PSAT 10 - Practice Test #2 - Reading/Writing and Language Tests

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PSAT™ 10 Practice Test #2 focuses on Reading, Writing, and Language question types that mirror the structure of the official exam. The Reading section uses a timed passage and a set of questions based on details and implications in the text and any accompanying graphics. The provided excerpt includes narrative context and question prompts that require selecting the best answer among multiple choices, emphasizing comprehension, inference, and evidence from the passage.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryExam

FormatPDF

Pages42

Reading Time1 h 46 min

AccessFree to download

Section 1: Reading Test

Passage-based questions (1-9)

Multiple-choice evidence and inference

PSAT™ 10 Practice Test \#2 Reading/ Writing and Language Tests Make time to take the practice test. It’s one of the best ways to get ready for the PSAT 10. After you take the practice test, score it right away [at](at collegeboard.org/psatscoring)[ collegeboard.org/psatscoring](at collegeboard.org/psatscoring). 5LPT01 | 1 | 1 | | --- | --- | | Reading Test
60 MINUTES, 47 QUESTIONS
Turn to Section 1 of your answer sheet to answer the questions in this section. | | |
Each passage or pair of passages below is followed by a number of questions. After reading each passage or pair, choose the best answer to each question based on what is stated or implied in the passage or passages and in any accompanying graphics (such as a table or graph) . | | Questions 1-9 are based on the following passage. This passage is adapted from Mark Slouka, Brewster: A Novel.©2013 by Mark Slouka. This was a time trial, he said—a one-mile time trial, four laps—not a race. It was meant to give an idea ofwhere we stood, no more. Line We’d gathered around the middle of the long side 5 of the track, just ten or twelve of us, including three others who seemed new like me, jogging back and forth in the wind, loosening up. The rest had walked over to the other side of the field. Falvo took me aside.“Warmed up? How’re the 10 shoes?” “Fine.” In the distance I could see kids walking toward the parking lot. The sun stabbed out from under the clouds, glancing off the windshields. He raised his voice over the wind.“All right, I 15 want you all to stay contained, stay smooth. I don’t want to see anybody draining the well today—that means you, Mr. McCann.” A tall, tough-looking kid with red hair and a tight face smiled like a gunslinger. He turned to me.“I don’t want you doing 20 anything stupid, Mosher. Some of these boys have been at it for a while. Don’t think about them, think about yourself.” I shrugged. “Pace yourself. Let them do what they do. They’ll 25 be about thirty yards ahead after the first lap. Don’t worry about them. Go out slow, feel your way, then bring it home as best you can. OK?” “Sure,” I said. “Remember, it’s a time trial. Not a race.” 30 There was no starting gun. We lined up in the gusty wind, Falvo standing in the soggy infield in his dress shoes holding his clipboard like a small high table against his chest with his left hand and his stopwatch in his right and then he barked,“Runners 35 marks? Go!” They didn’t run, they flowed—the kid in the headband, the red-headed kid, and two or three others in particular—with a quiet, aggressive, sustained power that looked like nothing but felt 40 like murder and I was with them and then halfway through the third turn they were moving away smooth as water and I could hear them talking among themselves, and I was slowing, burning, leaning back like there was a rope around my neck. 45 “Too fast, Mosher, too fast,” I heard Falvo yelling, and his ax-sharp face came out of nowhere looking almost frantic and then it was gone and there was just the sound of my breathing and the crunch of my sneakers slapping the dirt. The group, still in a tight 50 cluster, wasn’t all that far ahead of me. By the end of the second lap I heard someone faraway yelling “Stop, Mosher, that’s enough,” and then at some point someone else calling “Coming through—inside,” and they passed me like a single 55 mass, all business now, and I remember staggering after them, gasping, drowning, my chest, my legs, my throat filling with lead and looking up through a fog of pain just in time to see the kid with the headband, halfway down the backstretch, accelerating into a 60 sustained, powerful sprint. Unauthorized copying or reuse of any part of this page is illegal. 7 CONTINUE 1 1 I don’t know why. I can’t explain it. By the end of the third lap I was barely moving, clawing at the air, oblivious to everything except the dirt unfolding endlessly in fron

FAQs

How should you answer questions in the Reading Test section?

After reading each passage or pair, choose the best answer based on what is stated or implied in the passage and any accompanying graphics.

What timing and question count apply to the Reading Test?

The Reading Test is 60 minutes with 47 questions.

Where do the PSAT 10 practice test score results need to be checked?

Score it right away at collegeboard.org/psatscoring.

Aug 29, 2026

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