Placement Test Practice Questions: Reading Comprehension
What kind of Questions are on the Reading Comprehension Placement
Test?
The Reading Comprehension Placement Test is designed
to measure how well you understand what you read. It contains 20
questions and is not timed. Some questions are the sentence
relationship type in which you must choose how sentences are related.
Other questions refer to passages of varying lengths and require
you to answer questions that test your comprehension.
Sample Questions
Sample questions are shown below for the Reading Comprehension Placement
Test. Those presented cover only a few of the areas covered by the
test.
Narrative Question:
Read the statement or passage and then choose the best answer
to the question. Answer the question on the basis of what is stated
or implied in the statement or passage.
There are two types of pottery that I do. There is production pottery-mugs,
tableware, the kinds of things that sell easily. These pay for my
time to do the other work, which is more creative and satisfies
my needs as an artist. The author of this passage implies that:
- artists have a tendency to waste valuable time
- creativity and mass-production are incompatible
- most people do not appreciate good art
- pottery is not produced by creative artists
Sentence Relationships Question:
Two underlined sentences are followed by a question or statement
about them. Read each pair of sentences and then choose the best
answer to the question or the best completion of the statement.
The Midwest is experiencing its worst drought in fifteen years.
Corn and soybean prices are expected to be very high this year.
What does the second sentence do?
- It restates the idea found in the first.
- It states an effect.
- It gives an example.
- It analyzes the statement made in the first.
Answers to Sample Questions
Reading Comprehension
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