Each student's personal study schedule was tailored to accommodate their unique sleep patterns and extracurricular commitments.
每位学生的个人学习计划都根据其独特的睡眠模式和课外活动安排进行了调整。
The opening paragraph of the short story lingers on a detailed description of a cluttered, dusty attic, a setting that reappears, unchanged, in the story's final paragraph after the protagonist has undergone a significant personal transformation.
From a Text Structure and Purpose question · Craft and Structure
Contrary to the popular image of medieval Europe as uniformly illiterate, recent research into surviving merchant ledgers and personal letters suggests that basic literacy was more widespread among urban tradespeople than previously believed, even if formal, Latin-based scholarly literacy remained rare.
From a Central Ideas and Details question · Information and Ideas
In his address, the university president begins with a personal story about struggling academically as a first-generation college student, using that story to introduce the announcement of a new scholarship fund for students in similar circumstances.
From a Text Structure and Purpose question · Craft and Structure
Which choice best defines “personal”?
C — Relating to a particular person. “personal” means relating to a particular person.
Which word means “relating to a particular person”?
A — personal. “personal” means relating to a particular person.
personal — relating to a particular person. In Chinese: 个人的，私人的.
personal is pronounced /ˈpɜːrsənl/.
Each student's personal study schedule was tailored to accommodate their unique sleep patterns and extracurricular commitments. (每位学生的个人学习计划都根据其独特的睡眠模式和课外活动安排进行了调整。)
individual, private, intimate — all close in meaning to personal (relating to a particular person).
public, collective — each the opposite of personal (relating to a particular person).
Yes. personal is on the SAT Prep Basic list — the everyday academic words the SAT assumes you already have. The Digital SAT does not test vocabulary in isolation; words like this one are tested through Words in Context questions, where you choose the word that completes a passage most logically and precisely.