Some students may be familiar with the related word vagrant and know that it refers to a person, often suffering poverty, who travels from place to place in search of a living. Students who know the word might envision a medieval wanderer or Great Depression-era job-seeker. The first word of the given couplet, vagabond, is fairly uncommon in 21st-century American English. This question hinges mostly on knowledge of some very advanced words and the nuances of how they are used. If you chose Answer A, you are in an elite group! Only 9.1% of students selected this correct answer – far below the expected value of 20% for a question on which all students randomly guessed an answer. The Test Innovators platform gathers and provides data on how many students answer each question correctly, and we were curious to see which SSAT Upper Level verbal question stumped the greatest percentage of students.įirst, check out this question – can you answer it correctly? To perform well on the analogies section, students not only must be adept at finding relationships between concepts, but also must have a solid mastery of above-grade-level vocabulary. The SSAT’s analogies are one of the very hardest parts of the test, especially for first-time test takers.
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