SAT Practice Test - 4 - Reading/Writing and Language Test - Essay

Sep 14, 2026

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SAT® Practice Test #4 includes Reading, Writing and Language questions followed by an Essay section, structured around timed passage-based tasks. The materials emphasize careful reading of provided texts and graphics, then selecting best answers based on stated or implied information. Instructions also cover test security and fairness requirements, and specify required tools such as a no. 2 pencil. The passage excerpts and multiple-choice questions focus on comprehension, evidence, word meaning, and rhetorical purpose.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryExam

FormatPDF

Pages36

Reading Time1 h 31 min

AccessFree to download

SAT® Practice Test #4

IMPORTANT REMINDERS

DIRECTIONS

Reading Test

Questions 1-10 (Passage-Based)

Reading / Writing and Language Test + Essay SAT® Practice Test \#4 IMPORTANT REMINDERS a no. 2 pencil is required for the test. do not use a mechanical pencil or pen. sharing any questions with anyone is a violation of test security and Fairness policies and may result in your scores being canceled. this cover is representative of what you’ll see on test day. THIS TEST BOOK MUST NOT BE TAKEN FROM THE ROOM. UNAUTHORIZED REPRODUCTION OR USE OF ANY PART OF THIS TEST BOOK IS PROHIBITED. © 2015 The College Board. College Board, SAT, and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board. | 1 | 1 | | --- | --- | | Reading Test
65 MINUTES, 52 QUESTIONS
Turn to Section 1 of your answer sheet to answer the questions in this section. | | |
DIRECTIONS
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 1-10 are based on the following passage. This passage is adapted from MacDonald Harris, The Balloonist. ©2011 by The Estate of Donald Heiney. During the summer of 1897, the narrator of this story, a fictional Swedish scientist, has set out for the North Pole in a hydrogen-powered balloon. My emotions are complicated and not readily verifiable. I feel a vast yearning that is simultaneously a pleasure and a pain. I am certain Line of the consummation of this yearning, but I don’t 5 know yet what form it will take, since I do not understand quite what it is that the yearning desires. For the first time there is borne in upon me the full truth ofwhat I myself said to the doctor only an hour ago: that my motives in this undertaking are not 10 entirely clear. For years, for a lifetime, the machinery of my destiny has worked in secret to prepare for this moment; its clockwork has moved exactly toward this time and place and no other. Rising slowly from the earth that bore me and gave me sustenance, I am 15 carried helplessly toward an uninhabited and hostile, or at best indifferent, part of the earth, littered with the bones of explorers and the wrecks of ships, frozen supply caches, messages scrawled with chilled fingers and hidden in cairns that no eye will ever see. 20 Nobody has succeeded in this thing, and many have died. Yet in freely willing this enterprise, in choosing this moment and no other when the south wind will carry me exactly northward at a velocity of eight knots, I have converted the machinery of my 25 fate into the servant of my will. All this I understand, as I understand each detail of the technique by which this is carried out. What I don’t understand is why Iam so intent on going to this particular place. Who wants the North Pole! What good is it! Can you eat 30 it? Will it carry you from Gothenburg to Malmö like a railway? The Danish ministers have declared from their pulpits that participation in polar expeditions is beneficial to the soul’s eternal well-being, or so I read in a newspaper. It isn’t clear how this doctrine is to 35 be interpreted, except that the Pole is something difficult or impossible to attain which must nevertheless be sought for, because man is condemned to seek out and know everything whether or not the knowledge gives him pleasure. In 40 short, it is the same unthinking lust for knowledge that drove our First Parents out of the garden. And suppose you were to find it in spite of all, this wonderful place that everybody is so anxious to stand on! What would you find? Exactly nothing. 45 A point precisely identical to all the others in a completely featureless wasteland stretching around it for hundreds of miles. It is an abstraction, a mathematical fiction. No one but a Swedish madman could take the slightest interest in it. Here I am. The 50 wind is still from the south, bearing us steadily

FAQs

What tool is required for SAT Practice Test #4?

The test requires a no. 2 pencil. Mechanical pencils or pens are not allowed.

What are the rules about sharing questions?

Sharing any questions with anyone violates test security and fairness policies and may result in canceled scores.

How are the reading questions answered on this practice test?

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

Sep 14, 2026

Uploaded by Jake