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SAT practice module 1: Reading and Writing
This is one Reading and Writing module in the digital SAT format; the real test has two modules in this section, and the second adapts to how you did on the first. You have 32 minutes for 27 questions, each built on its own short passage. The questions run in the real order: craft and structure, information and ideas, standard English conventions, then expression of ideas.
Exam mode: timed, answers at the end, like the real test. Practice mode: untimed, the answer and explanation after each question.
What is in this test
| Multiple choice, one answer | 27 questions | instant marking |
Covers: craft and structure (8) · information and ideas (7) · standard english conventions (7) · expression of ideas (5)
A sample question
The papers of a nineteenth-century merchant show that he recorded the price of cotton every week from 1850 to 1858. The entries stop abruptly in March 1859, the same month in which his account books show that he sold his last cotton warehouse. Historians studying the papers have concluded that ______ Which choice most logically completes the text?
- the merchant probably stopped tracking cotton prices because he had left the cotton trade.
- cotton prices did not change at all after 1859.
- the merchant's warehouse was destroyed in March 1859.
- the merchant kept a second record of cotton prices that has been lost.
Marked when you take the test; the explanation appears in your review.