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SAT Practice Exam 5

Full-length  ·  timed  ·  98 questions

This is a full-length, timed practice SAT. Each section has two modules. Work steadily — the difficulty climbs as you go, and Module 2 is the tougher set. You can move between questions within a module, but once a module's time is up it locks and moves on. You may use a graphing calculator on Math; any formula you need is shown with the question. Answers and full explanations appear only at the very end.

Timing: Reading & Writing — two 32-minute modules. Then a 10-minute break. Then Math — two 35-minute modules. About 2 hours 14 minutes total.
When you press start, the timer begins.
Reading & Writing — Module 132 minutes · 27 questions
Section 1 of 2
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Q1Words in Context
The novelist's later style grew increasingly ______: where she once spent pages describing a room, she now conveyed it in a single, exact phrase.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
Q2Words in Context
The committee's praise was ______: warm in public, but undercut by the private reservations several members later expressed.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
Q3Words in Context
Rather than ______ the evidence that complicated her theory, the scientist foregrounded it, building her argument around the very anomalies others ignored.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
Q4Text Structure & Purpose
The passage presents a widely accepted explanation for why a civilization collapsed, devotes a paragraph to the evidence supporting it, and then introduces recent findings that fit the evidence equally well but point to a very different cause.
Which choice best describes the main purpose of the text?
Q5Cross-Text Connections
Text 1: Researcher Falk argues that early exposure to multiple languages confuses young children and slows their overall language development. Text 2: A large study by Oyinlola found that bilingual children briefly lag monolingual peers in each language's vocabulary but match or exceed them in tasks requiring mental flexibility.
Based on the texts, how would Oyinlola's findings (Text 2) most likely bear on Falk's claim (Text 1)?
Q6Central Ideas
The cartographer insisted that every map is an argument. By choosing a projection, a center, and a set of names, the mapmaker advances a particular way of seeing the world — one that masquerades, on the page, as neutral fact.
Which choice best states the main idea of the text?
Q7Central Ideas
The composer rejected the idea that silence was merely the absence of music. A held rest, he argued, could carry more tension than any chord — the listener, waiting, supplies the music that the score withholds.
Which choice best states the main idea of the text?
Q8Command of Evidence (Textual)
A researcher hypothesizes that a songbird learns its song not instinctively but by imitating adults during a narrow window early in life.
Which finding, if true, would most directly support the researcher's hypothesis?
Q9Command of Evidence (Quantitative)
A study tracked two groups of writers. Those who outlined before drafting finished 30% faster and revised 40% less than those who drafted without an outline; final quality ratings were statistically identical.
Which choice best uses the data to support the claim that outlining improved efficiency without sacrificing quality?
Q10Inferences
A desert beetle harvests drinking water from fog: it tilts its body into the wind so that droplets collect on bumps along its back, then run down channels to its mouth. It performs this behavior only on the rare mornings when fog rolls in.
Which choice most logically completes the text?
Q11Inferences
The editor noticed that the manuscript's most powerful chapter was also its shortest. Cutting it further, she found, only sharpened its effect; every sentence she removed made the remaining ones hit harder.
Which choice most logically completes the text?
Q12Central Ideas
Historians once treated rumor as noise to be filtered out of the record. A newer view holds that what people falsely believed, and why, can reveal as much about a society's fears as any documented fact.
Which choice best states the main idea of the text?
Q13Command of Evidence (Textual)
An economist argues that a town's sudden prosperity stemmed not from its new factory but from the road built to serve it, which lowered shipping costs for every business in the area.
Which finding, if true, would most directly support the economist's argument?
Q14Inferences
A fungus grows only on one species of tree and produces a compound that, in laboratory tests, kills the specific beetle that bores into that tree. Trees hosting the fungus show far fewer beetle tunnels than untreated trees nearby.
Which choice most logically completes the text?
Q15Central Ideas
The architect designed the school without a single straight hallway. Every corridor curved, so that no student could see more than a few classrooms ahead — a deliberate choice, she said, to make a large building feel like a series of small, knowable places.
Which choice best states the main idea of the text?
Q16Boundaries (punctuation)
The first attempt failed completely ______ the second, with minor adjustments, succeeded beyond expectations.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
Q17Form, Structure & Sense
The array of sensors mounted along the bridge ______ data to engineers every few seconds.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
Q18Boundaries (punctuation)
The recipe called for three uncommon ingredients ______ saffron, tamarind, and dried lime.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
Q19Form, Structure & Sense
By the time the verdict was read, the jury ______ the evidence for nearly a week.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
Q20Boundaries (punctuation)
The pianist, ______ recordings had shaped a generation of musicians, performed only rarely in her final years.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
Q21Form, Structure & Sense
Neither the lead researcher nor her assistants ______ able to explain the anomaly at first.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
Q22Transitions
The new filtration system removed nearly all contaminants from the water. ______, it did so using half the energy of the system it replaced.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
Q23Transitions
The medication relieved the symptoms within hours. ______, it caused drowsiness severe enough that many patients stopped taking it.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
Q24Transitions
The startup's first product found few buyers. ______, the data it gathered from those early users shaped the far more successful product that followed.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
Q25Rhetorical Synthesis
Notes: • The telescope was launched in 2021. • It observes infrared light. • It has captured images of the earliest known galaxies. • It orbits a million miles from Earth.
The student wants to emphasize the telescope's scientific significance. Which choice best accomplishes this goal?
Q26Rhetorical Synthesis
Notes: • The surgeon developed a new technique. • It reduced recovery time from months to weeks. • She taught it to hundreds of other surgeons. • The technique is now standard in many hospitals.
The student wants to emphasize the broad adoption of the technique. Which choice best accomplishes this goal?
Q27Transitions
The two theories begin from opposite assumptions. ______, they arrive, by very different paths, at strikingly similar predictions.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
Unanswered questions are not penalized.
Reading & Writing — Module 232 minutes · 27 questions
Section 1 of 2
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Q1Words in Context
The diplomat's memoir is valuable precisely because it is so ______: rather than smoothing over her blunders, she dissects them, treating her own misjudgments as the most instructive material she has.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
Q2Words in Context
Critics initially mistook the director's restraint for ______, only later recognizing that what looked like a lack of ambition was in fact rigorous discipline.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
Q3Words in Context
The essay's argument is ______ rather than linear: it circles its subject, approaching the same idea from a dozen angles before its meaning fully emerges.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
Q4Text Structure & Purpose
The author opens by granting her opponents their strongest point — that the policy is expensive — and spends a full paragraph making their case better than they had. Only then does she argue that the cost, properly understood, is the policy's central virtue.
Which choice best describes the function of the opening paragraph?
Q5Cross-Text Connections
Text 1: Critic Reuben argues that restoring old films to pristine digital clarity betrays them, erasing the grain and flicker that were part of how audiences originally experienced them. Text 2: Archivist Lindqvist counters that the 'original experience' is a myth — prints faded and varied from theater to theater — and that careful restoration recovers what the filmmakers actually shot, not some imagined authentic version.
Based on the texts, Lindqvist (Text 2) would most likely characterize Reuben's notion of the 'original experience' (Text 1) as
Q6Central Ideas
The mathematician distinguished between a proof that compels belief and one that explains it. A computer can verify a result by checking millions of cases, leaving us certain but no wiser; a good proof, by contrast, shows us why the result could not have been otherwise.
Which choice best states the main idea of the text?
Q7Inferences
In a long-term experiment, plots of farmland left permanently unplowed lost less topsoil and held more water than tilled plots, yet they also harbored more of the insect pests that overwinter in undisturbed ground. Over fifteen years, the unplowed plots' yields were higher in dry years and lower in wet ones.
Which choice most logically completes the text?
Q8Inferences
The poet revised relentlessly, but her drafts reveal a curious pattern: she rarely added words and almost never changed her images; instead, she removed connective phrases, trusting the reader to leap the gaps she opened. Her final versions are harder to follow but, admirers insist, far more alive.
Which choice most logically completes the text?
Q9Command of Evidence (Quantitative)
A study of two reading programs found that Program A raised comprehension scores 18 points but only for students already reading at grade level; Program B raised scores 11 points across all students, including those furthest behind.
Which choice best uses the data to support the claim that Program B was more equitable, even if less effective on average for strong readers?
Q10Command of Evidence (Textual)
A historian argues that a medieval guild's true purpose was less to maintain quality than to limit competition by keeping the number of trained craftsmen artificially low.
Which finding, if true, would most directly support the historian's argument?
Q11Words in Context
Far from the ______ figure of legend, the explorer revealed in his letters is anxious, indecisive, and frequently homesick — a portrait his official biographers worked hard to suppress.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
Q12Central Ideas
Ecologists increasingly warn against 'shifting baselines': each generation treats the depleted nature it inherits as normal, measuring decline only against its own childhood memories. The true loss, accumulated across generations, becomes invisible to any single observer.
Which choice best states the main idea of the text?
Q13Text Structure & Purpose
The review praises a biography's research, prose, and structure across three paragraphs, then notes in its final line that the book never asks why its subject mattered — a question, the reviewer suggests, that a biography exists to answer.
Which choice best describes the function of the review's final line?
Q14Inferences
A cave salamander tracked over decades was found to move, on average, less than a meter per year and to live well over a century. Individuals marked as adults at the start of one study were still alive, and apparently unaged, at its conclusion fifty years later.
Which choice most logically completes the text?
Q15Cross-Text Connections
Text 1: Theorist Adeyemi argues that giving citizens direct votes on individual laws would deepen democracy by removing the distortions introduced by elected representatives. Text 2: Theorist Brandt grants that representatives distort the public will but argues that direct votes on complex laws would simply transfer power to whoever frames the questions and funds the campaigns, introducing distortions of their own.
Which choice best describes how Brandt (Text 2) responds to Adeyemi (Text 1)?
Q16Boundaries (punctuation)
The expedition's success rested on one fragile assumption ______ that the river would remain frozen long enough for the sledges to cross.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
Q17Form, Structure & Sense
The cluster of symptoms that had baffled physicians for years ______ traced, in the end, to a single inherited mutation.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
Q18Boundaries (punctuation)
The three principles she returned to again and again ______ clarity, economy, and restraint ______ shaped every building in the retrospective.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
Q19Form, Structure & Sense
Were the evidence as conclusive as its defenders claim, the debate ______ long ago.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
Q20Form, Structure & Sense
The reliability of the findings, like the reputations of the labs that produced them, ______ on a careful accounting of every discarded trial.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
Q21Transitions
The algorithm sorted the images with near-perfect accuracy. ______, it offered no way to explain its decisions, making it useless in settings where reasons must be given.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
Q22Transitions
The reform dramatically expanded access to the courts. ______, it did nothing to shorten the years-long delays that made that access, for many, more theoretical than real.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
Q23Transitions
The biologists sequenced the entire genome of the vanishing frog. ______, they preserved a record from which, one day, the species' lost genetic diversity might be partly reconstructed.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
Q24Rhetorical Synthesis
Notes: • The manuscript was written around 1200. • It was overwritten with a prayer book centuries later. • Ultraviolet imaging in 2010 recovered the erased text. • The recovered text contained a lost mathematical treatise.
The student wants to emphasize what modern technology made possible. Which choice best accomplishes this goal?
Q25Rhetorical Synthesis
Notes: • The coral nursery began with 50 fragments. • Fragments were grown on underwater frames. • Survivors were transplanted to a damaged reef. • The reef now shows signs of natural recovery.
The student wants to emphasize the project's restorative outcome. Which choice best accomplishes this goal?
Q26Cross-Text Connections
Text 1: Curator Nakamura argues that returning looted artifacts to their countries of origin restores a wholeness that museums broke, and that no scholarly benefit can justify continued possession. Text 2: Curator Eames agrees the acquisitions were wrong but warns that some origin sites lack the resources to preserve fragile objects, so that immediate return could, in some cases, mean their destruction.
Which choice best describes the relationship between the two texts?
Q27Words in Context
The treatise is admired less for the conclusions it reaches than for the ______ with which it reaches them: each step is justified so thoroughly that the reader, having followed along, finds the result inescapable.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
Last Reading & Writing module — the harder set.

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Math — Module 135 minutes · 22 questions
Section 2 of 2
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Q1Algebra — linear
If 8x − 7 = 49, what is the value of x?
Q2Algebra — linear
A caterer charges a $200 base fee plus $35 per guest. Which equation gives total cost c for g guests?
Q3Problem-Solving — percent
A $150 item is marked up 24%. What is the new price, in dollars?
Q4Algebra — slope
slope = (y₂ − y₁)/(x₂ − x₁)
What is the slope of the line through (−1, 2) and (3, 14)?
Q5Advanced Math — exponents
(ab)ⁿ = aⁿbⁿ
Which expression equals (2x³)²?
Q6Problem-Solving — ratio
A fertilizer blends nitrogen and phosphorus in a 5 : 3 ratio. If 15 kg of nitrogen are used, how much phosphorus?
Q7Algebra — systems
If 2x + y = 20 and y = 2x, what is the value of x?
Q8Advanced Math — quadratic
What are the solutions to x² − 10x + 21 = 0?
Q9Geometry — angles
complementary angles sum to 90°
Two angles are complementary. If one measures 37°, what is the other?
Q10Problem-Solving — data
The values 4, 6, 10, 10, 10, 14 form a data set. What is the mode?
Q11Algebra — inequality
Which describes all x with 2x + 9 > 5x − 6?
Q12Advanced Math — function
If f(x) = x² − 4x + 1, what is f(4)?
Q13Geometry — area
area = ½(b₁ + b₂) × h
A trapezoid has parallel sides 6 and 10 and height 4. What is its area?
Q14Algebra — linear
If y = mx + 4 passes through (6, 22), what is m?
Q15Problem-Solving — proportion
A map scale is 1 inch = 25 miles. How many miles do 3.5 inches represent?
Q16Advanced Math — exponential
final = initial × 2ⁿ
A 12-cell sample doubles every hour. How many cells after 5 hours?
Q17Geometry — circle
circumference = πd
A circle has diameter 10. What is its circumference? (Use π.)
Q18Advanced Math — factoring
a² − b² = (a + b)(a − b)
Which expression equals 4x² − 9?
Q19Problem-Solving — data
In a class, the ratio of students who passed to failed is 8 : 1. If 3 students failed, how many passed?
Q20Geometry — Pythagorean
a² + b² = c²
A right triangle has legs 7 and 24. What is the length of the hypotenuse?
Q21Advanced Math — function
If g(x) = 2x² − 8x, for what nonzero x does g(x) = 0?
Q22Algebra — translate
A storage unit costs $50 to reserve plus $75 per month. Which gives total cost for m months?
Calculator allowed. Formulas shown where needed.
Math — Module 235 minutes · 22 questions
Section 2 of 2
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Q1Advanced Math — quadratic
sum of roots = −b ; product = c
The quadratic x² + bx + 24 has roots x = 4 and x = 6. What is b?
Q2Algebra — systems
If 3x + 4y = 31 and 3x − 4y = 5, what is the value of x?
Q3Advanced Math — exponents
if bᵃ = bᶜ then a = c
If 4^(2x) = 64, what is x?
Q4Advanced Math — rational
For x ≠ −3, the expression (x² + x − 6)/(x + 3) equals
Q5Algebra — linear modeling
A scuba tank starts with 3000 psi and is used at 50 psi per minute. After how many minutes does pressure drop below 500 psi?
Q6Geometry — similar triangles
perimeter ratio = side ratio
Two similar triangles have sides in ratio 2 : 5. If the smaller has perimeter 16, what is the larger's perimeter?
Q7Advanced Math — vertex
y = (x − h)² + k has vertex (h, k)
The parabola y = (x + 2)² − 7 has vertex (h, k). What is the value of h + k?
Q8Advanced Math — discriminant
one solution when b² − 4ac = 0
For what value of c does x² + 6x + c = 0 have exactly one real solution?
Q9Problem-Solving — percent change
A population grows 20% one year and 20% the next. Over the two years, it grows by
Q10Algebra — absolute value
What is the sum of all solutions to |2x − 6| = 10?
Q11Advanced Math — exponential model
final = initial × 3^(t/period)
A culture triples every 2 hours, starting at 40 cells. How many cells after 6 hours?
Q12Geometry — trig
a² + b² = c²
In a right triangle, angle θ has opposite 9 and adjacent 12. What is the hypotenuse?
Q13Advanced Math — systems nonlinear
If y = x² − 1 and y = 3, what are the x-values of the solutions?
Q14Problem-Solving — weighted average
overall = Σ(weight × score)
A test counts homework 30% and the exam 70%. A student scores 90 on homework and 80 on the exam. What is the overall grade?
Q15Advanced Math — equivalent
Which expression is equivalent to (x + 3)(x − 5)?
Q16Geometry — volume
volume = l × w × h
A rectangular prism has length 5, width 4, and height 3. What is its volume?
Q17Algebra — system word problem
A store sells notebooks for $4 and pens for $2. A customer bought 10 items for $32. How many notebooks?
Q18Problem-Solving — probability
P = favorable / total outcomes
Two fair coins are flipped. What is the probability of getting exactly one head?
Q19Advanced Math — exponent
x^(2/3) = 9 → x = 9^(3/2)
If x^(2/3) = 9, what is x?
Q20Geometry — coordinate
midpoint = ((x₁+x₂)/2, (y₁+y₂)/2)
What is the midpoint of the segment from (2, 3) to (8, 11)?
Q21Advanced Math — function composition
If f(x) = x² and g(x) = 2x − 1, what is the value of g(f(3))?
Q22Algebra — linear system
At what x do y = 5x − 7 and y = 2x + 8 intersect?
Last module — the harder set.

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