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Q: Is the SAT question bank free?

The questions on this page are free, with no account. In the app, every free account gets one Reading, one Writing and one Math lesson with practice questions. A plan opens every question type at every level.

Q: Are these real SAT questions?

No. They are original questions written by SAT experts to match the real question types, wording and difficulty. For official questions, use the College Board question bank and the official Bluebook practice tests.

Q: How is the question bank organized?

Like the test itself: by the four Reading and Writing domains and the four Math domains, then by question type and level. Your accuracy is tracked for every type, so you can see which ones cost you points.

Q: How hard are the sample questions?

The six questions on this page are medium. In the app each type also has easy and hard sets. Hard sets copy the traps of the harder Module 2.

Q: Should I use a question bank or full mock tests?

Both, in that order. Drill your weak types in the bank, then check your score with a full adaptive mock test every two or three weeks. The first mock test is free.

Try 6 questions from the bank, scored on the spot with a full explanation. The rest are in the app, sorted by question type and level.

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Three Reading and Writing, three Math. Pick an answer to see if you are right and why: each wrong choice is a trap the real test uses, and the explanation names it.

Reading and Writing

Craft and Structure

Vocabulary Fill

MediumFree in the app

When several cities began charging drivers a fee to enter their downtown districts, many shop owners predicted that sales would suffer. Urban planner Dao Minh Chau contends, however, that such fees do not ______ downtown commerce. Rather, in the three cities she studied, retail sales rose after the charges took effect, as streets less clogged with cars drew more shoppers on foot.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

Answer and explanation

Correct answer: B

Choice B is the best answer because it most logically completes the text's discussion of Chau's claim about downtown entry fees. In this context, "impede" means to hinder or hold back. The text says that shop owners predicted that sales would suffer, and "however" signals that Chau disagrees. The next sentence, introduced by "Rather," reports that retail sales rose after the charges took effect. This context indicates that, in Chau's view, the fees do not hold commerce back. Choice A is incorrect because "stimulate" means to encourage or increase; saying that the fees do not stimulate commerce would conflict with the following statement that sales rose, and it wouldn't oppose the shop owners' prediction. Choice C is incorrect because "regulate" means to control by rules; the text concerns whether the fees hurt sales, not whether they govern how business is conducted. Choice D is incorrect because "reflect" means to mirror or indicate, and it wouldn't make sense to say that the fees do not mirror commerce and then to offer rising sales as the alternative.

Practice Vocabulary Fill

Expression of Ideas

Transitions

Medium

When planners in a coastal city converted curbside parking on six streets into protected bicycle lanes, their aim was to make cycling safer. Researcher Tomasz Wieliczko reports that injuries to cyclists on those streets fell by nearly half within two years. ______ sales at shops along those streets rose over the same period, a benefit that business owners who had opposed the project had not expected.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

Answer and explanation

Correct answer: B

Choice B is the best answer because "Furthermore" logically signals that the information in this sentence (sales at shops along the converted streets rose) adds to the information in the previous sentence about a benefit of the bicycle lanes, the drop in injuries to cyclists. Choice A is incorrect because "For instance" illogically signals that the rise in shop sales is an example of the decline in cyclists' injuries. Choice C is incorrect because "In other words" illogically signals that this sentence restates the information about injuries; instead, it reports a different outcome. Choice D is incorrect because "Nevertheless" illogically signals that the rise in sales occurred in spite of the decline in injuries; instead, both are positive outcomes of the same change.

Practice Transitions

Standard English Conventions

Joining Sentences

MediumFree in the app

The Cerro Alto cooperative, established in 2008 in Guatemala's western highlands, now includes more than 200 farming families. Its members grow coffee, maize, black beans, and ______ they sell most of each harvest directly to buyers in nearby towns.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

Answer and explanation

Correct answer: C

Choice C is the best answer. The convention being tested is the coordination of main clauses within a sentence. This choice correctly uses a comma and the coordinating conjunction "and" to join the first main clause ("Its members grow coffee, maize, black beans, and cardamom") and the second main clause ("they sell most of each harvest directly to buyers in nearby towns"). The "and" before "cardamom" only closes the series of crops, so a comma and a second "and" are needed to join the two clauses. Choice A is incorrect because it results in a run-on sentence: the two main clauses are fused without punctuation or a conjunction. Choice B is incorrect because it results in a comma splice: without a conjunction following it, a comma can't be used in this way to join two main clauses. Choice D is incorrect because without a comma preceding it, the conjunction "and" can't be used in this way to join two main clauses: when two longer main clauses such as these are coordinated, it's conventional to use a comma before the coordinating conjunction.

Practice Joining Sentences

Math

Algebra

Linear Equations

MediumFree in the app

A 3D printer takes 48 minutes, including warm-up, to print the first 4 parts of a batch and 8 minutes to print each additional part. One batch took 128 minutes to print. How many parts were in the batch?

Answer and explanation

Correct answer: C

Choice C is correct. Let $\displaystyle n$ be the number of parts in the batch. The first 4 parts take 48 minutes, and the remaining $\displaystyle n - 4$ parts take 8 minutes each, so $\displaystyle 48 + 8(n - 4) = 128$ . Subtracting 48 from both sides gives $\displaystyle 8(n - 4) = 80$ , so $\displaystyle n - 4 = 10$ and $\displaystyle n = 14$ . Choice A is incorrect and may result from using $\displaystyle n + 4$ instead of $\displaystyle n - 4$ for the number of additional parts. Choice B is incorrect. This is the number of additional parts, not the total number of parts in the batch. Choice D is incorrect and may result from dividing 128 by 8, which ignores that the first 4 parts take 48 minutes.

Practice Linear Equations

Advanced Math

Quadratic Equations

Medium

$\displaystyle 2x^2 - 8x + 3 = 0$

What is one of the solutions to the given equation?

Answer and explanation

Correct answer: D

Choice D is correct. By the quadratic formula, the solutions to an equation of the form $\displaystyle ax^2 + bx + c = 0$ are $\displaystyle x = \frac{-b \pm \sqrt{b^2 - 4ac}}{2a}$ . Substituting 2 for $\displaystyle a$ , $\displaystyle -8$ for $\displaystyle b$ , and 3 for $\displaystyle c$ yields $\displaystyle x = \frac{8 \pm \sqrt{64 - 24}}{4} = \frac{8 \pm \sqrt{40}}{4}$ . Since $\displaystyle \sqrt{40} = 2\sqrt{10}$ , this is equivalent to $\displaystyle x = \frac{4 \pm \sqrt{10}}{2}$ . Therefore, one of the solutions to the given equation is $\displaystyle \frac{4 + \sqrt{10}}{2}$ . Choice A is incorrect and may result from using $\displaystyle b$ rather than $\displaystyle -b$ in the numerator. Choice B is incorrect and may result from computing $\displaystyle b^2 + 4ac$ rather than $\displaystyle b^2 - 4ac$ . Choice C is incorrect and may result from dividing by 2 rather than by $\displaystyle 2a$ .

Practice Quadratic Equations

Problem-Solving and Data Analysis

Scatterplots

Medium

The table shows the trunk circumference $\displaystyle x$ , in inches, and the height $\displaystyle y$ , in feet, of 7 trees.

x	y
8	39
10	41
12	49
14	53
16	59
18	61
20	69

The line of best fit for the data is $\displaystyle y = 2.5x + 18$ . For how many of these trees is the actual height less than the height predicted by the line of best fit?

Answer and explanation

Correct answer: A

Choice A is correct. For circumferences of 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, and 20 inches, the line of best fit predicts heights of 38, 43, 48, 53, 58, 63, and 68 feet. The actual height is less than the predicted height only for the trees with circumferences of 10 inches ( $\displaystyle 41 < 43$ ) and 18 inches ( $\displaystyle 61 < 63$ ), so there are 2 such trees. Choice B is incorrect and may result from also counting the tree with a circumference of 14 inches, whose actual height is equal to its predicted height. Choice C is incorrect because 4 is the number of trees whose actual height is greater than the predicted height. Choice D is incorrect because 5 is the number of trees whose actual height is not less than the predicted height.

Practice Scatterplots

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Sorted by	Domain, skill and difficulty	Domain, question type and level
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Is the SAT question bank free?

The questions on this page are free, with no account. In the app, every free account gets one Reading, one Writing and one Math lesson with practice questions. A plan opens every question type at every level.

Are these real SAT questions?

No. They are original questions written by SAT experts to match the real question types, wording and difficulty. For official questions, use the College Board question bank and the official Bluebook practice tests.

How is the question bank organized?

Like the test itself: by the four Reading and Writing domains and the four Math domains, then by question type and level. Your accuracy is tracked for every type, so you can see which ones cost you points.

How hard are the sample questions?

The six questions on this page are medium. In the app each type also has easy and hard sets. Hard sets copy the traps of the harder Module 2.

Should I use a question bank or full mock tests?

Both, in that order. Drill your weak types in the bank, then check your score with a full adaptive mock test every two or three weeks. The first mock test is free. Take the free mock test.

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