that Christian’s reputation was due to being a female foreign correspondent or that
female foreign correspondents were particularly rare.
Sample Question 6:
This item asks you to determine the purpose of the quote. The correct answer is (C), because the focus
of the quote is on three different problems female journalists have faced. Choices (A), (B), and (D) are
not supported by the passage.
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Mathematics Achievement
(Section 4)
Mathematics Achievement tests mathematical skills you have learned from the very beginning of your
school career. All questions in this section are aligned to the standards articulated by the NCTM. As
with the questions in the Quantitative Reasoning section, this section will include questions from these
NCTM standards:
Number and Operations
Algebra
Geometry
Measurement
Data Analysis and Probability, and
Problem Solving
For more information on these mathematical standards, visit www.nctm.org
.
The Mathematics Achievement section will test your ability to identify and solve problems related to the
NCTM standards in the six areas listed above. Specifically, the Mathematic Achievement questions have
these characteristics:
Unlike the Quantitative Reasoning section, you may need to do calculations to determine the
correct answer for some questions.
Answer choices may represent misconceptions or procedural errors (such as incorrect order of
mathematical operations in a multi-step problem) but there are no trick questions or trick
answers.
Unlike the Quantitative Reasoning section, some items may require knowledge of mathematical
terminology as indicated in the grade appropriate NCTM standards.
Although conversions between units of measurement may be required to correctly answer the
problem, students do not have to memorize conversions in the U.S. standard system (such as
twelve inches equals one foot). If conversions within the U.S. standard system are required to
find the correct answer to the question, they are given in the question.
Common metric units will be found in some questions in this section, but conversions within the
same unit for volume, length, mass or temperature in the metric system are not provided. (i.e.,
conversions between centimeters and meters).
You may not use a calculator or scratch paper. You may write in this book, since you may write in the
test booklet when you take the ISEE.
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Strategies:
Read the entire question and study any related graphic images for each question before looking
at the answer choices.
Remember all four answer choices are logical answers—there are no answer choices such as “all
of the above” or “none of the above.”
Next determine your answer and look for it in the answer choices provided.
o To save you time, all answers are listed in sequential order from greatest to least, or least
to greatest unless the answer could be determined by using the ordered answers. (For
example, a question which asks which number is the largest number would not have its
answer choices ordered by value.)
Remember to check your work, since often the answer choices represent common mathematical
mistakes or procedural misconceptions.
Some questions may be unfamiliar to you because you may not have yet covered that particular
math concept at your current school. If you do not know the answer to the question, or if the
answer you have determined is not listed as an answer choice, you may choose to make a mark
in your test booklet (not your answer document), skip that question for now, and move on to the
next question. Remember all questions on the ISEE have equal value. If you have time before the
end of this test section, you may be able to come back to it later.
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Numbers and Operations
Sample Questions
Directions
: Answer the following sample questions. Darken the circle for your answer choice in the
sample answer sheet at the bottom of the page. After you finish answering the questions, turn to the next
page and evaluate your answers.
1. What is the value of the numerical expression
5
2
3.2 10
4.0 10
?
(A) 8.0 10
7
(B) 8.0 10
6
(C) 8.0 10
3
(D) 8.0 10
2
2. The price of tomatoes increased from $1.20 per pound to $1.50 per pound. What was the percent
increase in the price of tomatoes?
(A) 15%
(B) 20%
(C) 25%
(D) 30%
Students should be able to
classify, perform operations on, make reasonable estimates of, and compare whole numbers,
integers, rational numbers, irrational numbers, real numbers and complex numbers; and
perform operations on matrices and vectors, and compute combinations and permutations.
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Answers to Sample Questions
Sample Question 1:
The correct answer is answer choice (B), 8.0 × 10
6
.
One way the answer can be found is by writing out the values in standard form:
320,000
0.04
=
32,000,000
4
= 8,000,000 = 8.0 × 10
6
.
Sample Question 2:
The correct answer to the question is answer choice (C), 25% .
1.50 – 1.20 = 0.30;
0.30
1.20
=
1
4
or 25% .
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Algebraic Concepts
Sample Questions
Directions
: Answer the following sample questions. Select the answer that most clearly illustrates the
concepts asked for. Darken the circle for your answer choice in the sample answer sheet at the bottom of
the page. After you finish answering the questions, turn to the next page and evaluate your answers.
1. What is the solution set to the inequality 5 –2x + 1 9?
?
(A) 2 x 4
(B) –
4 x –2
(C) x 4, x 2
(D) x –
4, x –2
2. The first five terms of an arithmetic sequence of numbers are shown.
–3, 2, 7, 12, 17
Which expression represents the nth term of this sequence?
(A) n – 3
(B) n + 5
(C) 5n – 2
(D) 5n – 8
Students should be able to
understand relations and functions when presented as symbolic equations, graphs, and tables;
model real-world situations using symbolic equations and graphs; and
use symbolic manipulation to determine equivalent expressions, equations, and inequalities.
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Answers to Sample Questions
Sample Question 1:
The correct answer to the question is answer choice (B), – 4 x –2 .
One way the answer can be found is by
subtracting 1 from each part of the inequality, giving 4 –2x 8;
dividing by –2, giving –2 x – 4, or written in standard form – 4 x –2.
Sample Question 2:
The correct answer to the question is answer choice (D), 5n – 8 .
One way the answer can be found is by noticing that the values increase by 5 each time, so the sequence
is linear with a slope of 5, or is in the form
5n + b,
for some number b. The first term of the sequence is –3, so
–3 = 5(1) + b, and
b = –8.
The expression representing the nth term of the sequence is 5n – 8.
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