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SAT practice module 15: Reading and Writing
This is a harder Reading and Writing module, set at the level of the hardest second module on the adaptive digital SAT, the one a strong first module leads to. You have 32 minutes for 27 questions, each built on its own short passage, in the real order: craft and structure, information and ideas, standard English conventions, then expression of ideas. Passages include Jane Austen, Shakespeare, continental drift and Halley's comet. The SAT reports a scaled score rather than a pass or fail result, so no pass mark is set here.
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
Covers: craft and structure (8) · information and ideas (7) · standard english conventions (7) · expression of ideas (5)
A sample question
Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare, first published in 1609, begins by comparing the person it addresses to a summer's day. A student claims that the speaker presents the poem itself as the means by which this person's beauty will be preserved. Which quotation from the poem most effectively illustrates the student's claim?
- 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? / Thou art more lovely and more temperate:'
- 'Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, / And summer's lease hath all too short a date:'
- 'So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, / So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.'
- 'Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, / And often is his gold complexion dimm'd,'
Marked when you take the test; the explanation appears in your review.