BY Original Practice Test 1
| Verbal Reasoning | 34 questions | 20 minutes |
| Quantitative Reasoning | 38 questions | 35 minutes |
| Reading Comprehension | 25 questions | 25 minutes |
| Mathematics Achievement | 30 questions | 30 minutes |
| Essay | Unscored | 30 minutes |
Verbal Reasoning · 20 minutes · 34 questions
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HUMBLE:
VACANT:
ADJUSTMENT:
HASTY:
SCARCE:
FRAGILE:
PLUMMET:
AJAR:
CONCEAL:
BLUNT:
STERN:
NIMBLE:
DILIGENT:
MEEK:
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DEFY:
WEARY:
Before the concert began, the auditorium buzzed with a ------ jumble of instruments tuning, chairs scraping, and audience members murmuring all at once.
The morning fog ------ as soon as the bright sun rose above the hills, leaving the valley clear and easy to see.
The two neighbors argued over the fence for months, but a patient mediator finally helped them ------ a fair agreement both sides could accept.
Because the coach believed daily practice ------ excellent performance, she required the team to run drills every single afternoon.
The prolonged drought ------ the region's crops, leaving farmers with fields of dry, brittle stalks instead of a healthy harvest.
The trail near the summit looked ------ on the map, but hikers found it required careful footing over loose, jagged rocks.
After decades of nobody visiting, the attic was filled with ------ furniture covered in thick layers of dust and cobwebs.
The engineer designed the new bridge to ------ heavy loads of traffic without bending or cracking under pressure.
Because the gardener forgot to water the tomato plants for two weeks, the leaves began to ------ under the hot summer sun.
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Grandmother's stories about her childhood seemed ------, yet historians confirmed that many of the strange details were completely true.
The city's new recycling program used colorful posters and small prizes to ------ residents into sorting their bottles and cans instead of throwing them in the trash.
By noon, the desert became so ------ that even the lizards sought shelter beneath the few available rocks.
The farmers' market on Saturday mornings was always ------, with vendors calling out prices and shoppers weaving between crowded stalls.
Because the days grow shorter and food becomes scarce in autumn, many birds ------ to warmer regions where they can find enough to eat.
Ms. Alvarez's voice was usually ------, but during the fire drill she shouted loud instructions to guide everyone outside safely.
Although Marcus felt nervous about speaking in front of the class, he ------ his fear and delivered a confident presentation.
Because the professor spoke in a flat, ------ tone for the entire lecture, several students found it difficult to stay awake.
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Quantitative Reasoning · 35 minutes · 38 questions
A cookie recipe calls for 12 ounces of butter to make 1 batch. A baker wants to make 2 1/2 batches. How many total ounces of butter are needed?
The temperature at 7 A.M. was 58 degrees Fahrenheit. By noon, the temperature had risen 17 degrees. By evening, it had dropped 9 degrees from the noon temperature. What was the temperature in the evening?
Maria is building a fence around her garden. The total length of the fence is 12 yards. A wooden gate that is 2 feet 6 inches wide will be part of the fence. How many feet of the fence will NOT be the gate?
A pitcher contains 2.5 liters of lemonade. Each glass holds 275 milliliters. How many full glasses can be poured from the pitcher?
A rectangular classroom bulletin board is 15 feet long and 9 feet wide. Mr. Lopez wants to put a ribbon border around the entire edge of the board. How many yards of ribbon does he need?
A garden hose is 27 feet long. Ben needs a hose that reaches at least 9 yards from the faucet to his garden. Is his 27-foot hose long enough?
A pitcher contains 3 quarts of lemonade. Ben pours out 5 cups to serve his friends. How many quarts of lemonade remain in the pitcher? (4 cups = 1 quart)
A ribbon is 5 yards long. It is cut into pieces that are each 1 foot 6 inches long. How many full pieces can be cut from the ribbon?
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A jacket costs $60. The store is having a sale of 20% off. What is the sale price of the jacket?
Ben has 3 quarters. What fraction of a dollar does he have?
A ribbon is 7/8 of a yard long. Marcus cuts off 1/4 of a yard to use for a bow. How much ribbon is left?
A movie is 3/4 of an hour long. How many minutes long is the movie?
An eraser costs $6.85. Diego pays with a $10 bill. How much change should he receive?
There are 24 students in Ms. Lee's class. Exactly 1/3 of the students play soccer after school. How many students play soccer?
A book costs $50. Next month, the price will increase by 10%. What will the new price of the book be?
A pizza is cut into 8 equal slices. Ana eats 3 slices and her brother Ben eats 2 slices. What fraction of the pizza is left?
The Venn diagram shows how many students enjoy Reading and Drawing as hobbies. How many students in all enjoy Reading, Drawing, or both?
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The Venn diagram shows the sports played by students in a class. How many students play BOTH Soccer and Basketball?
The pictograph shows the number of pieces of fruit sold at a fruit stand on Saturday. Each symbol stands for 5 pieces of fruit. How many bananas and oranges were sold combined?
The table shows how students chose to spend recess. How many students in all were surveyed?
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The table shows the results of a survey asking students which pet they like best. How many students voted for Dog?
The pictograph shows the number of books each student read this summer. Each symbol stands for 2 books. How many books did Cy read?
The Venn diagram shows which instruments students play: Piano, Guitar, and Violin. How many students play Guitar in total (including students who also play other instruments)?
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The table shows Jake's trading card collection. If Jake picks one card at random from his collection, what is the probability that it is a Space card?
Using the digits 4, 7, and 2 each exactly once, Maria writes the largest possible 3-digit number and the smallest possible 3-digit number. What is the difference between her two numbers?
A school is sending 245 students on a field trip. Each bus holds 40 students. What is the minimum number of buses needed so that every student has a seat?
A bakery bakes 18 trays of cookies with 24 cookies on each tray. The bakery sells cookies throughout the day until 96 cookies remain. The remaining cookies are packed into boxes of 8. How many boxes are needed to pack all the remaining cookies?
A city bus leaves a stop every 15 minutes, starting at 8:00 A.M. Which of the following times will the bus be at the stop?
A classroom has a bag of stickers that the teacher wants to split evenly among 6 table groups, with none left over. Which number of stickers could be in the bag?
A field trip costs $45 per person. There are 23 students and 4 adult chaperones going on the trip. What is the total cost of the trip?
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Each of 5 classrooms uses about 812 sheets of paper in a month. Which is the BEST estimate of the total number of sheets used by all 5 classrooms in one month?
A bakery has 612 rolls. After selling 195 of them, about how many rolls remain? Round each number to the nearest hundred before subtracting to find the best estimate.
To find how many cups of flour a recipe needs, Jordan wrote the expression 6 + 3 x (8 - 5). What value does this expression represent?
Mia is thinking of two odd numbers. If she adds them together, what kind of number will the sum always be?
A submarine is at a depth of 120 feet below sea level, written as -120 feet. The submarine then rises 45 feet. What is its new depth, written as a negative number?
A number is even. If that even number is multiplied by any whole number, what can you say about the product?
A number is a multiple of both 4 and 6, and it is between 30 and 45. What is the number?
Which list shows these numbers ordered from least to greatest: 0.6, 0.58, 0.65, 0.508?
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Reading Comprehension · 25 minutes · 25 questions
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Which sentence best states the main idea of the story?
According to the passage, why did Mortimer refuse to move when Pip warned him?
Why most likely did Pip say nothing about her warning at dawn?
In line 27, the word "scrambled" most nearly means
Which pair of words best describes the tone of the story's final paragraph?
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What is the main idea of the passage?
Why would a bat most likely have trouble hunting if it lost its hearing?
According to the passage, what happens to a bat's calls when it spots a meal?
In line 4, the word "rely" most nearly means
Why does the author use the word "contest" in the last paragraph?
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What is the main idea of the passage?
It can be inferred that Central Pacific crews moved slowly in the mountains because
Why does the author begin the passage by describing travel before 1869?
According to the passage, where did the two railroad lines meet?
In line 22, the word "brutal" most nearly means
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What is the main idea of the story?
What does Carmen's reply to Mateo, "If I stop looking, it will feel as though I have given up," show about her?
According to the passage, where was Pepper hiding?
Why does the author include the two times Carmen thinks she sees a white ear?
The author's phrase "her stomach felt tight" mainly shows that Carmen is
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What is the main idea of the passage?
If a pencil maker wanted darker marks, the maker would most likely
According to the passage, what is pencil "lead" made from?
How is the passage mainly organized?
In line 27, the word "slices" most nearly means
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Mathematics Achievement · 30 minutes · 30 questions
A rectangular picture frame is 8 centimeters long and 5 centimeters wide. What is the perimeter of the frame?
A spool contains 3.46 meters of ribbon. How many centimeters of ribbon are on the spool?
A woodworker is cutting a shelf board for a new classroom bookcase. The board is 3.5 feet long, but the building plans list every length in inches. How many inches are in 3.5 feet?
A rectangular box is 4 units long, 3 units wide, and 2 units tall. What is the volume of the box?
At a school picnic, a parent fills a large cooler with lemonade for the players. The cooler holds 3 gallons 2 quarts of lemonade. How many quarts are equal to that amount of lemonade?
What is 234 x 6?
What is 8,203 - 4,567?
In a number game, each player must pick a card whose number can be divided evenly by 9, with no remainder. Which of these numbers is divisible by 9?
How many whole-number factors does 36 have?
A store has 15 boxes of pencils. Each box holds 24 pencils. How many pencils does the store have in total?
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Write 3/4 as a decimal.
What is 20% of 45?
What is 75% of 24?
Write 3/5 as a percent.
In a class survey, 45% of the students chose soccer as their favorite sport. Write 45% as a fraction in simplest form.
What is 4 - 9?
What is -8 + 5?
What is 6 + 4 x 3?
Two lights flash together at the start of a show. One flashes every 4 seconds and the other every 6 seconds. What is the least common multiple (LCM) of 4 and 6?
What is 5^2 (5 to the second power)?
The bar graph shows five students' scores on a math quiz. What is the range of the scores?
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According to the table, how many books were checked out by 4th grade?
According to the bar graph, how many more minutes did Noah read than Olivia?
The bar graph shows the number of pencils in six students' desks. What is the mode of this data?
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The bar graph shows how students get to school. What is the total number of students shown in the graph?
A rectangular box has a length of 4 inches, a width of 3 inches, and a height of 2 inches. What is the volume of the box?
A designer cuts a rectangular tile that is longer than it is wide, so it is not a square. How many lines of symmetry does the tile have?
In woodshop, a student opens the two parts of a hinge so they form an angle that measures 158 degrees. Based on its measure, what type of angle is it?
A rectangle has an area of 48 square inches and a width of 6 inches. What is the length of the rectangle?
The three angles inside a triangle always add up to 180 degrees. A triangle has two angles that measure 50 degrees and 70 degrees. What is the measure of the third angle?
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Essay · 30 minutes · unscored
If you could learn to do any new skill, what would it be and why?
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