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54 questions in 64 minutes, as two 32-minute modules. Every question comes with its own passage of 25 to 150 words, or a pair of them.
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A café owner believes that customers stay longer when slow music is played. For a month she plays slow music on weekdays and fast music on weekends, and notes how long each table is occupied. Which finding would most weaken her belief?Answer: Tables were occupied for the same time on both kinds of day. Source: College Board, SAT Suite content domains: Information and Ideas, Command of Evidence (textual). The answer rests on the text printed in the question.
A library counted its visits in four months: 1,200 in January, 1,450 in February, 1,900 in March and 1,750 in April. The librarian writes that visits rose at first and then dipped, and she wants to add the figures that show the dip. Which choice uses the count to show the dip?Answer: Visits fell from 1,900 in March to 1,750 in April. Source: College Board, SAT Suite content domains: Information and Ideas, Command of Evidence (quantitative). The answer rests on the text printed in the question.
A printer's records show that pamphlets ordered by the town council were always set in large type, while those ordered by the merchants' guild used type half that size on the same paper. The guild's pamphlets carried long lists of prices. The difference in type most likely arose because ______. Which choice most logically completes the text?Answer: the guild had more to fit on each sheet. Source: College Board, SAT Suite content domains: Information and Ideas, Inferences. The answer rests on the text printed in the question.
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Information and Ideas, continued
The bakery on Hale Street sells out of rye bread by nine each morning, yet its owner bakes the same forty loaves every day. Asked why, she says her oven holds forty loaves and a second oven would not fit in the shop. The steady number of loaves, then, reflects ______. Which choice most logically completes the text?Answer: a limit of space, not a lack of demand. Source: College Board, SAT Suite content domains: Information and Ideas, Inferences. The answer rests on the text printed in the question.
Ecology students at a school think that the frogs in the campus pond call less on nights when the nearby stadium lights are on. They record the pond on twenty nights, ten with the lights on and ten with them off. Which finding would best support the students' idea?Answer: Far fewer calls were recorded on the ten lit nights. Source: College Board, SAT Suite content domains: Information and Ideas, Command of Evidence (textual). The answer rests on the text printed in the question.
For a school project, Dalia grew bean plants in two windows. The plants in the south window got direct sun for most of the day; those in the north window got almost none. After three weeks, the south-window plants were shorter but had thicker stems and darker leaves, while the north-window plants were tall, pale and thin. What does the text say about the north-window plants?Answer: They grew taller than the plants that got direct sun. Source: College Board, SAT Suite content domains: Information and Ideas, Central Ideas and Details. The answer rests on the text printed in the question.
In a short story written for a class magazine, the narrator describes her younger brother, Wen. A student claims that the narrator admires Wen's stubbornness even though it annoys her. Which quotation from the story best supports the claim?Answer: "He would not quit, and I hated how much I respected that.". Source: College Board, SAT Suite content domains: Information and Ideas, Command of Evidence (textual). The answer rests on the text printed in the question.
In a taste test at a school fair, 40 students tried two lemonades. Recipe A was preferred by 26 students and Recipe B by 10, and 4 had no preference. A student reporter wants to say how strongly Recipe A was favored. Which choice states the result accurately?Answer: More than half of the 40 students preferred Recipe A. Source: College Board, SAT Suite content domains: Information and Ideas, Command of Evidence (quantitative). The answer rests on the text printed in the question.
In her diary for 1911, a schoolteacher in a mining town recorded the weather each day in a single word: "fair," "wet," "bitter." Only once did she write more. On the day the mine reopened after a long strike, the entry runs to a full page, and the weather is not mentioned at all. What sets the reopening-day entry apart from the others?Answer: It is far longer and leaves out the weather. Source: College Board, SAT Suite content domains: Information and Ideas, Central Ideas and Details. The answer rests on the text printed in the question.
Members of a hiking club vote each spring on the summer's routes. For years the oldest members chose steep trails and the newest chose flat ones. This spring, after the club began pairing each new member with an experienced one for training walks, the newest members voted for steep trails too. This suggests that the training walks ______. Which choice most logically completes the text?Answer: made new members readier to try hard routes. Source: College Board, SAT Suite content domains: Information and Ideas, Inferences. The answer rests on the text printed in the question.
The potter Ilse Brandt signs none of her bowls. She says a signature tells the buyer to look at the name rather than the bowl. Collectors disagree: an unsigned piece is harder to resell, and several have asked her to mark the base. She has refused each time, and her prices have risen anyway. Which choice best states the main idea of the text?Answer: Brandt keeps her bowls unsigned despite pressure from collectors. Source: College Board, SAT Suite content domains: Information and Ideas, Central Ideas and Details. The answer rests on the text printed in the question.
Tomas had rowed the same stretch of river every morning for thirty years. He knew which bend hid the sandbar and which bank the herons favored. Yet when his granddaughter asked him to draw a map of it, he held the pencil over the paper for a long time and drew nothing. Which choice best states the main idea of the text?Answer: Tomas knows the river by heart but struggles to draw it. Source: College Board, SAT Suite content domains: Information and Ideas, Central Ideas and Details. The answer rests on the text printed in the question.
Two neighboring farms planted the same wheat in the same week. One farmer watered on a fixed schedule; the other checked the soil each morning and watered only when it was dry. In a wet year their harvests matched. In a dry year the second farm's harvest was far larger. The comparison implies that checking the soil matters most when ______. Which choice most logically completes the text?Answer: rain is scarce. Source: College Board, SAT Suite content domains: Information and Ideas, Inferences. The answer rests on the text printed in the question.
When the town of Alder Creek moved its weekly market from the square to a parking lot at the edge of town, vendors gained room for larger stalls. Sales, however, fell. Shoppers who once stopped by on foot during errands now had to plan a separate trip, and many simply did not. Why did sales fall after the move, according to the text?Answer: The new site was harder to reach in the course of a day. Source: College Board, SAT Suite content domains: Information and Ideas, Central Ideas and Details. The answer rests on the text printed in the question.
Craft and Structure 15
A popular belief holds that the old mill closed because its owner retired. The mill's ledgers tell a different story. Orders had fallen every year for a decade, and in its final winter the mill ran only two days a week. Retirement, it seems, was the occasion for closing and not the cause. Which choice best describes how the text is organized?Answer: It states a common belief, then corrects it with evidence. Source: College Board, SAT Suite content domains: Craft and Structure, Text Structure and Purpose. The answer rests on the text printed in the question.
Before each concert, the piano tuner spends two hours on a job that others finish in forty minutes. She tests every string three times and writes down each adjustment. Her ______ approach is the reason the hall keeps hiring her. Which word best completes the text?Answer: meticulous. Source: College Board, SAT Suite content domains: Craft and Structure, Words in Context. Meaning: Wiktionary, "meticulous."
Critics praised the novel's opening chapter, set in a crowded train station, for its noise and motion. Fewer noticed the last chapter, in which the same station stands empty at dawn. The echo is deliberate: the book begins and ends in one place so that the reader can measure how much its heroine has changed. Why does the text mention the last chapter?Answer: To point out a pairing that gives the book its shape. Source: College Board, SAT Suite content domains: Craft and Structure, Text Structure and Purpose. The answer rests on the text printed in the question.
Every October the lake's rental boats are hauled out, scrubbed and stacked in a shed. The work takes four people two days. It is dull, cold and unpaid, and each year the same four neighbors turn up to do it without being asked. Why does the text call the work dull, cold and unpaid?Answer: To stress that the neighbors gain nothing by doing it. Source: College Board, SAT Suite content domains: Craft and Structure, Text Structure and Purpose. The answer rests on the text printed in the question.
The first reviews praised the film's mountain scenery and said nothing of its plot. The director, who had spent three years on the script, complained that the critics had ______ the story entirely. Which word best completes the text?Answer: overlooked. Source: College Board, SAT Suite content domains: Craft and Structure, Words in Context. Meaning: Wiktionary, "overlook."
The first survey of commuters was too small to convince the council. The planners therefore ran a second, much larger survey, hoping that its results would ______ their case for a new bus line. Which word best completes the text?Answer: bolster. Source: College Board, SAT Suite content domains: Craft and Structure, Words in Context. Meaning: Wiktionary, "bolster."
For ten years after the cannery closed, the warehouses along the quay stood ______. Then a boatbuilder leased one and a sailmaker took the next, and soon every door on the waterfront was open again. Which word best completes the text?Answer: vacant. Source: College Board, SAT Suite content domains: Craft and Structure, Words in Context. Meaning: Wiktionary, "vacant."
Mirela set the table for five, though only four would eat. She did it every Sunday: the extra plate, the extra glass, the chair pulled slightly out. No one in the family remarked on it anymore. Her son, visiting from abroad, sat down in the empty place by mistake and felt the whole table go still. What is the main purpose of the text?Answer: To show a family custom through one awkward moment. Source: College Board, SAT Suite content domains: Craft and Structure, Text Structure and Purpose. The answer rests on the text printed in the question.
The old ferry still runs, but its timetable is a relic. Printed decades ago, it lists stops that no longer exist. Regular riders ignore it and simply ask the pilot. What does "relic" most nearly mean in the text?Answer: something left over from an earlier time. Source: College Board, SAT Suite content domains: Craft and Structure, Words in Context. Meaning: Wiktionary, "relic."
The sign at the trailhead read only "Bridge closed ahead" and did not say which of the two bridges was meant. Hikers found the warning ______, and half of them turned back from the wrong fork. Which word best completes the text?Answer: ambiguous. Source: College Board, SAT Suite content domains: Craft and Structure, Words in Context. Meaning: Wiktionary, "ambiguous."
Text 1: A historian argues that a village's old stone walls were built to pen sheep, since they enclose the best grazing land. Text 2: Another historian notes that the walls are barely knee high and that the village's own records list fines for moving "the boundary stones." Sheep, she observes, step over such walls with ease. What do the two historians disagree about?Answer: What the walls were built to do. Source: College Board, SAT Suite content domains: Craft and Structure, Cross-Text Connections. The answer rests on the text printed in the question.
Text 1: After watching one orchard for ten years, a grower concludes that bees visit apple trees mainly in the morning. Text 2: A second grower, who watched an orchard on a foggy coast, saw most bee visits in the afternoon, after the fog had lifted. She suspects that weather, not the hour, decides when bees fly. What would the second grower most likely say of Text 1?Answer: Its finding may hold only where mornings are clear. Source: College Board, SAT Suite content domains: Craft and Structure, Cross-Text Connections. The answer rests on the text printed in the question.
Text 1: Street murals waste public money. Paint fades within a few years, and the walls would serve the city better if left plain and clean. Text 2: A mural's short life is part of its value. Each repainting gives a new group of residents a reason to gather, argue and choose what their street should say. How would the writer of Text 2 most likely answer Text 1?Answer: Fading is no flaw, since repainting brings residents together. Source: College Board, SAT Suite content domains: Craft and Structure, Cross-Text Connections. The answer rests on the text printed in the question.
The town's first telephone line reached only six houses. Its owners could call no one but each other, and for a year the line was mostly a novelty. Then the doctor was connected. Within months, forty households had asked to join. What does the third sentence do in the text?Answer: It marks the turning point in the line's use. Source: College Board, SAT Suite content domains: Craft and Structure, Text Structure and Purpose. The answer rests on the text printed in the question.
The two river towns had been rivals for a century, so their mayors' joint plan for a shared library was ______. Nothing like it had been tried in the valley before, and neither council knew quite how to vote on it. Which word best completes the text?Answer: unprecedented. Source: College Board, SAT Suite content domains: Craft and Structure, Words in Context. Meaning: Wiktionary, "unprecedented."
Expression of Ideas 11
A student has these notes on a river cleanup. Volunteers met on four Saturdays. They removed 300 bags of litter. Most of it was plastic bottles. The city has since added bins along the bank. The student wants to present what the cleanup led to. Which choice best does this, using the notes?Answer: After the cleanup, the city added bins along the bank. Source: College Board, SAT Suite content domains: Expression of Ideas, Rhetorical Synthesis. The answer rests on the text printed in the question.
A student has these notes on a school garden. Students planted it in April. It has six raised beds. In its first season it produced 90 kilograms of vegetables. The harvest went to the school kitchen. The student wants to stress how much the garden produced. Which choice best does this, using the notes?Answer: In its first season the garden yielded 90 kilograms of vegetables. Source: College Board, SAT Suite content domains: Expression of Ideas, Rhetorical Synthesis. The answer rests on the text printed in the question.
A student has these notes on a town clock. It was installed in the square in 1902. It struck every hour until 1968. That year, neighbors complained of the noise at night. The council silenced the bell but kept the hands running. The student wants to say why the bell stopped. Which choice best does this, using the notes?Answer: The bell was silenced in 1968 after neighbors complained of night noise. Source: College Board, SAT Suite content domains: Expression of Ideas, Rhetorical Synthesis. The answer rests on the text printed in the question.
A student has these notes on Odile Marchand, a painter in a novel. She paints only at night. She uses house paint, not artists' oils. Her canvases are old bedsheets. A gallery buys her work in the final chapter. The student wants to describe her unusual materials. Which choice best does this, using the notes?Answer: Marchand paints with house paint on old bedsheets. Source: College Board, SAT Suite content domains: Expression of Ideas, Rhetorical Synthesis. The answer rests on the text printed in the question.
A student has these notes on two bridges in one city. The Mill Bridge is stone and opened in 1850. The Quay Bridge is steel and opened in 1931. The Mill Bridge carries walkers only. The Quay Bridge carries cars and trams. The student wants to contrast how the bridges are used. Which choice best does this, using the notes?Answer: The Mill Bridge carries only walkers, while the Quay Bridge carries cars and trams. Source: College Board, SAT Suite content domains: Expression of Ideas, Rhetorical Synthesis. The answer rests on the text printed in the question.
The crew first stripped the paint from the hull and sanded the planks smooth. ______, they sealed each seam with tar before the new paint went on. Which transition best completes the text?Answer: Next. Source: College Board, SAT Suite content domains: Expression of Ideas, Transitions. Purdue Online Writing Lab, Transitional Devices: to show sequence ("next").
Few people expected the tiny bookshop to survive the opening of a chain store across the street. ______, its sales rose that year, as shoppers drawn to the street discovered it. Which transition best completes the text?Answer: In fact. Source: College Board, SAT Suite content domains: Expression of Ideas, Transitions. Purdue Online Writing Lab, Transitional Devices: to emphasize ("in fact").
The museum lets visitors handle some of its objects. ______, a tray of clay oil lamps, all modern copies, sits on a table by the door. Which transition best completes the text?Answer: For example. Source: College Board, SAT Suite content domains: Expression of Ideas, Transitions. Purdue Online Writing Lab, Transitional Devices: to give an example ("for example").
The new bus route was meant to shorten the trip downtown. ______, riders report that the journey now takes ten minutes longer, because the bus stops twice as often. Which transition best completes the text?Answer: However. Source: College Board, SAT Suite content domains: Expression of Ideas, Transitions. Purdue Online Writing Lab, Transitional Devices: to compare and to show exception ("however").
The old hall on Bell Street is too small for the choir's concerts. ______, its heating fails most winters, so even a small audience sits in coats. Which transition best completes the text?Answer: In addition. Source: College Board, SAT Suite content domains: Expression of Ideas, Transitions. Purdue Online Writing Lab, Transitional Devices: to add ("in addition").
The printing press broke down on the eve of the election. ______, the town's only newspaper appeared two days late, after the votes had been counted. Which transition best completes the text?Answer: As a result. Source: College Board, SAT Suite content domains: Expression of Ideas, Transitions. Purdue Online Writing Lab, Transitional Devices: to summarize or conclude ("as a result").
Standard English Conventions 14
Because the bridge was closed for ______ took the ferry all summer. Many of them said afterward that they missed the slow ride across the water. Which choice follows the rules of standard English?Answer: repairs, commuters. Source: College Board, SAT Suite content domains: Standard English Conventions, Boundaries. Rule: Purdue Online Writing Lab, Brief Overview of Punctuation, comma after an introductory dependent clause.
The crate of oranges on the top ______ during the storm. By morning the whole cellar smelled of citrus, and the floor was sticky with juice. Which choice follows the rules of standard English?Answer: shelf fell. Source: College Board, SAT Suite content domains: Standard English Conventions, Boundaries. Rule: Purdue Online Writing Lab, Extended Rules for Using Commas, no comma between the subject and the verb.
For forty years a logbook lay on the desk beneath the lamp room. The lighthouse keeper logged every ship that ______ entry, dated in March, records a fishing boat running for shelter. Which choice follows the rules of standard English?Answer: passed. The last. Source: College Board, SAT Suite content domains: Standard English Conventions, Boundaries. Rule: Purdue Online Writing Lab, Identifying Independent and Dependent Clauses, comma splices and fused sentences.
The last bus had left without her, and the next one was not due for an hour. Imani pulled up her hood. Walking home in the rain, ______. Which choice follows the rules of standard English?Answer: Imani felt her shoes soak through. Source: College Board, SAT Suite content domains: Standard English Conventions, Form, Structure, and Sense. Rule: Purdue Online Writing Lab, Dangling Modifiers and How To Correct Them, the doer must be the subject of the main clause.
Last spring the river rose overnight, flooded the lower fields and ______ the footbridge away. The town rebuilt the bridge in August, a full meter higher than before. Which choice follows the rules of standard English?Answer: swept. Source: College Board, SAT Suite content domains: Standard English Conventions, Form, Structure, and Sense. Rule: Purdue Online Writing Lab, Verb Tense Consistency, do not shift tense when the time frame is the same.
Lena ______ won the regional chess title at fifteen. She had learned the game at her mother's workbench, between the sawhorses and the curls of pine. Which choice follows the rules of standard English?Answer: Varga, a carpenter's daughter,. Source: College Board, SAT Suite content domains: Standard English Conventions, Boundaries. Rule: Purdue Online Writing Lab, Extended Rules for Using Commas, commas in pairs around nonessential elements.
The list of repairs that the inspectors ordered ______ three pages. The owners expect the work to last most of the winter, and they have closed the upper floor until spring. Which choice follows the rules of standard English?Answer: fills. Source: College Board, SAT Suite content domains: Standard English Conventions, Form, Structure, and Sense. Rule: Purdue Online Writing Lab, Making Subjects and Verbs Agree, a phrase between the subject and the verb.
Most of the clocks on display run on electric motors hidden in their cases. The museum is proud of its oldest clock, and ______ still wound by hand every morning. Which choice follows the rules of standard English?Answer: it's. Source: College Board, SAT Suite content domains: Standard English Conventions, Form, Structure, and Sense. Rule: Purdue Online Writing Lab, The Apostrophe, its and it's.
The quilt that Grandmother ______ in 1960 still hangs in the front room. Its colors have faded, but every seam has held for more than sixty years. Which choice follows the rules of standard English?Answer: stitched. Source: College Board, SAT Suite content domains: Standard English Conventions, Form, Structure, and Sense. Rule: Purdue Online Writing Lab, Sentence Fragments, a clause needs a subject and a main verb.
The soup was first made in a kitchen with an herb garden outside its door. The recipe calls for fresh ______ dried thyme works nearly as well. Which choice follows the rules of standard English?Answer: thyme; however,. Source: College Board, SAT Suite content domains: Standard English Conventions, Boundaries. Rule: Purdue Online Writing Lab, Identifying Independent and Dependent Clauses, independent marker words.
The trail guide warns of three ______ a steep ridge, a river crossing and a field of loose rock. Hikers who set out before dawn usually pass all three by noon. Which choice follows the rules of standard English?Answer: hazards:. Source: College Board, SAT Suite content domains: Standard English Conventions, Boundaries. Rule: Purdue Online Writing Lab, Brief Overview of Punctuation, colon after an independent clause before a list.
The two ______ nest sat high in the barn, where neither cat could reach it. Each evening the birds swooped in through a gap above the door. Which choice follows the rules of standard English?Answer: swallows'. Source: College Board, SAT Suite content domains: Standard English Conventions, Form, Structure, and Sense. Rule: Purdue Online Writing Lab, The Apostrophe, possessives of plural nouns that end in -s.
The two foxes dug ______ den under the roots of a fallen pine. By spring, four cubs were tumbling out of it each evening at dusk. Which choice follows the rules of standard English?Answer: their. Source: College Board, SAT Suite content domains: Standard English Conventions, Form, Structure, and Sense. Rule: Purdue Online Writing Lab, Using Pronouns Clearly, agree in number.
The valley floods most ______ farmers there build their barns on mounds of packed earth. From the ridge road the barns look like boats at anchor. Which choice follows the rules of standard English?Answer: springs; the. Source: College Board, SAT Suite content domains: Standard English Conventions, Boundaries. Rule: Purdue Online Writing Lab, Brief Overview of Punctuation, semicolon between two independent clauses.
Algebra 15
A café sold 90 drinks, some small at $3 each and the rest large at $5 each, for $366 in all. How many large drinks did it sell?Answer: 48. Source: College Board, SAT Math section, Types of Math Tested: Algebra, systems of two linear equations in two variables. The answer is worked out from the numbers in the question.
A gym charges a $40 joining fee and $25 a month. After how many months will a member have paid $315 in all?Answer: 11. Source: College Board, SAT Math section, Types of Math Tested: Algebra, linear equations in one variable. The answer is worked out from the numbers in the question.
A line in the xy-plane has a slope of −2 and passes through (3, 5). What is the y-coordinate of its y-intercept?Answer: 11. Source: College Board, SAT Math section, Types of Math Tested: Algebra, linear equations in two variables. The answer is worked out from the numbers in the question.
A tank holds 240 gallons and drains at 16 gallons per minute, so w(t) = 240 − 16t gives the gallons left after t minutes. For what value of t is the tank empty?Answer: 15. Source: College Board, SAT Math section, Types of Math Tested: Algebra, linear functions. The answer is worked out from the numbers in the question.
A truck loaded to its weight limit carries x small crates and y large crates, where 12x + 20y = 480. If it carries 18 large crates, how many small crates does it carry?Answer: 10. Source: College Board, SAT Math section, Types of Math Tested: Algebra, linear equations in two variables. The answer is worked out from the numbers in the question.
For the linear function f, f(−1) = 9, and f(x) falls by 4 each time x rises by 1. What is f(3)?Answer: −7. Source: College Board, SAT Math section, Types of Math Tested: Algebra, linear functions. The answer is worked out from the numbers in the question.
The function T(h) = 68 − 3.5h models the temperature, in degrees Fahrenheit, h thousand feet up a mountain. By the model, how far does the temperature fall between 2,000 feet and 6,000 feet?Answer: 14 degrees. Source: College Board, SAT Math section, Types of Math Tested: Algebra, linear functions. The answer is worked out from the numbers in the question.
How many solutions does the system 2x − 6y = 8 and −x + 3y = −4 have?Answer: Infinitely many. Source: College Board, SAT Math section, Types of Math Tested: Algebra, systems of two linear equations in two variables. The answer is worked out from the numbers in the question.
If (3/4)x − 5 = 13, what is the value of x?Answer: 24. Source: College Board, SAT Math section, Types of Math Tested: Algebra, linear equations in one variable. The answer is worked out from the numbers in the question.
If 3x + 2y = 4 and 5x − 2y = 28, what is the value of y?Answer: −4. Source: College Board, SAT Math section, Types of Math Tested: Algebra, systems of two linear equations in two variables. The answer is worked out from the numbers in the question.
If 7x + 3 = 4x − 18, what is the value of 3x?Answer: −21. Source: College Board, SAT Math section, Types of Math Tested: Algebra, linear equations in one variable. The answer is worked out from the numbers in the question.
In the xy-plane, which inequality has the point (3, −2) among its solutions?Answer: y < 2x − 7. Source: College Board, SAT Math section, Types of Math Tested: Algebra, linear inequalities in one or two variables. The answer is worked out from the numbers in the question.
Kai has $50 to spend on one $14 poster and some pens that cost $4.50 each. What is the greatest number of pens Kai can buy?Answer: 8. Source: College Board, SAT Math section, Types of Math Tested: Algebra, linear inequalities in one or two variables. The answer is worked out from the numbers in the question.
What is the solution to −3(x − 2) ≤ 18?Answer: x ≥ −4. Source: College Board, SAT Math section, Types of Math Tested: Algebra, linear inequalities in one or two variables. The answer is worked out from the numbers in the question.
Which equation gives a line parallel to the line y = −(3/4)x + 2?Answer: 3x + 4y = 20. Source: College Board, SAT Math section, Types of Math Tested: Algebra, linear equations in two variables. The answer is worked out from the numbers in the question.
Advanced Math 15
A savings account opens with $2,500 and earns 4% interest, added once a year. Which expression gives the balance, in dollars, after n years?Answer: 2,500(1.04)^n. Source: College Board, SAT Math section, Types of Math Tested: Advanced Math, nonlinear functions. The answer is worked out from the numbers in the question.
For x ≠ 0, which expression is equivalent to (6x² + 9x)/(3x)?Answer: 2x + 3. Source: College Board, SAT Math section, Types of Math Tested: Advanced Math, equivalent expressions. The answer is worked out from the numbers in the question.
For x > 0, which expression is equivalent to x^(3/2) · x^(1/2)?Answer: x². Source: College Board, SAT Math section, Types of Math Tested: Advanced Math, equivalent expressions. The answer is worked out from the numbers in the question.
The formula A = P(1 + rt) gives an amount A in terms of P, r and t. Which equation gives t in terms of the others?Answer: t = (A − P)/(Pr). Source: College Board, SAT Math section, Types of Math Tested: Advanced Math, nonlinear equations in one variable. The answer is worked out from the numbers in the question.
The function g is defined by g(x) = −2(x + 1)² + 18. What is the maximum value of g?Answer: 18. Source: College Board, SAT Math section, Types of Math Tested: Advanced Math, nonlinear functions. The answer is worked out from the numbers in the question.
The graphs of x² + y² = 25 and y = x + 1 meet at two points. Which of them has two positive coordinates?Answer: (3, 4). Source: College Board, SAT Math section, Types of Math Tested: Advanced Math, systems of equations in two variables. The answer is worked out from the numbers in the question.
If (ax + 3)(2x − 1) = 8x² + bx − 3 for every value of x, what is the value of b?Answer: 2. Source: College Board, SAT Math section, Types of Math Tested: Advanced Math, equivalent expressions. The answer is worked out from the numbers in the question.
If f(x) = 2x² − 3 and g(x) = x + 4, what is f(g(−1))?Answer: 15. Source: College Board, SAT Math section, Types of Math Tested: Advanced Math, nonlinear functions. The answer is worked out from the numbers in the question.
The mass of a sample, in grams, after x days is m(x) = 80(1/2)^(x/6). What is its mass after 18 days?Answer: 10 grams. Source: College Board, SAT Math section, Types of Math Tested: Advanced Math, nonlinear functions. The answer is worked out from the numbers in the question.
What are the solutions to x² − 6x + 2 = 0?Answer: 3 ± √7. Source: College Board, SAT Math section, Types of Math Tested: Advanced Math, nonlinear equations in one variable. The answer is worked out from the numbers in the question.
What are the zeros of the function f(x) = x² − 8x + 12?Answer: 2 and 6. Source: College Board, SAT Math section, Types of Math Tested: Advanced Math, nonlinear functions. The answer is worked out from the numbers in the question.
What is the sum of the solutions to x² − 9x + 14 = 0?Answer: 9. Source: College Board, SAT Math section, Types of Math Tested: Advanced Math, nonlinear equations in one variable. The answer is worked out from the numbers in the question.
What value of x satisfies √(x + 7) = x − 5?Answer: 9. Source: College Board, SAT Math section, Types of Math Tested: Advanced Math, nonlinear equations in one variable. The answer is worked out from the numbers in the question.
Which expression is equivalent to (x + 4)² − (x − 4)²?Answer: 16x. Source: College Board, SAT Math section, Types of Math Tested: Advanced Math, equivalent expressions. The answer is worked out from the numbers in the question.
Which expression is equivalent to 3x³ − 12x?Answer: 3x(x − 2)(x + 2). Source: College Board, SAT Math section, Types of Math Tested: Advanced Math, equivalent expressions. The answer is worked out from the numbers in the question.
Problem-Solving and Data Analysis 7
A flock of 650 birds shrinks by 12%. How many birds are left?Answer: 572. Source: College Board, SAT Math section, Types of Math Tested: Problem-Solving and Data Analysis, percentages. The answer is worked out from the numbers in the question.
A gym surveys a random sample of its own members and finds that most want longer opening hours. To which group can this result be extended?Answer: The members of that gym. Source: College Board, Assessment Framework for the Digital SAT Suite, Table A37: Problem-Solving and Data Analysis, evaluating statistical claims (a result can be extended only to the population from which the sample was selected).
A machine fills 48 bottles in 3 minutes. At that rate, how long does it take to fill 400 bottles?Answer: 25 minutes. Source: College Board, SAT Math section, Types of Math Tested: Problem-Solving and Data Analysis, ratios, rates, proportional relationships, and units. The answer is worked out from the numbers in the question.
A parking lot holds 24 cars: 9 white, 6 black, 5 silver and 4 red. One car is picked at random. What is the probability that it is neither white nor black?Answer: 3/8. Source: College Board, SAT Math section, Types of Math Tested: Problem-Solving and Data Analysis, probability and conditional probability. The answer is worked out from the numbers in the question.
A poll of a random sample of 250 students at a school finds that 40% walk to school. A second poll will ask a random sample of 1,000 students at the same school. How will its margin of error most likely compare?Answer: It will be smaller. Source: College Board, Assessment Framework for the Digital SAT Suite, Table A37: Problem-Solving and Data Analysis, inference from sample statistics and margin of error (a larger sample size generally leads to a smaller margin of error).
A scatterplot of hours studied, x, and quiz score, y, has the line of best fit y = 6.5x + 52. What does the slope of the line mean?Answer: Each added hour goes with about 6.5 more points. Source: College Board, SAT Math section, Types of Math Tested: Problem-Solving and Data Analysis, two-variable data: models and scatterplots. The answer is worked out from the numbers in the question.
Seven quiz scores have a mean of 82. An eighth score of 90 is added. What is the mean of the eight scores?Answer: 83. Source: College Board, SAT Math section, Types of Math Tested: Problem-Solving and Data Analysis, one-variable data: distributions and measures of center and spread. The answer is worked out from the numbers in the question.
Geometry and Trigonometry 7
A rectangular box measures 4 by 5 by 6 units. A second box has every edge twice as long. What is the volume of the second box, in cubic units?Answer: 960. Source: College Board, SAT Math section, Types of Math Tested: Geometry and Trigonometry, area and volume. The answer is worked out from the numbers in the question.
A trapezoid has parallel sides of 7 and 13 and a height of 6. What is its area?Answer: 60. Source: College Board, SAT Math section, Types of Math Tested: Geometry and Trigonometry, area and volume. The answer is worked out from the numbers in the question.
A wire 25 feet long runs from the top of a pole to a point on level ground 7 feet from the base of the pole. What is the cosine of the angle the wire makes with the ground?Answer: 7/25. Source: College Board, SAT Math section, Types of Math Tested: Geometry and Trigonometry, right triangles and trigonometry. The answer is worked out from the numbers in the question.
An angle measures 5π/6 radians. What is its measure in degrees?Answer: 150°. Source: College Board, SAT Math section, Types of Math Tested: Geometry and Trigonometry, circles. The answer is worked out from the numbers in the question.
The hypotenuse of a 30°-60°-90° triangle is 14. How long is the leg opposite the 60° angle?Answer: 7√3. Source: College Board, SAT Math section, Types of Math Tested: Geometry and Trigonometry, right triangles and trigonometry. The answer is worked out from the numbers in the question.
In triangle PQR, angle P measures 47° and angle Q measures 65°. What is the measure of an exterior angle at R?Answer: 112°. Source: College Board, SAT Math section, Types of Math Tested: Geometry and Trigonometry, lines, angles, and triangles. The answer is worked out from the numbers in the question.
Which equation represents the circle in the xy-plane with center (−2, 3) and radius 5?Answer: (x + 2)² + (y − 3)² = 25. Source: College Board, SAT Math section, Types of Math Tested: Geometry and Trigonometry, circles. The answer is worked out from the numbers in the question.
How this list was compiled: Our own texts and questions, written to the College Board's published description of the SAT (What's on the SAT, https://satsuite.collegeboard.org/sat/whats-on-the-test, with its pages How the SAT Is Structured, The Reading and Writing Section and The Math Section, and What Are Content Domains?, https://satsuite.collegeboard.org/practice/content-domains, read 2026-10-12) and to its Assessment Framework for the Digital SAT Suite, version 4, September 2026 (https://satsuite.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/assessment-framework-for-digital-sat-suite.pdf): table 10 (Reading and Writing: Information and Ideas about 26%, Craft and Structure 28%, Expression of Ideas 20%, Standard English Conventions 26%) and tables 16 and 19 (Math: Algebra 35%, Advanced Math 35%, Problem-Solving and Data Analysis 15%, Geometry and Trigonometry 15%). The bank holds 14, 15, 11 and 14 Reading and Writing questions and 15, 15, 7 and 7 Math questions: 54 and 44, one test's length. Every reading text is made up for this page; the people, places, books, records and studies in them are not real. Word meanings were read at Wiktionary and grammar rules at the Purdue Online Writing Lab page each question names, on 2026-10-12. Every math answer was worked out a second time on 2026-10-12. Licence: Texts, questions, choices and explanations are original work of this site.
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Is there an SAT practice test PDF with answers?
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Is an SAT practice test from 2017 or 2018 still the right format?
No. The College Board's framework says nearly all students have taken the SAT digitally since spring 2024. The paper test it replaced had 154 questions in 180 minutes, with a math part that allowed no calculator.
How does SAT practice test scoring work?
Here, as a count: the number right in each content area. The real score is not a count. The College Board's framework says it also weighs which questions were answered correctly, so two students with the same number right can score differently.
Is there a penalty for wrong answers on the SAT?
Not question by question, as there was before the 2015–16 school year, the College Board's framework says. It advises answering every question as well as you can, ruling out a choice or two when unsure, and adds that random guessing is unlikely to help.