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"Endeavors of a Vendor" by Long Do | AP Drawing

Long Do's work was selected for the 2024 AP Art and Design Digital Exhibit, which features exceptional artwork from AP students' final portfolios.

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"Endeavors of a Vendor" by Long Do | AP Drawing

A painting of a street vendor wearing a conical hat, a yellow face mask, and a bright blue jacket. They hold their wares on a strapped bag over their shoulder, including sunglasses, toy guns, and a rubber chicken.

College Board @collegeboard.org · 1d

⚠️ AWS Update:

After experiencing intermittent outages on Oct. 20 due to an issue with Amazon Web Services, we have restored full service to Bluebook, Test Day Toolkit, and other College Board products. We don't anticipate any residual effects, and schools should proceed with testing as planned.

College Board @collegeboard.org · 2d

⚠️ Important Information Regarding AWS Outages:

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College Board @collegeboard.org · 5d

Choice B is the best answer. The convention being tested is the use of punctuation between titles and proper nouns. No punctuation is needed to set off the proper noun "Marie-Denise Villers" from the title that describes Villers, "little-known French portrait artist." #SATPractice

College Board @collegeboard.org · 5d

💻 October 4 SAT scores will be available starting today.

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TEXT: October 4 SAT Score Release: Scores Release Today

College Board @collegeboard.org · 5d

Reply with your answer to this #SATPractice question, and we'll post the right one later today!

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TEXT: SAT Reading and Writing Practice

Long attributed to Jacques-Louis David, the preeminent Neoclassical painter of his day, the 1801 painting Marie Joséphine Charlotte du Val d'Ognes gained fresh attention in the 1990s when art historians discovered that the painting-which depicts a solitary young woman sketching-was actually the work of little-known French portrait Marie-Denise Villers (1774-1821).
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A) artist-
B) artist
C) artist:
D) artist,

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The Education Equation @eduequation.bsky.social · 7d

🎙️In Episode 3 of The Education Equation, @collegeboard.org President Jeremy Singer speaks with Jim Manly, Chief Schools Officer at @KIPP Foundation. They discuss why proven success models from charter school networks aren’t reaching more students.

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College Board @collegeboard.org · 7d

"The Cabin" by Landon Weber | AP 2-D Art and Design

Landon Weber's work was selected for the 2024 AP Art and Design Digital Exhibit, which features exceptional artwork from AP students' final portfolios.

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"The Cabin" by Landon Weber | AP 2-D Art and Design

A photo of an abandoned, moss-covered wooden cabin under a cloudy sky. The roof is teeming with life with lush vegetation and soft textures, almost inviting you to touch it.

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College Board @collegeboard.org · 12d

Choice D is correct. #SATPractice

TEXT: Choice D is correct. A line in the xy-plane with a slope of m and a y-intercept of (0, b) can be defined by an equation in the form y=mx+b. It's given that line r has a slope of 4 and passes through the point (0, 6). It follows that m = 4 and b = 6 Substituting 4 for m and 6 for b in the equation y=mx+b yields y = 4x + 6 Therefore, the equation y = 4x + 6 defines line r.

College Board @collegeboard.org · 12d

Reply with your answer to this #SATPractice question, and we'll post the right one later today!

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TEXT: SAT Math Practice

Line r in the xy-plane has a slope of 4 and passes through the point (0, 6). Which equation defines line r?
A) y = - 6x + 4
B) y = 6x + 4
C) y = 4x - 6
D) y = 4x + 6

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College Board @collegeboard.org · 14d

"Quite the Handful" and "Natural Beauty" by Kaylie Tennant | AP 2-D

Kaylie's work was selected for the 2024 AP Art and Design Digital Exhibit, which features exceptional artwork from AP students' final portfolios.

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"Quite the Handful" by Kaylie Tennant | AP 2-D Art and Design

A painted portrait of a bearded man walking. He's wearing sunglasses and large over-ear headphones, a red hooded jacket, and blue jeans. He's carrying two infants in matching green baby carriers on his chest and back. In his hand, he holds a large, light-brown reusable grocery bag containing a baguette and a bouquet of pink roses. The man is walking across a pale-blue background with a large, light circle behind him.

"Natural Beauty" by Kaylie Tennant | AP 2-D Art and Design

A painted portrait of a woman with dark hair and bangs, looking up and slightly to the left. She is wearing a dark, long-sleeved shirt with stitching near the collar. The background is a vibrant, deep green and is covered with large, bright pink lily flowers. The flowers frame her head and shoulders.

College Board @collegeboard.org · 19d

Choice C is the best answer. #SATPractice

TEXT: Choice C is the best answer because it most logically completes the text's discussion of Bastos's study of a wild kea parrot. In this context, "accidental" means unplanned or unintentional. The text first describes Bastos's study, which concerns a kea that is observed using small stones to preen its feathers. The text then mentions colleagues who are skeptical (that is, they have doubt) about Bastos's findings, and finally describes how Bastos and her team responded to the skepticism of those colleagues. Given that the colleagues mentioned in the text expressed skepticism regarding Bastos's findings, the best answer choice must be one that completes the text in a manner such that the skeptics' opinion regarding the kea's use of stones disagrees with that held by Bastos and her team. Since Bastos and her team showed that the kea's use of stones was deliberate (that is, intentional), the skeptics' opinion in this context must be that the kea's use of stones was unintentional, or accidental.

College Board @collegeboard.org · 19d

Reply with your answer to this #SATPractice question, and we'll post the right one later today!

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TEXT: SAT Reading and Writing Practice

Animal researcher Amalia P.M. Bastos led a 2021 study about a wild kea parrot that used small stones as tools to preen its feathers. Skeptical colleagues had initially suggested to Bastos that the kea's interactions with the stones might simply be but Bastos and her team showed that the kea was using the stones deliberately.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A) intriguing
B) obvious
C) accidental
D) observable

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College Board @collegeboard.org · 26d

Choice D is correct. #SATPractice

TEXT: Choice D is correct. It's given that the bowl starts with 20 ounces of water and has 9 ounces of water remaining after a period of time has passed. The amount of water the bowl has lost during the time period can be found by subtracting the remaining amount of water from the amount of water the bowl starts with, which yields 20-9 ounces, or 11 ounces. This means the bowl loses 11 ounces of water during that period of time. It's given that the amount of water decreases by 1 ounce every 4 days. Letting t represent the number of days the bowl has been uncovered, it follows that 1/4 = 11/t. Multiplying both sides of this equation by 4t yields t=44 Therefore, the bowl has been uncovered for 44 days.

College Board @collegeboard.org · 26d

💻 September 13 SAT scores will be available starting today.

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TEXT: September 13 SAT Score Release - Scores Release Today

College Board @collegeboard.org · 26d

Reply with your answer to this #SATPractice question, and we'll post the right one later today!

TEXT: SAT Math Practice

A bowl contains 20 ounces of water. When the bowl is uncovered, the amount of water in the bowl decreases by 1 ounce every 4 days. If 9 ounces of water remain in this bowl, for how many days has it been uncovered?
A) 3
B) 7
C) 36
D) 44

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College Board @collegeboard.org · 27d

College Board and @uschamber.bsky.social announced a landmark collaboration to bring new career-focused courses into high schools across the nation. We previewed AP® Career Kickstart™ courses alongside new research confirming the demand.

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College Board @collegeboard.org · 28d

"DNA Table" and "Making Habits" by Kaitlyn Hare | AP 3-D Art and Design

Kaitlyn Hare's work was selected for the 2024 AP Art and Design Digital Exhibit, which features exceptional artwork from AP students' portfolio.

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"DNA Table" by Kaitlyn Hare | AP 3-D Art and Design

A handcrafted wooden table with wavy beams as the supports that look like a DNA helix.

College Board @collegeboard.org · Sep 22

PSAT/NMSQT testing begins in October. Help your students feel ready for exam day with these reminders.
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Your Testing Device: Before test day, your school will tell you if you’re going to test with your own device or a school-managed device. You’ll go through a quick check-in process, and the test will be downloaded to your device.

Getting Scores on the BigFuture School App: You’ll have one chance to enter your mobile phone number so you can access the BigFuture School mobile app to get your scores delivered right to your phone.

Start Preparing with Bluebook: If you want to practice before the test, sign into the Bluebook Exam App and head to the Practice and Prepare section to try sample questions or a full-length practice test.

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The Education Equation @eduequation.bsky.social · Sep 22

🎙️ Episode 2 is here with Dacia Toll, co-Founder and co-CEO of Coursemojo. If you’ve ever thought about the role of AI in the classroom, this episode is for you.

Join the conversation on all podcast platforms. TheEducationEquation.org

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College Board @collegeboard.org · Sep 19

Choice B is the best answer. #SATPractice

TEXT: Choice B is the best answer because it presents the conclusion that most logically follows from the text’s discussion of the study by Versace and colleagues. The text indicates that newborn animals of some species are attracted to faces and to stimuli that resemble faces. These species, the text says, share two characteristics: they’re social and they practice parental care, meaning that parents care for their young. The text goes on to describe Versace and colleagues’ experiment, which showed that Testudo tortoises, which aren’t social and don’t practice parental care, were attracted to a stimulus that resembles a face. Since Versace and colleagues have shown that a species that isn’t social and doesn’t practice parental care nevertheless has the innate characteristic of being attracted to face-like stimuli, it follows that this characteristic shouldn’t be assumed to be an adaptation related to social interaction or parental care.

College Board @collegeboard.org · Sep 19

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TEXT: SAT Reading and Writing Practice:

Among social animals that care for their young, such as chickens, macaque monkeys, and humans, newborns appear to show an innate attraction to faces and face-like stimuli. Elisabetta Versace and her colleagues used an image of three black dots arranged in the shape of eyes and a nose or mouth to test whether this trait also occurs in Testudo tortoises, which live alone and do not engage in parental care. They found that tortoise hatchlings showed a significant preference for the image, suggesting that (blank).

Which choice most logically completes the text?
A) face-like stimuli are likely perceived as harmless by newborns of social species that practice parental care but as threatening by newborns of solitary species without parental care.
B) researchers should not assume that an innate attraction to face-like stimuli is necessarily an adaptation related to social interaction or parental care.
C) researchers can assume that the attraction to face-like stimuli that is seen in social species that practice parental care is learned rather than innate.
D) newly hatched Testudo tortoises show a stronger preference for face-like stimuli than adult Testudo tortoises do.

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College Board @collegeboard.org · Sep 17

"La Virgen de Guadalupe" by Jose Alberto Rojas | AP Drawing

Jose Rojas's work was selected for the 2024 AP Art and Design Digital Exhibit, which features exceptional artwork from AP students' final portfolios.

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"La Virgen de Guadalupe" by Jose Alberto Rojas | AP Drawing

Three panels of artwork with a central panel of La Virgen de Guadalupe. She's shown with a serene expression and a halo of light. Below her, a man with outstretched arms and wings colored like the Mexican flag is stamped by pink, red, and white roses. The side panels have a similar repeating rose pattern in black, white, pink, and red. The background of the entire piece includes graffiti elements.

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The Education Equation @eduequation.bsky.social · Sep 17

🎙️ Episode 1 is here and features a conversation with Sari Factor, Vice Chairman & Chief Strategy Officer at Imagine Learning.

Jeremy and Sari discuss the real-world complexities of education reform and how we should be rethinking K–12 curricula. TheEducationEquation.org

#education #technology

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The Education Equation @eduequation.bsky.social · Sep 16

🎙️ Welcome to The Education Equation, a podcast by @collegeboard.org President Jeremy Singer that explores how to make real, scalable progress in education using data-driven strategies and ideas.

Follow wherever you listen to podcasts. TheEducationEquation.org

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