Amazing Data

The following is a guest post by Charles
Horn, Emmy-nominated writer of Robot
Chicken and author of The
Laugh Out Loud Guide: Ace the SAT Exam without Boring Yourself to Sleep!

Whenever I tutor for the SAT, I invariably see either a boredom factor
or a stress factor come into play. If they’re bored, they just won’t
put in the effort, and if they’re too stressed, their learning ability
becomes impaired. Comedy helps in both regards, because it reduces stress
and keeps them interested and engaged. The other remarkable thing about
comedy is that it actually increases recall as well, so they’ll
remember the information better on test day (and apply the same concepts
to the more boring SAT questions).

I won’t lie – Robot Chicken is still way more fun than studying
for the SAT. But I figure if they’re going to be forced to take
the dreaded test, at least they deserve to have a little fun along the
way.

The Laugh Out Loud Guide: Ace the SAT Exam without Boring Yourself to Sleep!
uses comedy to prepare students for the dreaded SAT. Here
are a few sample questions. How would you do?

1. Yo Momma so _______, when you mail her a letter, you need two zip
codes.

(A) diaphanous
(B) luminous
(C) ravenous
(D) grisly
(E) corpulent

2. At a Saks Fifth Avenue store, Winona Ryder examines four distinct
blouses, five distinct dresses, and two distinct handbags. How many different
combinations of items can she shoplift if she takes exactly one blouse,
two dresses, and a handbag?

3.My parents, Brad and Angelina, went
to Vietnam and all they got me was this lousy brother.

(A) went to Vietnam and all they got me was this lousy brother
(B) went to Vietnam, all they got me was this lousy brother
(C) went to Vietnam, this lousy brother was all they got me
(D) went to Vietnam; and all they got me was this lousy brother
(E) went to Vietnam; and this lousy brother was all they got me

4. On a scale of 1 to 10, Warren’s hotness can be expressed as
a ,
where a and b are positive integers and ab.
If Warren’s hotness is equal to 2,
what is the value of a – b?

(A) -10
(B) -1
(C) 0
(D) 1
(E) 10

5. Loading The Toddmeister
onto a gurney, the emergency
        A
medical technicians, who happened
to be Kappa Omega
                                      
B
Kappa brothers themselves
and the winning team of the
                             
C
2000 Chug-a-thon, was relieved
to see that the
                                   
D
championship drinking trophy was still out on display.

No error
     E

6.
In the figure, if x = 5 – y, what is the value of y2 + 25?
(A) 7
(B) 32
(C) 39
(D) 56
(E) 64

7. After a _______ investigation, the inspector _______ that faulty wiring
was foshizzle the cause of the fire that burned down Snoop Dogg’s
hizzouse.

(A) lengthy, realized
(B) complete, prognosticated
(C) cursory, ruled
(D) thorough, determined
(E) copious, charged

 

ANSWERS:

E
80
A
D
D
B
D

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Charles
Horn is the author of The
Laugh Out Loud Guide: Ace the SAT Exam without Boring Yourself to Sleep!

He is an Emmy-nominated comedy writer with credits including Robot Chicken
and the Robot Chicken: Star Wars special, as well as The Tonight Show
with Jay Leno. He also has a Ph.D. from Princeton University. Charles
writes a blog and a comic
strip. You can also check out his education-themed
and other fun t-shirts.

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