Stanford 10 study guide
Stanford 10 · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The Stanford Achievement Test Series, Tenth Edition - widely called the Stanford 10 or SAT10 - is a norm-referenced achievement battery published by Pearson for school-age students. It is used by schools, districts, and approved testing environments to measure academic growth against a national comparison group rather than against a fixed pass mark, and results are typically reported as scaled scores, national percentile ranks, and stanines. The Stanford 10 study guide has 4 sections and about 1,429 words.
01Reading: Comprehension and Vocabulary in Context
Reading items cluster into a few repeatable tasks. Vocabulary in context asks what a word means as it is used in this passage , not its most familiar dictionary sense.
383 words, about 2 min02Mathematics: Number Sense, Geometry, and Problem Solving
Number sense and operations (whole numbers, fractions, decimals, percents, integers) carry the most items; then measurement (units, perimeter, area, volume, time, money), geometry (angles, triangles, circles, coordinate plane), data analysis (tables, line and bar graphs, mean/median/mode/range, simple probability), patterns and beginning algebra (expressions, one-step equations), and multi-step word problems that combine two or more of these. A rate given per hour with a time given in minutes; a length in centimeters with the answer requested in meters.
356 words, about 2 min03Language: Mechanics, Usage, and Expression
Language items split into mechanics (capitalization, punctuation) and expression (usage, sentence structure, paragraph organization). Know these clusters: end marks; commas in a series, in dates, and after introductory phrases; apostrophes for possession and contractions; quotation marks around dialogue; subject–verb agreement, including across interrupting phrases; pronoun case and clear pronoun reference; consistent verb tense; adjective versus adverb; correct comparative and superlative forms; avoiding double negatives; and sentence completeness - no fragments, no run-ons, no comma splices.
333 words, about 2 min04Spelling: Patterns, Rules, and Homophones
Spelling items typically ask you to spot the misspelled word among four options or to choose the correct spelling for a blank. The patterns that pay off are: consonant doubling after a short vowel ( running , stopped , beginning ); dropping a silent e before a vowel suffix ( hope → hoping , but hopeful ); changing y to i ( carry → carried , but carrying ); i before e except after c ( receive , believe , with exceptions such as weird and their ); the -able/-ible , -ance/-ence , and -tion/-sion families; plurals ( boxes , babies , knives , potatoes ); and homophones ( their/there/they're , to/too/two , its/it's , principle/principal , stationary/stationery ).
357 words, about 2 min