This new portion of the SAT is geared toward assessing students’ aptitudes and interests to match with potential careers. This assessment will provide a focused look at skills and interests not typically addressed by the math, reading, and writing portions of the test. Results will allow students to learn about different fields of study and begin to think about their values and strengths.

In order to complete the survey, answer each question to the best of your ability. Try to answer as many questions as you can to ensure that the recommendations provided to you are as comprehensive as possible.

Interests

Do you enjoy working with your hands?

Do you prefer working on your own or in a group?

What’s your mile time?

But what about if you were running on uneven terrain?

What would it be then?

Do you enjoy stargazing?

Have you ever seen a UFO?

Did you tell anyone about it?

Would you enjoy mending a broken leg?

How about breaking a leg?

Are you good at puzzles?

Did you ever burn ants on the sidewalk as a kid?

Did it make you feel powerful?

Does that worry you?

Are you more extroverted or reserved?

Do you ever think about how weird it is that we have eyebrows?

Have you ever written a song?

How about a letter to a congressman?

How about a song to a congressman?

Which CNN news correspondent do you most relate to emotionally?

Is your Tamagotchi still alive?

Does it resent you as a parent?

Do you like to draw or paint?

If you could have dinner with anyone in the world, would you still ask for crayons?

What is your main criticism of Cheng’s Eigenvalue Comparison Theorem for Riemannian Geometry?

Do you make decisions based on logic or emotion?

Or the ghostly whispers of leaves rustling in the wind?

Did you once see your future self on the street but were too afraid to say anything to them because you were scared they would tell you that you did not accomplish what you always hoped to or that by approaching them you would create a wormhole in space-time?

Can you explain what a wormhole is?

Do you work well with numbers?

 

Aptitude and Special Skills

Draw the left foot of the person sitting behind you in the space below. Don’t let them see you.

Hypothetical: You arrive at a job interview and realize that you have forgotten a résumé. How can you escape the room using just a paper clip and a turn-of-the-century harpoon?

What number is four times larger than the sum of its digits and is also half the average number of coupons that print on a CVS receipt?

Write a poem in iambic pentameter about your favorite dissent written by Ruth Bader Ginsberg.

Create a Venn diagram describing the similarities and differences between a crocodile and an alligator.

Create a Venn diagram describing the similarities and differences between the smell of a pop-tart before heating and after heating.

Create a Venn diagram describing the similarities and differences between the two Venn diagrams you just made.

Fold the first page of this test into an origami boat modeled after the USS Merrimack.

Estimate the distance from my house to the closest Panera.

 

End of Examination

Please organize your test into a neat stack of papers and turn it in to your instructor. You will receive a letter in the mail in about two months. Enclosed will be an e-code to access the SAT online content. Once the e-code is entered, you will receive an email with an attached pdf of a map. Marked with a star on the map is the location of your test scores. Use context clues and the relative positions of certain stars and planets in the night sky to decipher where your test scores are located. Once retrieved, discuss the results with your guidance counselor to determine your next steps toward applying to a university.

-Janie Beaufore, Contributor