SAT Practice Test 5 - Digital SAT practice in nondigital format

Aug 29, 2026

SAT Practice Test #5 provides timed practice for the Reading and Writing section with multiple-choice questions based on varied passages, including historical and literary excerpts, scientific research summaries, and social history arguments. Directions emphasize careful reading of each passage, which may include tables or graphs, and selecting the single best answer among four choices. The test also includes domain vocabulary items and main-purpose questions to strengthen accuracy, evidence-based reasoning, and precision under exam conditions.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryExam

FormatPDF

Pages56

Reading Time2 h 21 min

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Reading and Writing

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Sample questions and passage-based prompts

The SAT PracticeTest\#5 | | | --- | | Make time to take the practice test.
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This version of the SAT Practice Test is for students who will be taking
the digital SAT in nondigital format. | 6VSL01 Test begins on the next page. 1 1 # Reading and Writing33 QUESTIONS DIRECTIONS The questions in this section address a number of important reading and writing skills.Eachquestion includes one or more passages,which may include a table or graph.Read each passageand question carefully,and then choose the best answer to the question based on the passage(s). All questions in this section are multiple-choice with four answer choices.Each question has asingle best answer. 2 The following text is from the 1913 story "The King'sCoin”by Emily Pauline Johnson,a Kanienkahagen(Mohawk)writer also known as Tekahionwake.Fox-Foot,a young Ojibwe man,is guiding agroup offur traders who are traveling by canoe and suspectsthat they are being followed. Many ancient sculptures of people's heads aremissing their noses.This is because the nose is themost. part of a sculpture of a person's head.It is delicate and sticks out from the rest of thesculpture,making it especially easy to break.Which choice completes the text with the mostlogical and precise word or phrase? At supper time,Fox-Foot would allow no fire tobe built,no landing to be made,no trace of theirpassing to be left.They ate canned meat andmarmalade,drank again of the stream andpushed on,until just at dusk they reached theedge of a long,still lake,with shores of graniteand dense fir forest. A)recognizable B)fragile C)common D)sophisticated As used in the text,what does the word “trace”mostnearly mean? A)Evidence B)Blemish C)Amount D)Sketch 1 3 K.D.Leka and colleagues found that the Sun'scorona provides an advance indication of solarflares—intense eruptions of electromagneticradiation that emanate from active regions inthe Sun's photosphere and can interfere withtelecommunications on Earth.Preceding a flare,thecorona temporarily exhibits increased brightnessabove the region where the flare is_ Which choice completes the text with the mostlogical and precise word or phrase? A)antecedent B)impending C)innocuous D)perpetual 4 To demonstrate that the integrity of undergroundmetal pipes can be assessed without unearthing thepipes,engineer Aroba Saleem and colleagues the tendency of some metals'internalmagnetic fields to alter under stress:the team showedthat such alterations can be measured from adistance and can reveal concentrations of stress inthe pipes. Which choice completes the text with the mostlogical and precise word or phrase? A)hypothesized B)discounted C)redefined D)exploited 5 6 1 Despite the generalizations about human behaviorthey have produced,many studies of behavioralpsychology have used highly unrepresentative subjectpools:students at the colleges and universities wherethe researchers are employed.To. thissituation,it is necessary to actively recruit subjectsfrom diverse backgrounds and locations. Which choice completes the text with the mostlogical and precise word or phrase? A)sanction B)ameliorate C)rationalize D)postulate The following text is adapted from Jean Webster's1912 novel Daddy-Long-Legs.The narrator is a youngcollege student writing letters detailing her weeklyexperiences. [The college is]organizing the Freshmanbasket-ball team and there's just a chance that Ishallmake it.I'm little of course,but terriblyquick and wiry and tough.While the others arehopping about in the air,I can dodge under theirfeet and grab the ball. Which choice best states the main purpose of thetext? A)To compare basketball with other sports B)To provide details of how to play basketball C)To state how players wi

FAQs

How are the questions in the Reading and Writing section structured?

Each question includes one or more passages and is multiple-choice with four answer choices. Every question has a single best answer based on the passage(s).

What should test-takers do after completing the practice test?

Score it right away at sat.org/digital-practice to review performance and improve before the SAT.

What kinds of content are included in the passages?

The passages cover a range of topics such as literature, history, scientific research, and informational descriptions, followed by main-purpose and vocabulary-in-context questions.

Aug 29, 2026

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