OGET Oklahoma General Education Test (174)
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10 sample questions for the OGET Oklahoma General Education Test (174), with the correct answer and an explanation for each. No account needed. Try each one before you open the answer.
Sections covered on the exam: Mathematics.
Question 1 · Mathematics
The Pony Express occupies a place in American memory far larger than the one it held in American commerce. For roughly eighteen months, relays of riders carried mail between Missouri and California in about ten days, an impressive feat for the era. Yet the service never turned a profit, carried only a small volume of letters at a steep price per half-ounce, and was made obsolete almost overnight when the transcontinental telegraph line was completed. Its legend grew afterward, fed by dime novels and traveling shows that turned teenage riders into frontier heroes. None of this means the riders lacked courage; many crossed deserts and mountain passes alone in all weather. It means only that the story we tell about the Pony Express says more about the nation's appetite for adventure than about how information actually moved across the continent.
Answer: C. The fame of the Pony Express reflects popular storytelling more than its real importance to communication.
The writer grants the riders' courage but argues that the service was brief, unprofitable and quickly replaced, so its legend says more about the public's taste for adventure than about real communication. The riders' youth is mentioned only as part of the legend, and the passage never compares the courage of telegraph builders with that of riders.
Question 2 · Mathematics
The Riverside School District's Teaching Fellows program recruits career changers to fill shortages in high-need subjects. Every fellow must hold a bachelor's degree with at least 24 credit hours in the subject he or she will teach. Fellows who did not major in education must complete a six-week summer institute before entering a classroom. Only fellows who finish the institute by August 1 may begin teaching in the fall semester; others begin in January. All fellows, regardless of start date, are assigned a mentor for their first full year. Marcus, who majored in chemistry and earned 30 credit hours in the subject, has been accepted as a fellow but will not finish the summer institute until mid-August.
Answer: D. He will begin teaching in January and will be assigned a mentor.
Marcus did not major in education, so he must complete the institute; because he finishes after August 1, he cannot start in the fall and therefore starts in January. All fellows receive a mentor regardless of start date. Extra credit hours do not override the institute deadline or exempt him from the institute.
Question 3 · Mathematics
(1) Lake Superior is the largest of the five Great Lakes by both surface area and volume.
(2) Its shoreline is shared by Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, and the Canadian province of Ontario.
(3) The lake holds about 10 percent of the world's fresh surface water.
(4) Its average depth is greater than that of Lake Erie by more than 400 feet.
(5) Lake Superior is colder and deeper than any lake in the Great Lakes system.
(6) Because the water stays so cold, shipwrecks on its floor are often remarkably well preserved.
(7) More than 350 ships are believed to have sunk in its waters.
(8) Today, divers and researchers visit many of these wrecks to study the region's maritime history.
Answer: A. Part 5
Lake Superior is itself a lake in the Great Lakes system, so saying it is deeper than "any lake" in that system means it is deeper than itself. The sentence needs "any other lake." Part 4 is logical because "that of Lake Erie" correctly compares depth with depth, and Part 1 correctly uses "largest of the five."
Question 4 · Mathematics
Answer: B. 3 3/4 cups
Set up the proportion 2 1/4 ÷ 6 = x ÷ 10, so x = 2.25 × 10 ÷ 6 = 3.75, and the flour needed = 3 3/4 cups. Multiplying by 6/10 instead of 10/6 gives 1 7/20 cups, which is less flour for more servings. Adding 4 cups because there are 4 more servings gives 6 1/4 cups, which treats a multiplicative relationship as additive.
Question 5 · Mathematics
On a summer afternoon, a paved parking lot can be 30 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than a shaded lawn only a block away. Researchers call this pattern the urban heat island effect. Dark roofs and asphalt absorb sunlight during the day and release it slowly at night, so many city neighborhoods never fully cool off. The effect is not spread evenly. Neighborhoods with few trees and large amounts of pavement often run several degrees warmer than leafy districts in the same city, and residents there tend to face higher cooling bills and more heat-related illness. Some cities have responded by painting roofs with reflective coatings, replacing parking lots with green space, and planting street trees in the hottest blocks first. Early measurements suggest that a mature tree canopy can lower nearby surface temperatures noticeably, although trees take years to grow and need regular watering to survive.
Answer: B. Urban heat builds up unevenly across neighborhoods, and cities are trying targeted ways to reduce it.
The passage defines the heat island effect, stresses that it is uneven across neighborhoods, and then describes city responses, so the central idea combines both points. The claim about parking lots overstates one supporting detail, and the passage actually notes that trees take years to grow, so they are not presented as the fastest fix.
Question 6 · Mathematics
Along many of the world's great river deltas, the ground is slowly dropping. Deltas are built from mud and sand that rivers carry down from the mountains and spread across their mouths during floods. For thousands of years that steady supply of sediment balanced the natural settling of the soft land. Today the balance has tipped. Dams hundreds of miles upstream trap much of the sediment before it reaches the coast, and levees that protect delta towns keep floodwater, and the mud it carries, off the land. Meanwhile, cities and farms on the deltas pump large amounts of groundwater, which causes the soil beneath them to compact. In some deltas the land is sinking several times faster than the sea is rising. Engineers can build higher walls along the shore, but walls do nothing about a shortage of mud. The future of a delta, it turns out, is decided as much in reservoirs and well fields far inland as it is on the coast.
Answer: C. Human choices made far inland, not only at the coast, are a major cause of the sinking of deltas.
The passage lists upstream dams, levees and groundwater pumping, then concludes that a delta's future is decided 'in reservoirs and well fields far inland' as much as on the coast. The sea-level option contradicts the statement that land sinks faster than the sea rises, and the sea-wall option ignores the point that walls do nothing about missing sediment.
Question 7 · Mathematics
A recent study reports that adults who drank one can of VitaCharge energy drink before a timed puzzle test solved problems 15 percent faster than adults who drank water. The study involved 60 volunteers and was conducted at a private research laboratory. Results were announced in a press release and later summarized on several health websites. The study was paid for by the company that manufactures VitaCharge, and the researchers note that participants were told which drink they had received. The press release quotes a nutrition expert who calls the findings 'encouraging news for busy professionals.'
Answer: A. The research was funded by the company that makes and sells the energy drink.
Funding from the product's maker creates a financial interest in a favorable result, which is a direct source of possible bias. A modest sample limits how far results generalize but does not suggest a lack of objectivity, and later website coverage says nothing about how the study was conducted.
Question 8 · Mathematics
(1) The volunteer fire department held its annual pancake breakfast on Saturday. (2) More than four hundred people attended, and the event raised enough to replace two sets of protective gear. (3) When Chief Morales spoke with the mayor after the breakfast, he said that he would ask the council for funding to repair the station roof. (4) Volunteers spent the afternoon cleaning the hall.
Answer: B. After the breakfast, Chief Morales told the mayor, "I will ask the council for money to fix the station roof."
Quoting the chief directly with 'I' makes it unmistakable who will ask the council. In the other versions 'he' could still mean either man, or the pronoun 'they' adds a new ambiguity.
Question 9 · Mathematics
A carpenter has a board that is 10 feet long. She cuts as many pieces as possible that are each 1 3/4 feet long, and the width of each saw cut can be ignored.
Answer: C. 1 1/4 feet
Dividing gives 10 ÷ 1 3/4 = 10 ÷ 7/4 = 40/7, or 5 full pieces with some left over. Five pieces use 5 × 1 3/4 = 8 3/4 feet, so the leftover is 10 − 8 3/4 = 1 1/4 feet. A leftover of 1 3/4 feet would be enough for a sixth piece, so it cannot be correct.
Question 10 · Mathematics
Coral reefs cover a tiny fraction of the ocean floor, yet they shelter roughly a quarter of all known marine species. In recent decades, warming water has triggered repeated bleaching events, in which stressed corals expel the algae that feed them and turn white. Corals can recover if temperatures fall quickly, but repeated heat waves leave little time to heal. In response, marine scientists have started coral nurseries: fragments of healthy coral are grown on underwater frames and later attached to damaged reefs. Some teams are also breeding corals that survived past heat waves, hoping their offspring will tolerate warmer water. The scientists themselves caution that restoration works only at a small scale. Nurseries can rebuild patches of reef, they note, but long-term survival depends on slowing the warming of the oceans.
Answer: C. Restoration can rebuild reef patches, but long-term reef survival depends on slowing ocean warming.
The passage explains the threat of bleaching, describes restoration efforts, and ends with the scientists' point that these efforts are limited without slowing warming. The statements about the share of species and the definition of bleaching are supporting details, and the passage never ranks breeding as the most effective method.
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