SAT Critical Reading Practice

Critical Reading Practice Questions

by Kelly Roell
Kelly Roell is the author of "Ace the ACT. " She has a master's degree in secondary English education and has worked as a high school English teacher.
Updated January 13, 2018

This information refers to the current SAT which will be in use until January 2016, not the redesigned SAT, which will be administered in March 2016.

SAT Critical Reading Practice Basics

Of the three SAT sections, Mathematics, Critical Reading, and Writing, you can improve your score the most by doing lots of Critical Reading practice! Sentence completion and passage-based reading questions are easier to score high on when you have some practice under your belt. So give these SAT Critical Reading practice quizzes a try to determine where you most need to improve!

SAT Sentence Completion Practice

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So, you may be asking yourself, " Sentence completions are just one of the two types of questions on the SAT Critical Reading section, so it's important to familiarize yourself with what one really is before plunging into the practice. If you're ready, take a look at the quizzes and other sentence completion practice tests below.

SAT Passage-Based Reading Practice

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Again, if you're unsure what a passage-based reading question looks like, then check it out before trying the quiz. If you're ready to go, then check out the reading comprehension questions below for practice with inferences, main idea, vocab in context and other passage-based reading questions.