"I HAVE AN ADMISSION TO MAKE" TASP by Richard J. Rome Copyright © 1999, All rights reserved.

Table of Contents

Registration/Information for the TASP test.............................05

Forewords:
Dr. Joseph Cooper, Professor of Political Science and
former Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs,
Johns Hopkins University...............................................06
Dr. William E. Fitzgibbon III, Chairman and Professor
of the Department of Mathematics,
University of Houston..................................................07

Acknowledgments........................................................08
HIGHER SCORES FOR HIGHER EDUCATION.....................................09

Introduction...........................................................13
    - If you pay peanuts to prep.......................................16
    - guessing: defensive/offensive/horseshoes and hand grenades.......16
    - cups and doughnuts during the PSAT and the SAT...................18
    - the possibilities worth considering..............................19
    - introducing the keys.............................................26
    - Manage, to have a good time on your test.........................28

THE MATH PREP/TASP; TEXAS ACADEMIC SKILLS PROGRAM
MATH 1: fractions, ratios, percentages and averages....................27
    - reinforcement test Math-I (answers and solutions)................68(73)
MATH II: the real number system........................................80
    - integers (are integral), odds, evens.............................80
    - algebraic operations.............................................83
    - identities.......................................................85
    - factors, multiples...............................................86
    - prime numbers, composite numbers.................................86
    - The powers of exponents..........................................87
    - perfect squares that are sophisticated and substantial...........89
    - Radicals are a good riddance.....................................95
    - Please-Excuse-...the order of algebraic operations...............98
    - variables in terms of other variables............................99
    - equalities, inequalities.........................................103
    - Does symbolism give you an embolism?.............................107
    - reinforcement test Math II (answers and solutions)...............111(117)

EUCLIDEAN GEOMETRY
MATH III: Geometry (the first dimension)...............................125
    - angles, lines....................................................125
    - triangles........................................................126
    - the right triangle...............................................127
    - quadrilaterals...................................................130
    - polygons.........................................................133
    - face diagonals...................................................133
    - circles..........................................................135
    - Re-recount the quintessential keys...............................144
    - reinforcement test Math III (answers and solutions)..............145(152)
MATH IV: Geometry of Areas (the second dimension)......................163
MATH V: Cartesian coordinates..........................................173
    - reinforcement test Math IV, V (answers and solutions)............177(183)
MATH VI: Geometry of Volumes (the third dimension).....................192
    - space diagonal...................................................193
    - reinforcement test Math VI (answers and solutions)...............203(209)

WORD PROBLEMS
MATH VII: Variation, motion, work, assigned-values.....................216
    - direct and inverse variation.....................................216
    - Does motion make you throw up?...................................221
    - work.............................................................225
    - assigned-value and two-tiered problems...........................229

GORDIAN COUNTING, COMBINATIONS
MATH VIII: Combinations, probability and exhaustion....................233
    - the fundamental principle of counting............................233
    - finite probability, odds, independent trials, more guessing......240
    - reinforcement test Math VII & VIII (answers & solutions).........242(248)
MATH IX: Venn diagrams.................................................255
MATH  X: Data Interpretation...........................................264

CRITICAL READING
Reading explicitly, implicitly with your #2 pencil.....................286
    - choosing the correct answer......................................303
    - "hard" vs. "soft" science........................................335
    - narrative (fiction/nonfiction)...................................342
    - rhetorical devices...............................................343

WRITING
STANDARD WRITTEN ENGLISH (SWE)
    - question types/directions/how to approach the questions..........354
    - diction, a haven for homophones/clichés are worn to a frazzle....355
    - mixed metaphors, "Apology does not mend the offense."............357
    - substandard usage (sic) ain't no way to communicate..............358
    - Idiom is habit-forming/verbosity by Calvin Coolidge..............359
    - grammar, the rules most commonly violated........................362
      - subject-verb agreement.........................................362
      - pronouns and their antecedents.................................367
      - tense and verb forms...........................................373
      - God bless the subjunctive!.....................................375
      - fragments......................................................379
      - parallelism....................................................379
      - modifiers......................................................387
      - She looks as a horse, and other comparisons....................390
    - logical connections..............................................393
    - writing reinforcement test.......................................394
    - ten-interrogative checklist......................................399

HOW TO WRITE AN EXTEMPORANEOUS ESSAY...................................400

GLOSSARY...............................................................425

PERORATION IN THE LOCKER ROOM BEFORE THE TEST..........................443