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Introduction
The Ethiopian University Entrance Examination Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) is given to test the
mental ability of students who will join a higher education The test has two main sections with a total of
60 items. The first section contains verbal reasoning items and the other section contains quantitative
reasoning items. The English section (The verbal reasoning) has 35 questions while the rest
(quantitative reasoning) part has 25 questions. All the items are of choice type.

The Verbal reasoning part contains 35 items with different sections. The sections are verbal Analogy,
Antonyms, Synonyms, Language use, sentence completion, Reading passage, logical and Analytical
Reasoning.

This material provides five model tests covering the most important parts of the SAT. Even though this
it is primarily prepared to help students who are taking the Ethiopian scholastic Aptitude test for college
and university Entrance, it is also valuable for other students who are planning to take the SAT or GRE
for international Universities.

The material presents the items: Analogy, Antonyms, Synonyms, Language use and Sentence
Completion. All sections and questions are presented as models showing every instruction and approach
that you used in the real SAT. Each section has 28 items followed by answers and explanations. Since
the SAT words are frequently big and uncommon, their definitions are provided so as to help students
practice more without going to dictionaries. It also helps them to build their vocabularies as well.

I believe this material plays a significant role in your preparation to SAT. It also helps you to believe in
yourself that you can beat the SAT.
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We shall now study how to deal with each section One by one using examples.

I. Analogy

In this section you are given with a related pair of words or phrases followed by four choices, with other
pairs of words, you are expected to select the pair that best expresses a relationship similar to the
original pairs which are given in capital letters.

These items test your ability to determine the relationship between a given pair of words and recognize a
similar relationship between a different pair of words. The relations between the words may appear in
different forms from a wide range of fields.

There exist a specific relationship between the words given in order to test your ability of how smartly
you put ideas at a given period of times thereby, measuring your mental fitness.

When you attempt such items the first and most important thing is to determine the specific relationship
that exists between the capitalized pairs. The best way to do this is, making a sentence that shows how
these capitalized words are related.

Study the following examples:

LAWYER: COURT

You can see that a court is a place where a works.

SILENCE: NOISE

Do you see that NOISE is the opposite of SILENCE?

BOTANY: PLANT

You can see that BOTANY is a field of study of PLATNTS by definition.

PAW: CAT

Do you see that PAW is a body part of a CAT ?

MUMBLE: SPEAK

Do you see that to MUMBLE is to SPEAK indistinctly (It shows manner)

DRILL: BORE
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Do you see that a drill is a tool used to BORE holes?

PAINTER: BRUSH

Do you see that a painter uses a brush?

DOVE: PEACE

Do you see that a dove is the symbol peace?

COLT: STALION

A COLT is a young STALION

COW: OX

A Cow is a female as opposed to an OX

RECIDIVIST: BACKSLIDER

A RECIDIVIST is a backslider or a habitual offender.

LION: CARNIVOR

A Lion is meat-eating animal or a carnivore.

AMPHIBIAN: FROG

A frog is an example of an amphibian.

Well, you have now come to learn how you can make sentences that show relation between the
capitalized word pairs. As you can observe in the examples given above the relations may be of: class,
definition, manner, degree, Time sequence, spatial sequence, sex, function, worker and tool, worker and
place, tool and its action, antonyms, synonyms etc

After you make sentence that correctly shows the relation between the capitalized word pairs, your next
task is to select the word pair that expresses similar relation to that of the capitalized word pair study the
following examples to see how you can work out the items.
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1) HELMET: HEAD
A. pedal foot B. gun: hand
C. breast plate: chest D. pendent: neck
Helmet protects your head from dangers. Check out the sentences:
-Pedal protects your foot from danger – no
-Gun protects your hand from danger – No
-Breast plate protects chest from danger – Yes
-Pendant protects your neck from danger – No
Therefore the correct answer is C
2) CARPENTER : SAW
A. lawyer brief B. Painter: brush
C. stenographer: type writer D. seamstress: scissors
A saw is a tool used by a carpenter to cut things used by a seamstress for cutting.
D is the correct answer
3) ARCHITECT: BUILDING:: SCULPTOR: _______
A. museum B. stone
C. chisel D. statue
An architect designs buildings. Apply the sentence to the words given. The right one is sculptor
designs statues.
‘D’ is the correct answer
4) SCALES : JUSTICE::
A. weights: measures B. laws: courts
C. torch: liberty D. Balance: equity
SCALES are a symbol of justice. Apply the sentence to the words given. Yes! Torch is a symbol of
liberty.
‘C’ is the correct answer.
5) FOX: CUNNING
A. dog: playful B. hyena: amusing
C. colt: sturdy D. Beaver: industrious
Fox is cunning (Its behavior / quality) like a beaver which is industrious (hard working) as its
behaviors / quality.
‘D’ is the correct answer
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6) RUBBER: PLASTIC
A. paper: brittle B. diamond: hard
C. metal: heavy D. dust: allergic
Rubber is plastic in its quality. Try applying the sentence to the rest of the pairs.
-paper is brittle – no
-Diamond is hard - yes
-Metal is heavy – may be
-Dust is allergic – may be
‘B’ is the correct answer
7) METAPHOR: FIGURATIVE::
A. fable: contemporary B. Epic: literal
C. irony: dramatic D. precept: instructive
Metaphor is an example of figurative speech like a precept as an example of instructive (written
commands)
8) EAR : LISTEN::
A. eye: see B. nose: odor
C. mouth: chew D. lung: breath
Ear is the organ we use to listen. Apply the same sentence. Eye is the organ we use to see.
A’ is the correct answer.
9) BUZZ : BEE::
A. ring: explosion B. croak: frog
C. lion: roar D. echo: sound
Buzz is the sound bees make. Let’s make the sentences with the words given:
Ring is the sound explosions make – No.
Croak is the sound frogs makes - Yes
Lion is the sound made by roar – No
Echo is the sound sounds make – ?
Don’t let the in correct order fool you as in choice ‘C’ - it would be right if the order of words
were reversed.
‘B’ is the correct answer.