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THIS IS A HALL OF FAME BSAT QUESTION OF THE DAY FROM SEPT 29, 2009

Yesterday (Sept 28, 2009), the College Board sent out this Question of the Day. Even we admit it's got possibilities. But then the idiots blew it -- the answers they offered were all boring and sucked. We offer BSAT alternative answers with today's Sentence Completion.

The Official College Board Question of the Day for Sept 28, 2009: "A dictatorship _______ its citizens to be docile and finds it expedient to make outcasts of those who do not _______."

The Official College Board Question of the Day for Sept 28, 2009: "A dictatorship _______ its citizens to be docile and finds it expedient to make outcasts of those who do not _______."

A BSAT HALL OF FAME QUESTION FROM AUGUST 21, 2009

The following sentence may be screwed up in some way. Or it may not. Pick the best alternative to the underlined portion. 

These days being a professional monarch is no fun, now that crippling tax levies are out, crusades are unpopular and to boil the peasantry in oil is a nonstarter.

A photobomb is usually either a person or a thing that doesn't belong in the picture, but every once in a while it's ______.

In countries like China, they lust after freedoms that we take for granted. To paraphrase Mel Gibson in “Braveheart,” you may take our lives, but you’ll never take our porno!!!

The Chinese government announced that some 3,470 people have been _______ and thousands of pornographic websites have been closed as part of a _______.

Here at the BSAT HQ we recently received an exciting email from a MR. HILLARY CLINTON, addressed to DEARLY BELOVED. The reason we're excited is that the opening sentence, quoted below, sets up a great real-life math problem. Here it is:

"I wish to use this medium and my new office to inform you that your CONTRACT/INHERITANCE Payment of USD$10m (TEN Million Dollars) from CITI BANK OF NIGERIA has been RELEASED and APPROVED for onward transfer to you via an ATM CARD which you will use to withdraw all the USD$10m in any ATM SERVICE MACHINE in any part of the world, but the maximum you can withdraw in a day is USD$10,000 Only"

Assuming the ATM dispenses the money in $20 bills, by the time the CONTRACT/INHERITANCE money is 20% withdrawn, how many $20 bills will DEARLY BELOVED have?

The College Board is way too busy quaking in their tiny little booties to talk about controversial issues. Here at the BSAT, we use anything to grab the attention of the willing young learner. Today's Sentence Completion:

Rights groups are elated at the president's pledge to replace the military's often reviled "don't ask don't tell" policy with a sensible and direct approach that might be called "_______"

In today's hypercompetitive wired environment, old established institutions are suddenly struggling to connect with their audience. Today's Nazi-themed Sentence Completion:

The U.S. National Socialist party, following a worldwide trend, have launched a 'rebranding' campaign with the slogan "We're not your father's Nazis!"

Yesterday, the College Board sent out this Question of the Day. Even we admit it's got possibilities. But then the idiots blew it -- the answers they offered were all boring and sucked. We offer BSAT alternative answers with today's Sentence Completion.

The Official College Board Question of the Day for Sept 28, 2009: "A dictatorship _______ its citizens to be docile and finds it expedient to make outcasts of those who do not _______."

Unlike the SAT, a BSAT Sentence Improvement question is often related to crucial current events:

Yesterday President Obama attempted to indoctrinate 40 million school kids through the means of his Neuralizing Socialist Mind Ray, but luckily they detected the powerful beam just in time and made him stop.

The following sentence may be screwed up in some way. Or it may not. Pick the best alternative to the underlined portion.

These days being a professional monarch is no fun, now that crippling tax levies are out, crusades are unpopular and to boil the peasantry in oil is a nonstarter.

Because they're idiots, the College Board cut Analogies out of the SAT in 2005. But Analogies are the most fun you can have with a #2 pencil! Lots more available in The BSAT Official Study Guide.

Here's how analogy problems work: you are given a pair of words, phrases or whatevers that are somehow related. Select the choice that makes the second pair related in the same way as the first.

possession : exorcist    ::    sewer backup : ______

You may not be familiar with analogy problems, since the College Board cut them out of the SAT in 2005. Why, you may wonder? Because they're idiots. Analogies are the most fun you can have with a #2 pencil! Lots more available in The BSAT Official Study Guide.

Here's how analogy problems work: you are given a pair of words, phrases or whatevers that are somehow related. From the choices offered, select the second pair that are related in the same way as the first pair.

cash : clunker    ::    ______ : ______

The following sentence contains a blank. Pick the word that seems the least inappropriate to fill it in.

Since it had become politically _____________ to close the prison, the agency was inspired to turn it into Guantanamo Playland, with the jihadist inmates staying on as cast members with full union benefits.