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SAT Reading and Writing Practice Tests

These Grade 12 English practice tests develop SAT Reading and Writing skills through original passages and questions on information, ideas, craft, structure, grammar, punctuation, transitions, and revision.

Skills covered

  • Identifying central ideas, claims, inferences, evidence, purpose, structure, and relationships among texts
  • Using words in context, interpreting data, evaluating support, and distinguishing precise conclusions from overstatements
  • Applying standard English conventions for sentence boundaries, agreement, pronouns, modifiers, verb forms, and punctuation
  • Choosing transitions, adding relevant sentences, improving organization, adapting to audience, and revising for concision
  • Connecting evidence and reasoning across literary, informational, scientific, historical, and civic contexts

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Read the complete text or sentence before choosing. Eliminate answers that are too broad, unsupported, grammatically incorrect, or unrelated to the stated purpose and context.

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Grade 12 SAT Reading and Writing Practice Tests

Practice Grade 12 English SAT Reading and Writing questions about information and ideas, craft and structure, conventions, transitions, and expression of ideas.

Choose the best answer. Read the full context, use the evidence provided, and select the choice that is most accurate, grammatical, and effective.

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1. QuestionMultiple choice

Choose the option that completes the sentence correctly: The collection of oral histories ___ researchers a fuller view of the neighborhood’s past.

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: A

The correct answer is gives.

  1. Identify the SAT skill: Determine whether the question tests information and ideas, craft and structure, standard English conventions, or expression of ideas.
  2. Use the evidence: The singular subject collection takes the singular verb gives.
  3. Check the answer in context: The correct answer is gives.

The singular subject collection takes the singular verb gives.

2. QuestionMultiple choice

Choose the option that correctly completes the text: The telescope produced a detailed image of the nebula; ___, the researchers could identify previously unseen structures.

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: B

The correct answer is as a result.

  1. Identify the SAT skill: Determine whether the question tests information and ideas, craft and structure, standard English conventions, or expression of ideas.
  2. Use the evidence: As a result expresses the cause-and-effect relationship between the detailed image and the identification of structures.
  3. Check the answer in context: The correct answer is as a result.

As a result expresses the cause-and-effect relationship between the detailed image and the identification of structures.

3. QuestionMultiple choice

Choose the option with correct punctuation: The survey included three groups ___ students, teachers, and school counselors.

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: C

The correct answer is including.

  1. Identify the SAT skill: Determine whether the question tests information and ideas, craft and structure, standard English conventions, or expression of ideas.
  2. Use the evidence: Including introduces the list smoothly after the complete statement; a colon would not fit this sentence structure as written.
  3. Check the answer in context: The correct answer is including.

Including introduces the list smoothly after the complete statement; a colon would not fit this sentence structure as written.

4. QuestionMultiple choice

Choose the option that completes the sentence correctly: The researcher reviewed the records carefully ___ she wanted to avoid overlooking a contradictory detail.

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: D

The correct answer is because.

  1. Identify the SAT skill: Determine whether the question tests information and ideas, craft and structure, standard English conventions, or expression of ideas.
  2. Use the evidence: Because introduces the dependent reason clause; no comma is needed when it follows the main clause closely.
  3. Check the answer in context: The correct answer is because.

Because introduces the dependent reason clause; no comma is needed when it follows the main clause closely.

5. QuestionMultiple choice

Choose the option that completes the sentence correctly: When the musicians revised ___ arrangement, the final performance became more cohesive.

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: A

The correct answer is their.

  1. Identify the SAT skill: Determine whether the question tests information and ideas, craft and structure, standard English conventions, or expression of ideas.
  2. Use the evidence: Their is the possessive pronoun that refers to the plural musicians.
  3. Check the answer in context: The correct answer is their.

Their is the possessive pronoun that refers to the plural musicians.

6. QuestionMultiple choice

Choose the option that completes the sentence correctly: Walking through the archive, the student noticed that ___ impressed her most was the handwritten map.

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: B

The correct answer is what.

  1. Identify the SAT skill: Determine whether the question tests information and ideas, craft and structure, standard English conventions, or expression of ideas.
  2. Use the evidence: What introduces the noun clause functioning as the object of noticed, while the student is the subject of walking and noticed.
  3. Check the answer in context: The correct answer is what.

What introduces the noun clause functioning as the object of noticed, while the student is the subject of walking and noticed.

7. QuestionMultiple choice

Choose the option that completes the sentence correctly: By the time the meeting began, the committee ___ the revised proposal.

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: C

The correct answer is had reviewed.

  1. Identify the SAT skill: Determine whether the question tests information and ideas, craft and structure, standard English conventions, or expression of ideas.
  2. Use the evidence: The past perfect had reviewed shows that the review occurred before another past event, the meeting.
  3. Check the answer in context: The correct answer is had reviewed.

The past perfect had reviewed shows that the review occurred before another past event, the meeting.

8. QuestionMultiple choice

Choose the option that completes the sentence correctly: The presentation was both informative ___ engaging.

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: D

The correct answer is and.

  1. Identify the SAT skill: Determine whether the question tests information and ideas, craft and structure, standard English conventions, or expression of ideas.
  2. Use the evidence: And correctly joins the two parallel adjectives informative and engaging.
  3. Check the answer in context: The correct answer is and.

And correctly joins the two parallel adjectives informative and engaging.

9. QuestionMultiple choice

Choose the option that completes the sentence correctly: The two editors compared the draft with ___ notes before approving it.

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: A

The correct answer is their.

  1. Identify the SAT skill: Determine whether the question tests information and ideas, craft and structure, standard English conventions, or expression of ideas.
  2. Use the evidence: Their is the possessive form referring to the two editors.
  3. Check the answer in context: The correct answer is their.

Their is the possessive form referring to the two editors.

10. QuestionMultiple choice

Choose the option that completes the sentence correctly: The evidence was limited. ___, the researchers described the result as promising rather than conclusive.

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: B

The correct answer is Therefore.

  1. Identify the SAT skill: Determine whether the question tests information and ideas, craft and structure, standard English conventions, or expression of ideas.
  2. Use the evidence: Therefore shows that the cautious description follows logically from the limited evidence.
  3. Check the answer in context: The correct answer is Therefore.

Therefore shows that the cautious description follows logically from the limited evidence.

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