In our last post, we went over some examples of the kinds of pattern questions that pop up on the SAT. But pattern questions come in all shapes and sizes, and in this post we’re going to look at a couple of more tricky ones.

The first type that we’re going to look at is a question that asks about nth terms of the sequence, where n is extremely high (these are also known as annoying sequences). Remember that if the SAT asks you about the 75th or the 103rd term of a sequence, there is no way they expect you to calculate all of the terms up to this term. There will always be some kind of shortcut.