NF3P0001
PSAT/NMSQT®
Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test
Practice
Test#1 t:J
Make time to take the practice test.
It is one of the best ways to get ready
for the PSAT/NMSQT®.
After you have taken the practice test, score it
right away at collegeboard.org/psatscoring.
This version of the PSAT/NMSQT Practice Test is for students who will be taking
the digital PSAT/NMSQT in nondigital format.
6UPL01
,
,Test begins on the next page.
, Module
1
Reading and Writing
33 QUESTIONS
The questions in this section address a number of important reading and writing skills. Each
question includes one or more passages, which may include a table or graph. Read each passage
and question carefully, and then choose the best answer to the question based on the passage(s).
All questions in this section are multiple-choice with four answer choices. Each question has a
single best answer.
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The following text is adapted from Amy Lowell’s In the 1960s, Sam Gilliam, a Black painter from the
1912 poem “Summer.” southern United States, became the first artist to
drape painted canvases into flowing shapes. He later
It is summer, glorious, deep-toned summer,
explored a different style, _______ quilt-like
The very crown of nature’s changing year
paintings inspired by the patchwork quilting
When all her surging life is at its full.
tradition of Black communities in the South.
To me alone it is a time of pause,
A void and silent space between two worlds, Which choice completes the text with the most
When inspiration lags, and feeling sleeps, logical and precise word or phrase?
Gathering strength for efforts yet to come.
A) predicting
As used in the text, what does the phrase “a void” B) refusing
most nearly mean?
C) hiding
A) A useless
D) creating
B) An empty
C) A forgotten
D) An incomplete
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PSAT/NMSQT®
Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test
Practice
Test#1 t:J
Make time to take the practice test.
It is one of the best ways to get ready
for the PSAT/NMSQT®.
After you have taken the practice test, score it
right away at collegeboard.org/psatscoring.
This version of the PSAT/NMSQT Practice Test is for students who will be taking
the digital PSAT/NMSQT in nondigital format.
6UPL01
,
,Test begins on the next page.
, Module
1
Reading and Writing
33 QUESTIONS
The questions in this section address a number of important reading and writing skills. Each
question includes one or more passages, which may include a table or graph. Read each passage
and question carefully, and then choose the best answer to the question based on the passage(s).
All questions in this section are multiple-choice with four answer choices. Each question has a
single best answer.
......................................................................................................................................................................................................
1 2
The following text is adapted from Amy Lowell’s In the 1960s, Sam Gilliam, a Black painter from the
1912 poem “Summer.” southern United States, became the first artist to
drape painted canvases into flowing shapes. He later
It is summer, glorious, deep-toned summer,
explored a different style, _______ quilt-like
The very crown of nature’s changing year
paintings inspired by the patchwork quilting
When all her surging life is at its full.
tradition of Black communities in the South.
To me alone it is a time of pause,
A void and silent space between two worlds, Which choice completes the text with the most
When inspiration lags, and feeling sleeps, logical and precise word or phrase?
Gathering strength for efforts yet to come.
A) predicting
As used in the text, what does the phrase “a void” B) refusing
most nearly mean?
C) hiding
A) A useless
D) creating
B) An empty
C) A forgotten
D) An incomplete
Unauthorized copying or reuse of any part of this page is illegal. 2 CO NTI N U E
