SSAT practice, Grade 6

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SSAT practice test, Grade 6

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Quantitative

Circle the letter of the best answer. About 12 minutes.

  1. 1.

    The table shows how the students in two classes get to school. Some numbers are missing. Each row and each column adds up to its total. What number belongs in the cell marked ? in the table?

    1. A24
    2. B46
    3. C7
    4. D55
    5. E17
  2. 2.

    20% of the money in a tin is $8.00. How much money is in the tin altogether?

    1. A$800.00
    2. B$40.00
    3. C$4.00
    4. D$1.60
    5. E$32.00
  3. 3.

    The two lines with arrowheads on them are parallel. What is the size of the angle marked with a question mark?

    1. A115°
    2. B25°
    3. C65°
    4. D75°
    5. E130°
  4. 4.

    Chloe is now 3 times as old as Ruby. In 7 years' time Chloe will be 2 times as old as Ruby. How old is Chloe now?

    1. A14
    2. B28
    3. C21
    4. D7
    5. E22
  5. 5.

    What is a sixth of a quarter of 120?

    1. A50
    2. B12
    3. C20
    4. D30
    5. E5
  6. 6.

    A rectangular garden bed is 10 yd long and 7 yd wide. A gravel path 1 yd wide runs all the way around the outside of it. What is the area of the gravel path?

    1. A34 sq yd
    2. B42 sq yd
    3. C108 sq yd
    4. D18 sq yd
    5. E38 sq yd
  7. 7.

    Isla rolls a die 14 times and gets: 1, 6, 2, 2, 1, 5, 1, 2, 5, 6, 3, 2, 4, 2. From these results, what is the experimental probability of rolling a 6?

    1. A1/7
    2. B1/3
    3. C1/14
    4. D1/6
    5. E3/14
  8. 8.

    At 5 am the temperature was −5 °C. By 1 pm it had risen by 8 degrees. Then by 11 pm it had fallen by 6 degrees from there. What was the temperature at 11 pm?

    1. A3 °C
    2. B9 °C
    3. C−7 °C
    4. D−3 °C
    5. E7 °C
  9. 9.

    Tom and Aaron share $120 in the ratio 1 : 2. How much does Tom get?

    1. A$120
    2. B$80
    3. C$60
    4. D$40
    5. E$45
  10. 10.

    Find the value of x.
    9x + 3 = 84

    1. A81
    2. B10
    3. C8
    4. D9
    5. E11

Reading

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

  1. The Map in the Attic

    The box had been sealed with tape so old it had turned the color of tea. Inside, under a stack of yellowed letters, Priya found a folded sheet of heavy paper. When she spread it on the attic floor, her brother Dev leaned in so close that his breath fogged his glasses.

    It was a hand-drawn map of their town, but not the town they knew. The river was there, curving like a question mark, and so was the hill behind the school. But where the shopping center stood now, the map showed an orchard, its trees drawn as tiny careful circles. A dotted line wandered from the orchard to a small square marked "Station."

    "There's no train station here," Dev said.

    "Not anymore," Priya said. She pointed to the corner of the map, where someone had written, in faded ink, Drawn by R. Mehta, age 12.

    Their grandmother's name was Rani Mehta.

    That evening, the two of them sat on either side of Nani's armchair, the map open on her lap. For a long moment she said nothing. Then she traced the dotted line with one finger.

    "Every Saturday," she said, "my father walked me along this path to meet the evening train. He sold apples to the passengers. I drew this map so I would never forget the way." She smiled. "I suppose I did forget, eventually. The station closed, the orchard was sold, and the path became a road."

    Dev looked at the tiny circles of the orchard. "Can we find where the path was?"

    Nani laughed, the first real laugh Priya had heard from her in weeks. "Bring your shoes on Saturday," she said. "I'll show you."

    1.

    What is the passage mainly about?

    1. AA family moves into a house with a messy attic.
    2. BTwo children find an old map that brings back their grandmother's memories.
    3. CTwo children search the town for a hidden treasure.
    4. DA grandmother teaches her grandchildren to draw maps.
    5. EA train station is built where an orchard used to be.
  2. 2.

    According to the map, what stood where the shopping center is now?

    1. AA school
    2. BA river
    3. CA road
    4. DA train station
    5. EAn orchard
  3. 3.

    Why do the children recognize that "R. Mehta" is important?

    1. AIt is the name of the company that built the shopping center.
    2. BIt is the name of the town's first mayor.
    3. CIt matches their grandmother's name, so she drew the map as a girl.
    4. DIt is written on all the letters in the box.
    5. EIt is the name of the train station.
  4. 4.

    In the passage, the word "traced" most nearly means

    1. Asearched for
    2. Bcopied onto new paper
    3. Cfolded neatly
    4. Derased carefully
    5. Efollowed the line of
  5. 5.

    Why does the writer mention that it was "the first real laugh Priya had heard from her in weeks"?

    1. ATo suggest that sharing the map lifts the grandmother's spirits
    2. BTo explain why the map was hidden in the attic
    3. CTo show that Dev made a joke
    4. DTo prove that Priya does not visit her grandmother
    5. ETo show that the grandmother found the story funny

  6. The Ditch That Built a State

    In the early 1800s, moving goods across New York was slow and costly. Wagons bumped along rough roads, and shipping a ton of flour from the Great Lakes region to New York City could take weeks. DeWitt Clinton, who soon became governor, championed a bold solution: dig a canal about 363 miles long, linking Lake Erie at Buffalo to the Hudson River at Albany. From there, boats could float all the way down to New York City.

    Many people thought the idea was ridiculous. Critics called it "Clinton's Ditch." The land rose and fell along the route, and the builders had little formal training in engineering. Yet construction began in 1817, and workers, many of them recent immigrants, dug much of the canal by hand with shovels, axes and horses.

    To carry boats up and down the changing land, builders constructed locks. A lock is a chamber with gates at each end. A boat enters, the gates close, and water is let in or out until the boat is level with the next section of the canal. Then the far gate opens and the boat continues.

    The canal opened in 1825, and it was a dramatic success. Shipping costs fell sharply, and trips that once took weeks took days. Farmers in the Midwest could sell their crops in the East, and goods from the East flowed west. New York City grew into the busiest port in the country, and towns sprang up along the canal's banks.

    The ditch that critics laughed at helped make New York the "Empire State."

    6.

    What is the passage mainly about?

    1. AThe building of the Erie Canal and how it changed trade
    2. BThe life of Governor DeWitt Clinton
    3. CHow locks are used on rivers around the world
    4. DWhy farmers moved from New York to the Midwest
    5. EThe history of New York City's harbor
  7. 7.

    According to the passage, what does a lock do?

    1. AIt keeps boats from leaving the canal at night.
    2. BIt measures how much cargo a boat carries.
    3. CIt blocks the canal during storms.
    4. DIt raises or lowers a boat to the level of the next section of the canal.
    5. EIt stores water for farmers.
  8. 8.

    Why did critics call the project "Clinton's Ditch"?

    1. AThey thought the plan was foolish and would fail.
    2. BClinton wanted the canal to be a secret.
    3. CThe canal was named after Clinton by law.
    4. DClinton dug the canal himself.
    5. EThe canal was very shallow.
  9. 9.

    As used in the passage, the word "dramatic" most nearly means

    1. Aslow and gradual
    2. Bloud and noisy
    3. Csad and serious
    4. Dstriking and large
    5. Erelated to the theater
  10. 10.

    How does the passage mostly develop its account of the canal?

    1. AIt tells the story from the point of view of a boat.
    2. BIt compares the canal with other canals.
    3. CIt describes a problem, the solution, and the results.
    4. DIt lists the canal's locks from east to west.
    5. EIt argues against building the canal.

Verbal

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

  1. 1.

    OBSOLETE

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

    1. Ahidden
    2. Boutdated
    3. Cbroken
    4. Dexpensive
    5. Ecurrent
  2. 2.

    Archive is to documents as aquarium is to

    1. Awater
    2. Bocean
    3. Cfish
    4. Dmuseum
    5. Etank
  3. 3.

    ACCLAIM

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

    1. Acriticism
    2. Bpraise
    3. Cfame
    4. Dclaim
    5. Eclimate
  4. 4.

    Thermometer is to temperature as scale is to

    1. Aruler
    2. Blength
    3. Cheavy
    4. Dweight
    5. Ekitchen
  5. 5.

    JEOPARDY

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

    1. Ajoy
    2. Bjourney
    3. Cdanger
    4. Dsafety
    5. Econtest
  6. 6.

    TRANQUIL

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

    1. Achilly
    2. Bdistant
    3. Cchaotic
    4. Dslow
    5. Epeaceful
  7. 7.

    Abolish is to law as veto is to

    1. Acongress
    2. Bcourt
    3. Cvote
    4. Dbill
    5. Epresident
  8. 8.

    Fragile is to glass as elastic is to

    1. Astring
    2. Brubber band
    3. Cpaper clip
    4. Dbrick
    5. Estretch
  9. 9.

    PENSIVE

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

    1. Apleasant
    2. Bcarefree
    3. Csad
    4. Dexpensive
    5. Ethoughtful
  10. 10.

    Famished is to eat as parched is to

    1. Adry
    2. Bthirst
    3. Csleep
    4. Dwater
    5. Edrink

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