SC READY Practice Test

Math and English language arts questions for grades 3 to 8, written to South Carolina's blueprints, each one explained.

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A florist ties 5 tulips into each bunch. How many tulips are in 8 bunches?

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The real tests: what South Carolina publishes

English language arts, grades 3 to 5
Three sessions on three days: Writing, Reading Part A and Reading Part B. 50 operational items, one of them a text-dependent writing item.
English language arts, grades 6 to 8
Two sessions on two days: Writing and Reading. 55 operational items, one of them a text-dependent writing item.
Math
One day, 50 operational items. In grades 6 to 8 the day has two sections: No Calculator first, then Calculator.
Time
Not timed. The state's scheduling estimates: Writing 100 minutes, each Reading part (grades 3 to 5) 60, Reading (grades 6 to 8) 75, math 105 or 80.
Scores
A scale score in one of four levels: Does Not Meet, Approaches, Meets, Exceeds.
How it is given
Online. Paper tests are for students whose education or language plans call for them and for districts with a waiver.

Checked October 9, 2026 against the SC READY page and the four SC READY test blueprints for 2026-27 of the South Carolina Department of Education. Rules change, so confirm with the agency itself before your test.

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Grades 3 to 5: all 40 questions

Math 20

  • A bag holds 6 red marbles and no other colors. Tia picks one marble without looking. Which word describes picking a blue marble? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 4, indicator 4.DPSR.2.1; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Data, Probability, and Statistical Reasoning
  • A box is 5 units long, 3 units wide and 4 units tall. How many unit cubes fill it? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 5, indicator 5.MGSR.1.2; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Measurement, Geometry, and Spatial Reasoning
  • A farmer packs 1,254 apples into bags of 6. How many full bags does she fill? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 4, indicator 4.PAFR.1.4; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Patterns, Algebra, and Functional Reasoning
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Math, continued

  • A florist ties 5 tulips into each bunch. How many tulips are in 8 bunches? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 3, indicator 3.PAFR.1.3; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Patterns, Algebra, and Functional Reasoning
  • A number pattern starts 14, 21, 28, 35. What are the next three numbers? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 3, indicator 3.PAFR.2.3; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Patterns, Algebra, and Functional Reasoning
  • A rectangular garden has a perimeter of 40 feet. It is 12 feet long. How wide is it? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 4, indicator 4.MGSR.1.1; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Measurement, Geometry, and Spatial Reasoning
  • A ribbon is 4 yards long. One yard is 36 inches. How long is the ribbon in inches? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 5, indicator 5.MGSR.2.1; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Measurement, Geometry, and Spatial Reasoning
  • A triangle has sides of 6 inches, 9 inches and 11 inches. Which name fits it? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 4, indicator 4.MGSR.3.1; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Measurement, Geometry, and Spatial Reasoning
  • A triangle has sides of 7 inches, 10 inches and 13 inches. What is its perimeter? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 3, indicator 3.MGSR.1.2; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Measurement, Geometry, and Spatial Reasoning
  • Five plants are 4.5, 6, 4.5, 7.5 and 5 inches tall. What are the range and the mode of the heights? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 5, indicator 5.DPSR.1.1; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Data, Probability, and Statistical Reasoning
  • In a picture graph, each book symbol stands for 5 books. Room A has 7 symbols. How many books did Room A read? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 3, indicator 3.DPSR.1.2; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Data, Probability, and Statistical Reasoning
  • Maya walked 3/4 mile to the park and then 2/3 mile to the library. How far did she walk in all? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 5, indicator 5.PAFR.2.1; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Patterns, Algebra, and Functional Reasoning
  • Sam buys 3 packs of 8 pencils and gives away 5 pencils. Which expression shows how many pencils he has left? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 5, indicator 5.PAFR.3.4; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Patterns, Algebra, and Functional Reasoning
  • Soccer practice starts at 3:30 PM and ends at 5:00 PM. How long is practice? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 3, indicator 3.MGSR.2.3; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Measurement, Geometry, and Spatial Reasoning
  • What is 6.748 rounded to the nearest tenth? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 5, indicator 5.NR.1.3; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Numerical Reasoning
  • What is 43 × 26? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 4, indicator 4.PAFR.1.3; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Patterns, Algebra, and Functional Reasoning
  • What is 352 rounded to the nearest hundred? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 3, indicator 3.NR.1.4; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Numerical Reasoning
  • Which comparison of decimals is true? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 4, indicator 4.NR.2.2; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Numerical Reasoning
  • Which fraction is greater than 3/8? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 3, indicator 3.NR.2.6; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Numerical Reasoning
  • Which mixed number is equal to 11/4? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 4, indicator 4.NR.2.5; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Numerical Reasoning

English language arts 20

  • A student writes: "Recess should be longer. Kids need time to move. ______, a longer break helps us focus in class." Which transition best fills the blank? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready English Language Arts Standards (2024), grade 5, indicator ELA.5.C.1.1; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Writing
  • Dev wants to research "animals." His teacher says the topic is too big. Which question narrows it best? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready English Language Arts Standards (2024), grade 3, indicator ELA.3.R.1.1; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Research and Evaluating Ideas
  • Lena is researching how honeybees make honey. Which source is most likely to be credible? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready English Language Arts Standards (2024), grade 4, indicator ELA.4.R.1.2; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Research and Evaluating Ideas
  • Omar is writing a report on how recycling works at his school. Which note is relevant to his topic? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready English Language Arts Standards (2024), grade 5, indicator ELA.5.R.1.3; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Research and Evaluating Ideas
  • Read the paragraph. "Heavy rain fell on Oak Park all week. Because the ground could not hold more water, the creek spilled over its banks. As a result, the lower trail was closed." How is this paragraph organized? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready English Language Arts Standards (2024), grade 3, indicator ELA.3.AOR.5.2; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Reading Informational Text
  • Read the paragraph. "Our town should add a crossing guard at Elm and First. Last month, the school counted 212 children crossing there each morning. Everyone knows that corner is scary. A guard would make the walk safer." Which sentence is evidence, a fact that can be checked? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready English Language Arts Standards (2024), grade 4, indicator ELA.4.AOR.5.3; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Reading Informational Text
  • Read the paragraph. "The Maple Street Library has a seed shelf. Visitors may take a packet of seeds for free. In the fall, they bring back seeds from the plants they grew. This way the shelf is full again each spring." What is the central idea? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready English Language Arts Standards (2024), grade 3, indicator ELA.3.AOR.2.2; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Reading Informational Text
  • Read the passage. "I tiptoed past the kitchen, but the floor creaked. My heart thumped as Grandpa looked up from his paper." From which point of view is it told? Cambridge Dictionary, "first person"; South Carolina College- and Career-Ready English Language Arts Standards (2024), grade 4, indicator ELA.4.AOR.3.1; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Reading Literary Text
  • Read the sentence. "Dad's voice was thunder in the small kitchen." What does the metaphor show? Cambridge Dictionary, "metaphor"; South Carolina College- and Career-Ready English Language Arts Standards (2024), grade 5, indicator ELA.5.AOR.8.1; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Reading (vocabulary) Across Genres
  • Read the sentences. "The new puppy was timid. It hid behind the couch whenever a visitor came in." What does "timid" mean? Cambridge Dictionary, "timid"; South Carolina College- and Career-Ready English Language Arts Standards (2024), grade 3, indicator ELA.3.AOR.7.1; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Reading (vocabulary) Across Genres
  • Read the story. "On the first day of swim lessons, Ben held the edge of the pool and would not let go. Each week he let go for a little longer. On the last day he swam across the pool and waved to his dad." How does Ben change? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready English Language Arts Standards (2024), grade 3, indicator ELA.3.AOR.1.1; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Reading Literary Text
  • Read the story. "Rosa's bean seeds did not sprout for days. Her brother said to dig them up. Rosa kept watering them every morning. On the tenth day, green shoots pushed up. 'Good things take time,' Rosa said." What is the theme? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready English Language Arts Standards (2024), grade 3, indicator ELA.3.AOR.2.1; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Reading Literary Text
  • Read the story. "The storm knocked out the lights across the island, and the last ferry had left. With no way to call the mainland, Kai and his aunt lit the old lighthouse lamp by hand so the fishing boats could find the harbor." How does the setting shape the plot? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready English Language Arts Standards (2024), grade 5, indicator ELA.5.AOR.1.1; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Reading Literary Text
  • Read two accounts of one game. Text 1, a player's diary: "The gym shook when we scored. I could not hear my own voice." Text 2, a town history written years later: "The Tigers won the final 42 to 40." How do the accounts differ? Cambridge Dictionary, "primary source and secondary source"; South Carolina College- and Career-Ready English Language Arts Standards (2024), grade 5, indicator ELA.5.AOR.4.1; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Reading Informational Text
  • Which compound sentence uses a comma correctly? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready English Language Arts Standards (2024), grade 4, indicator ELA.4.C.4.1; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Writing
  • Which group of words is a complete sentence? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready English Language Arts Standards (2024), grade 3, indicator ELA.3.C.4.1; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Writing
  • Which sentence uses "there," "their" and "they're" correctly? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready English Language Arts Standards (2024), grade 4, indicator ELA.4.C.4.1; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Writing
  • Which sentence uses a comma correctly after its opening phrase? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready English Language Arts Standards (2024), grade 5, indicator ELA.5.C.4.1; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Writing
  • Which sentence uses an apostrophe correctly? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready English Language Arts Standards (2024), grade 3, indicator ELA.3.C.4.1; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Writing
  • The word part "tele-" means "over a long distance." Which word names a tool that makes faraway objects look closer? Cambridge Dictionary, "tele- and telescope"; South Carolina College- and Career-Ready English Language Arts Standards (2024), grade 4, indicator ELA.4.AOR.9.1; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Reading (vocabulary) Across Genres

How this list was compiled: Outline: the SC READY test blueprints for 2026-27 of the South Carolina Department of Education, Office of Assessment and Standards, linked from the department's SC READY page, https://ed.sc.gov/tests/middle/sc-ready/: SC READY Mathematics Grades 3-5 Test Blueprint, https://ed.sc.gov/tests/tests-files/sc-ready-files/sc-ready-math-3-5-blueprint/, and SC READY ELA 3-5 Test Blueprint, https://ed.sc.gov/tests/tests-files/sc-ready-files/sc-ready-ela-3-5-blueprint/. Read 2026-10-09. Each question names the indicator it practices: the 2025 South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (approved December 2023, emended July 2026), https://ed.sc.gov/instruction/standards/mathematics/standards/2025-south-carolina-college-and-career-ready-mathematics-standards/, and the 2024 South Carolina College- and Career-Ready English Language Arts Standards (approved January 2023, emended August 2025), https://ed.sc.gov/instruction/standards/english-language-arts/standards/2023-sc-ccr-ela-standards-approved/. Both read 2026-10-09. Mathematics answers are arithmetic on the numbers in the question, worked out again. Reading answers rest on the short text printed in the question. Where a question names the Cambridge Dictionary, that entry was read the same day. Licence: Own work. Questions, reading texts, answer choices and explanations were written for this site. Nothing is copied or reworded from an SC READY test, the state's sample items, its Online Tools Training or another practice test.

Grades 6 to 8: all 40 questions

Math 20

  • A $60 pair of boots is on sale for 15% off. What is the sale price? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 7, indicator 7.PAFR.1.1; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Patterns, Algebra, and Functional Reasoning
  • A coin is flipped and one card is drawn from eight cards numbered 1 to 8. What is the probability of tails and a number greater than 6? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 8, indicator 8.DPSR.2.2; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Data, Probability, and Statistical Reasoning
  • A paint mix uses 2 parts blue for every 5 parts white. How many parts of white go with 8 parts of blue? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 6, indicator 6.PAFR.2.8; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Patterns, Algebra, and Functional Reasoning
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Math, continued

  • A parallelogram has a base of 9 inches and a height of 6 inches. What is its area? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 6, indicator 6.MGSR.1.1; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Measurement, Geometry, and Spatial Reasoning
  • A rectangular gate is 6 feet wide and 8 feet tall. How long is a brace that runs from one corner to the opposite corner? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 8, indicator 8.MGSR.1.3; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Measurement, Geometry, and Spatial Reasoning
  • A round table has a diameter of 6 feet. What is its exact circumference? Use C = πd. South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 7, indicator 7.MGSR.1.3; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Measurement, Geometry, and Spatial Reasoning
  • A sandwich shop offers 3 breads and 4 fillings. A sandwich has one bread and one filling. How many outcomes are in the sample space? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 8, indicator 8.DPSR.2.1; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Data, Probability, and Statistical Reasoning
  • Ava spins a spinner 50 times. It lands on green 18 times. What is the experimental probability of green? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 7, indicator 7.DPSR.2.3; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Data, Probability, and Statistical Reasoning
  • Pay is proportional to hours worked: 2 hours pays $25, 4 hours pays $50 and 6 hours pays $75. What is the constant of proportionality, in dollars per hour? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 7, indicator 7.PAFR.1.3; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Patterns, Algebra, and Functional Reasoning
  • The point (−2, 5) is rotated 180° about the origin. What are the coordinates of its image? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 8, indicator 8.MGSR.3.5; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Measurement, Geometry, and Spatial Reasoning
  • Seven quiz scores are 6, 9, 7, 10, 8, 4 and 9. What is the median score? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 6, indicator 6.DPSR.1.4; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Data, Probability, and Statistical Reasoning
  • The temperature was −6°F at dawn and rose 15 degrees by noon. What was the temperature at noon? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 6, indicator 6.PAFR.3.5; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Patterns, Algebra, and Functional Reasoning
  • Two angles are supplementary. One measures 72°. What is the measure of the other? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 6, indicator 6.MGSR.2.1; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Measurement, Geometry, and Spatial Reasoning
  • Two angles of a triangle measure 44° and 79°. What is the measure of the third angle? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 7, indicator 7.MGSR.2.1; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Measurement, Geometry, and Spatial Reasoning
  • What is 2.5% written as a decimal? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 8, indicator 8.NR.1.1; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Numerical Reasoning
  • What is the solution of 4x − 9 = 23? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 7, indicator 7.PAFR.2.1; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Patterns, Algebra, and Functional Reasoning
  • What is the solution of 7x − 4 = 3x + 20? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 8, indicator 8.PAFR.2.1; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Patterns, Algebra, and Functional Reasoning
  • What is the value of 3 + 4² × 2? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 6, indicator 6.PAFR.2.3; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Patterns, Algebra, and Functional Reasoning
  • Which percent is equal to 7/20? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 6, indicator 6.NR.1.1; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Numerical Reasoning
  • Which statement about these negative numbers is true? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 7, indicator 7.NR.2.1; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Numerical Reasoning

English language arts 20

  • A student argues that school should start later. Which sentence acknowledges and refutes a counterclaim? Cambridge Dictionary, "counterclaim"; South Carolina College- and Career-Ready English Language Arts Standards (2024), grade 8, indicator ELA.8.C.1.1; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Writing
  • A student wrote: "Walking to school, the rain soaked my backpack." Which revision fixes the dangling modifier? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready English Language Arts Standards (2024), grade 7, indicator ELA.7.C.4.1; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Writing
  • In which sentence is it unclear who the pronoun "she" refers to? Cambridge Dictionary, "antecedent"; South Carolina College- and Career-Ready English Language Arts Standards (2024), grade 6, indicator ELA.6.C.4.1; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Writing
  • Nora's research question is "How does a school garden change what students choose at lunch?" Which finding is most relevant? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready English Language Arts Standards (2024), grade 8, indicator ELA.8.R.1.3; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Research and Evaluating Ideas
  • The prefix "inter-" means "between or among." Which word describes a contest between two or more countries? Cambridge Dictionary, "inter- and international"; South Carolina College- and Career-Ready English Language Arts Standards (2024), grade 7, indicator ELA.7.AOR.9.1; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Reading (vocabulary) Across Genres
  • Read the argument. "Every other school in the county has dropped weekend homework, so we should too." Which describes the reasoning? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready English Language Arts Standards (2024), grade 8, indicator ELA.8.AOR.5.3; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Reading Informational Text
  • Read the paragraph. "Each week our cafeteria throws away about 900 plastic bottles. We can keep filling the trash bins, or we can fill a reusable bottle. The choice costs nothing but a habit." What is the author's purpose? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready English Language Arts Standards (2024), grade 7, indicator ELA.7.AOR.4.1; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Reading Informational Text
  • Read the paragraph. "The town council voted 5 to 2 on Monday to build a skate park beside the community pool. Supporters said teens need a safe place to ride. Opponents worried about noise. Work is set to begin in spring." Which is the best summary? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready English Language Arts Standards (2024), grade 7, indicator ELA.7.AOR.6.1; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Reading Informational Text
  • Read the paragraph. "When Cedar Falls Middle School moved its start time from 7:30 to 8:30, teachers noticed changes within a month. Fewer students came late. Fewer fell asleep in first period. First-period quiz scores rose." Which central idea do the details develop? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready English Language Arts Standards (2024), grade 6, indicator ELA.6.AOR.2.2; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Reading Informational Text
  • Read the passage. "'I never touched the cookie jar,' I told Mom, brushing crumbs off my shirt. 'It must have been the dog.'" Why might a reader doubt this narrator? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready English Language Arts Standards (2024), grade 7, indicator ELA.7.AOR.3.1; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Reading Literary Text
  • Read the passage. "Before the hike, Dad tapped the fuel gauge, frowned, and said, 'We'll fill up on the way back.' Hours later, on the empty mountain road, the engine coughed." What does the first sentence do in the story? Cambridge Dictionary, "foreshadow"; South Carolina College- and Career-Ready English Language Arts Standards (2024), grade 8, indicator ELA.8.AOR.5.1; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Reading Literary Text
  • Read the sentence. "A deafening silence filled the room after the announcement." What does the oxymoron "deafening silence" suggest? Cambridge Dictionary, "oxymoron"; South Carolina College- and Career-Ready English Language Arts Standards (2024), grade 8, indicator ELA.8.AOR.8.1; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Reading (vocabulary) Across Genres
  • Read the sentence. "After the long dry summer, the once-deep pond had dwindled to a muddy puddle." What does "dwindled" mean? Cambridge Dictionary, "dwindle"; South Carolina College- and Career-Ready English Language Arts Standards (2024), grade 6, indicator ELA.6.AOR.7.1; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Reading (vocabulary) Across Genres
  • Read the sentence. "The wind clawed at the shutters, and the old house groaned under the black sky." What mood does the figurative language create? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready English Language Arts Standards (2024), grade 6, indicator ELA.6.AOR.1.2; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Reading Literary Text
  • Tariq is researching how his town cleans its drinking water. Which source is most credible? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready English Language Arts Standards (2024), grade 6, indicator ELA.6.R.1.2; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Research and Evaluating Ideas
  • These words all describe someone who wants to know things. Which one has the most negative connotation? Cambridge Dictionary, "nosy, curious and connotation"; South Carolina College- and Career-Ready English Language Arts Standards (2024), grade 6, indicator ELA.6.AOR.8.1; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Reading (vocabulary) Across Genres
  • Which research question is focused enough for a two-page report? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready English Language Arts Standards (2024), grade 7, indicator ELA.7.R.1.1; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Research and Evaluating Ideas
  • Which sentence correctly sets off the extra information? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready English Language Arts Standards (2024), grade 6, indicator ELA.6.C.4.1; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Writing
  • Which sentence is in the active voice? Cambridge Dictionary, "active"; South Carolina College- and Career-Ready English Language Arts Standards (2024), grade 8, indicator ELA.8.C.4.1; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Writing
  • Which sentence punctuates the two adjectives correctly? South Carolina College- and Career-Ready English Language Arts Standards (2024), grade 7, indicator ELA.7.C.4.1; SC READY blueprint reporting category: Writing

How this list was compiled: Outline: the SC READY test blueprints for 2026-27 of the South Carolina Department of Education, Office of Assessment and Standards, linked from the department's SC READY page, https://ed.sc.gov/tests/middle/sc-ready/: SC READY Mathematics Grades 6-8 Test Blueprint, https://ed.sc.gov/tests/tests-files/sc-ready-files/sc-ready-math-6-8-blueprint/, and SC READY ELA 6-8 Test Blueprint, https://ed.sc.gov/tests/tests-files/sc-ready-files/sc-ready-ela-6-8-blueprint/. Read 2026-10-09. Each question names the indicator it practices: the 2025 South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (approved December 2023, emended July 2026), https://ed.sc.gov/instruction/standards/mathematics/standards/2025-south-carolina-college-and-career-ready-mathematics-standards/, and the 2024 South Carolina College- and Career-Ready English Language Arts Standards (approved January 2023, emended August 2025), https://ed.sc.gov/instruction/standards/english-language-arts/standards/2023-sc-ccr-ela-standards-approved/. Both read 2026-10-09. Mathematics answers are arithmetic on the numbers in the question, worked out again. Reading answers rest on the short text printed in the question. Where a question names the Cambridge Dictionary, that entry was read the same day. Licence: Own work. Questions, reading texts, answer choices and explanations were written for this site. Nothing is copied or reworded from an SC READY test, the state's sample items, its Online Tools Training or another practice test.

How it works

Unofficial practice for South Carolina's SC READY tests: one set for grades 3 to 5, one for grades 6 to 8. No question comes from a real test. Not affiliated with the South Carolina Department of Education.

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What is in each set

Each set has 20 math questions and 20 English language arts questions, youngest grade first. Math is spread over the four reporting categories of the state's blueprint. English language arts covers reading, vocabulary, writing and research. Every reading question prints its own short text, because the real test's long passages cannot be copied.

How the answers are checked

Each question names the South Carolina indicator it practices and its reporting category. Math answers are worked out again from the numbers in the question. Reading answers rest on the text printed with the question, and word meanings on a named dictionary entry.

Questions and answers

Is this SC READY practice test free?

Yes. Both sets are free with no sign-up, and your answers stay in this browser. The questions were written for this site from the state's blueprints, and none is taken from an SC READY test.

Is there an official SC READY online practice test?

The state's page describes Online Tools Training, a module on the DRC INSIGHT Portal that simulates the testing environment so students can try the test's tools. It says no account is needed. This page is separate and unofficial.

Which grades and subjects does SC READY test?

Grades 3 to 8 take English language arts and math. The state's format table, updated August 2026, lists science for grades 4 and 6. This page practices math and English language arts only.

Is the SC READY test timed?

No. The state says the tests are not timed. It gives times for scheduling only, such as about 105 minutes for math in grades 3 to 5 and 80 minutes in grades 6 to 8.

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