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Scholar Tests · Set 1

ISEE practice test, Grade 11

Name ______________________ Date ____________

Verbal Reasoning

Circle the letter of the best answer. About 5 minutes.

  1. 1.

    INUNDATE

    Which word means most nearly the same as the word in capital letters?

    1. Adrain
    2. Bimitate
    3. Cdecorate
    4. Dflood
  2. 2.

    VACILLATE

    Which word means most nearly the same as the word in capital letters?

    1. Avaccinate
    2. Bwaver
    3. Cdecorate
    4. Dborrow
  3. 3.

    The treaty was meant to ______ tensions between the two countries, but it only ______ them.

    Which pair of words best completes the sentence?

    1. Araise . . . soothed
    2. Brecord . . . listed
    3. Cease . . . inflamed
    4. Dease . . . calmed
  4. 4.

    The once ______ factory town has emptied since the last mill closed twenty years ago.

    Which word best completes the sentence?

    1. Aquiet
    2. Bthriving
    3. Cdeserted
    4. Dstruggling
  5. 5.

    Rising sea levels pose an ______ threat to the island, which sits barely a yard above the tide.

    Which word best completes the sentence?

    1. Adistant
    2. Bimaginary
    3. Cimminent
    4. Dminor
  6. 6.

    ZEALOUS

    Which word means most nearly the same as the word in capital letters?

    1. Aeager
    2. Bapathetic
    3. Cjealous
    4. Dwealthy
  7. 7.

    Her argument was so ______ that even those who disagreed admitted it was well made.

    Which word best completes the sentence?

    1. Acareless
    2. Bflimsy
    3. Cconfused
    4. Dcompelling
  8. 8.

    FASTIDIOUS

    Which word means most nearly the same as the word in capital letters?

    1. Ahungry
    2. Bcareless
    3. Cfussy
    4. Dfast
  9. 9.

    VENERATE

    Which word means most nearly the same as the word in capital letters?

    1. Arevere
    2. Bimitate
    3. Cscorn
    4. Dabandon
  10. 10.

    The village, ______ for most of the year, becomes ______ every August when the festival arrives.

    Which pair of words best completes the sentence?

    1. Abusy . . . empty
    2. Bbusy . . . crowded
    3. Ccold . . . colder
    4. Dquiet . . . crowded

Quantitative Reasoning

Circle the letter of the best answer. About 9 minutes.

  1. 1.

    The same whole number is added to the top and to the bottom of 1/11. The fraction this makes is exactly 1/3. What number was added?

    1. A4
    2. B6
    3. C3
    4. D10
  2. 2.

    4x − 7 = 33
    Column A: x
    Column B: 10

    Compare the quantity in Column A with the quantity in Column B.

    1. AColumn A is greater.
    2. BColumn B is greater.
    3. CThe two quantities are equal.
    4. DIt cannot be decided from the information given.
  3. 3.

    n is the least of three consecutive odd integers. Which expression is the sum of the three odd integers?

    1. An + 6
    2. B3n
    3. C3n + 6
    4. D3n + 3
  4. 4.

    6 notebooks and 2 markers cost $62. 1 notebook and 2 markers cost $27. What does one marker cost?

    1. A$35
    2. B$9
    3. C$10
    4. D$7
  5. 5.

    Lucas is now 3 times as old as Chloe. In 9 years Lucas will be 2 times as old as Chloe. How old is Lucas now?

    1. A28
    2. B18
    3. C27
    4. D36
  6. 6.

    How many positive factors of 72 are even numbers?

    1. A9
    2. B8
    3. C3
    4. D12
  7. 7.

    A bag holds 5 red marbles and 6 blue marbles. One marble is taken at random.
    Column A: The probability that the marble is red
    Column B: 1/2

    Compare the quantity in Column A with the quantity in Column B.

    1. AColumn A is greater.
    2. BColumn B is greater.
    3. CThe two quantities are equal.
    4. DIt cannot be decided from the information given.
  8. 8.

    When a number is multiplied by 8, the answer is the same as multiplying that number by 6 and then adding 44. What is the number?

    1. A7
    2. B24
    3. C6
    4. D22
  9. 9.

    A right triangle has legs of length 3 and 4.
    Column A: The length of the hypotenuse
    Column B: 4

    Compare the quantity in Column A with the quantity in Column B.

    1. AColumn A is greater.
    2. BColumn B is greater.
    3. CThe two quantities are equal.
    4. DIt cannot be decided from the information given.
  10. 10.

    Column A: |−12 − (−9)|
    Column B: |−12| − |−9|

    Compare the quantity in Column A with the quantity in Column B.

    1. AColumn A is greater.
    2. BColumn B is greater.
    3. CThe two quantities are equal.
    4. DIt cannot be decided from the information given.

Reading Comprehension

Circle the letter of the best answer. About 10 minutes.

  1. Ice-Out

    All winter the lake kept its one opinion, a white sentence stretched from shore to shore that no one bothered to argue with. We walked on it. We drilled small doubts in it and fished them for perch, and it held. My brother and I had a winter like that: a single hard surface over everything, words we stepped around, a door we closed so gently it was almost polite. Then March, and the lake began to talk. At night it groaned like a ship's old timber; by day long seams of pewter opened and the wind leaned on them until they gave. Nobody announced it. One morning the open water was simply there, dark and moving, full of the sky, and a pair of ducks floated where we had stood. He called that afternoon about nothing, the weather, a game, a borrowed jacket. I listened to the thaw in his voice and said nothing important back, which was, I think, the important thing.

    1.

    Which choice best describes the central idea of the poem?

    1. AThe speaker warns readers about the dangers of thin ice in early spring.
    2. BTwo brothers plan a fishing trip for the day the lake finally thaws.
    3. CThe breakup of the lake's ice mirrors a quiet easing of tension between the speaker and a brother.
    4. DThe speaker regrets spending a winter fishing instead of talking with a brother.
  2. 2.

    According to the poem, what appears on the open water once the ice is gone?

    1. AA borrowed jacket
    2. BA fishing boat
    3. CA school of perch
    4. DA pair of ducks
  3. 3.

    The line "I listened to the thaw in his voice" suggests that the brother

    1. Awas calling to warn the speaker about the melting ice
    2. Bwas angry that the speaker had not called first
    3. Csounded warmer and less guarded than he had during the winter
    4. Dwas speaking quietly because of a poor connection
  4. 4.

    As it is used in the poem, the word "gave" most nearly means

    1. Aproduced a result
    2. Boffered freely
    3. Cput on a show
    4. Dbroke apart
  5. 5.

    The speaker's attitude toward the phone call in the final stanza is best described as

    1. Aquietly grateful
    2. Bdeeply disappointed
    3. Canxiously impatient
    4. Dopenly resentful
  6. 6.

    In the first stanza, describing the ice as "a white sentence" that "no one bothered to argue with" mainly prepares the reader to

    1. Asee the frozen lake as a figure for the unspoken conflict between the siblings
    2. Bexpect a story about a debate held at school
    3. Clearn how to fish safely through a layer of ice
    4. Dnotice that the lake has never frozen over before

  7. Snowfall in the Dark

    Far below the reach of sunlight, in water only a few degrees above freezing, it is always snowing. The flakes are not ice. They are clumps of dead and dying matter: the remains of microscopic algae, the shed shells of tiny animals, waste pellets and grains of dust blown off distant deserts, all bound together by a sticky film of mucus that many sea creatures produce. Ocean scientists call this steady drift "marine snow," and although a single flake is hardly worth noticing, the snowfall as a whole is one of the planet's most important means of moving carbon.

    The process begins at the sunlit surface. Phytoplankton, single-celled organisms that float near the top of the sea, absorb carbon dioxide and use sunlight to turn it into living tissue, much as land plants do. Phytoplankton multiply quickly and die quickly, and they are eaten by small grazing animals that in turn release compact waste pellets. Each of these fragments contains carbon that was, not long before, dissolved in the water and in contact with the air above it.

    Most of that material never travels far. Bacteria break much of it down long before it leaves the upper ocean, releasing the carbon back into the water, where it can return to the atmosphere. But some particles collide, stick together and grow heavy enough to sink faster than they can be consumed. A clump may spend weeks falling, and along the way it serves as a moving meal. Animals of the deep, from small crustaceans to the vampire squid, which gathers drifting particles with long, sticky filaments, depend on this rain from above in a place where almost nothing grows.

    Only a small fraction of the original carbon reaches the deep ocean or the seafloor. That fraction matters enormously, however. Carbon carried into the deep can remain isolated from the atmosphere for centuries, and some of it is buried in sediment for far longer. Scientists refer to this whole chain, from surface growth to deep storage, as the "biological pump." Without it, the amount of carbon dioxide in the air would be considerably higher than it is.

    Researchers study marine snow with sediment traps, which are containers anchored at various depths to catch what falls, and increasingly with cameras and robotic floats that can count particles as they pass. Their measurements remain uncertain, partly because the ocean is vast and the snowfall varies with season and place. A spring bloom of phytoplankton can send down a heavy burst; a nutrient-poor stretch of open ocean may produce only a thin drizzle.

    What the research makes clear is that the deep sea, often imagined as remote and unchanging, is closely tied to the surface world. The carbon in a flake drifting past a vampire squid may have been in the air above the waves only a season earlier.

    7.

    Which choice best states the central idea of the passage?

    1. AThe vampire squid is the most important link in the ocean's carbon cycle.
    2. BSinking particles called marine snow carry carbon from the ocean's surface into the deep, where some of it is stored for a long time.
    3. CMarine snow is made mostly of ice crystals that form when cold surface water sinks toward the seafloor.
    4. DScientists have now measured exactly how much carbon the ocean removes from the air each year.
  8. 8.

    According to the passage, what happens to most of the material that forms near the surface?

    1. AIt is caught in sediment traps anchored at various depths.
    2. BIt is broken down by bacteria before it can sink very far.
    3. CIt forms flakes that fall to the bottom within hours.
    4. DIt sinks to the seafloor and is buried in sediment.
  9. 9.

    Based on the passage, a sediment trap placed beneath a spring phytoplankton bloom would most likely

    1. Ashow that the biological pump stops working in spring
    2. Bcollect the same amount as any other trap at that depth
    3. Ccollect nothing, since all of the material is eaten near the surface
    4. Dcollect more falling material than a trap beneath a nutrient-poor area
  10. 10.

    As it is used in the passage, the word "bound" most nearly means

    1. Aheaded
    2. Blimited
    3. Cleaped
    4. Dheld

Mathematics Achievement

Circle the letter of the best answer. About 9 minutes.

  1. 1.

    Which equation shows a line with a slope of 4 and a y-intercept of 1?

    1. Ay = x + 4
    2. By = 4x + 1
    3. Cy = 4x − 1
    4. Dy = −4x + 1
  2. 2.

    Two fair number cubes, each numbered 1 to 6, are rolled. X is the larger of the two numbers rolled (when both show the same number, X is that number). What is the probability that X equals 3?

    1. A1/12
    2. B5/36
    3. C1/6
    4. D1/36
  3. 3.

    A triangle has vertices at (0, 0), (5, 0), and (5, 5). What is the area of the triangle, in square units?

    1. A15
    2. B10
    3. C25
    4. D12 1/2
  4. 4.

    Maya spent 1/6 of her money on art supplies. Then she spent 2/3 of the money she had left on a bus pass. Then she spent 1/2 of the money she had left on a sandwich. She had $50 left. How much money did Maya have at the start?

    1. A$60
    2. B$360
    3. C$200
    4. D$100
  5. 5.

    How many integers x make |x + 7| < 6 true?

    1. A13
    2. B12
    3. C11
    4. D7
  6. 6.

    Which point on the number line is closest to √13?

    1. APoint A
    2. BPoint B
    3. CPoint C
    4. DPoint D
  7. 7.

    A semicircle has a diameter of 12 centimeters. What is the area of the semicircle, in square centimeters?

    1. A6π
    2. B72π
    3. C18π
    4. D36π
  8. 8.

    Triangle ABC is translated 3 units left and 2 units down. What are the coordinates of the image of point B?

    1. A(−1, 2)
    2. B(−1, −5)
    3. C(−2, −4)
    4. D(4, −4)
  9. 9.

    If x + y = 12 and x − y = 6, what is the value of x² − y²?

    1. A144
    2. B18
    3. C72
    4. D108
  10. 10.

    A group of students answered a survey, and the circle graph shows the results. 200 of the students ride the bus. How many students answered the survey?

    1. A50
    2. B267
    3. C225
    4. D800

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