SAT Reading & Writing
Information and Ideas — SAT Practice Questions
Information and Ideas measures how well you read and reason with a text: locating central ideas and details, using textual evidence to support a claim, and drawing logical inferences from what the passage states.
Skills covered in Information and Ideas
- Central Ideas and Details
- Command of Evidence
- Inferences
Practice Information and Ideas questions
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- “Valia” is a 1907 short story by Leonid Andreyev. In the story, the author emphasizes
- The following text is from Shyam Selvadurai’s 1994 novel Funny Boy. The seven-year-old
- Researchers wanted to study how consumers’ reactions to an ad may be affected by other ads.
- Elizabeth Asiedu has identified a negative correlation between the share of developing
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- The following text is from David Barclay Moore’s 2022 novel Holler of the Fireflies . The
- “The Rock and the Sea” is an 1893 poem by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. In the poem,
- Correlations Between Congestion Ratings and Features of the Crowd in Raters’ Immediate
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- Psychologists Dacher Keltner and Jonathan Haidt have argued that experiencing awe-a sensation of
- Off-off-Broadway theaters emerged in the late 1950s as a rebellion against mainstream Broadway
- Simulated Change in Annual Aquifer Input and Irrigation Output if Precipitation Concentration
- In the “language nest” model of eduion, Indigenous children learn the language of their
- Mean Time (in Seconds) Spent per Flower for Four Pollinator Genera Pollinator genus Seconds per
- Video Game Availability by Initial Release Years Initial release years Percentage of games still
- In documents called judicial opinions, judges explain the reasoning behind their legal rulings, and
- In 1934 physicist Eugene Wigner posited the existence of a crystal consisting entirely of electrons
- Approximate Rates of Speech and Information Conveyed for Five Languages Language Rate of speech
- An analysis by Alain Elayi and colleagues of coins minted in Sidon in the fifth and
- The domestic sweet potato ( Ipomoea batatas ) descends from a wild animal native to South
- As media consumption has become increasingly multiplatform and socially mediated, active news
- The following text is from Anton Chekhov’s 1898 short story “Ionitch” (translated
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- To protect themselves when being attacked, hagfish-jawless marine animals that resemble eels-will
- Black beans ( Phaseolus vulgaris ) are a nutritionally dense food, but they are difficult to
- “To You” is an 1856 poem by Walt Whitman. In the poem, Whitman suggests that readers,
- Male túngara frogs make complex calls to attract mates, but their calls also attract
- Partial List of Candidate Species for De-extinction Common name Scientific name Became extinct Huia
- The painter María Izquierdo played an important role in the development of twentieth-century
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- For its 1974 work Instant Mural , the Chicano art collective Asco taped members Patssi Valdez
- Dutch painters in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries often showed tables filled with large
- Sample of Food Items from Gemini Mission Menus Food item Day Meal Sugar cookie cubes 1
- “Mrs. Spring Fragrance” is a 1912 short story by Sui Sin Far. In the story, Mrs.
- The following text is adapted from Edgar Allan Poe’s 1849 story “Landor’s
- Daily Distance Traveled by Adult Mountain Lions in Three Seasons Season Kilometers per day traveled
- Jan Gimsa, Robert Sleigh, and Ulrike Gimsa have hypothesized that the sail-like structure running
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- Paleontologist Lucas E. Fiorelli and colleagues have reported the discovery at a mine in Brazil of
- Electra is a circa 420-410 BCE play by Sophocles, translated in 1870 by R.C. Jebb. Electra,
- The following text is adapted from María Cristina Mena’s 1914 short story “The
- Researchers Narelle Haworth and Amy Schramm studied bicycling behavior in Queensland, Australia.
- Xin Wang and colleagues have discovered the earliest known example of a flower bud in a
- During the Bourbon Restoration in France (1814-1830), the right to vote required in part that a
- Using the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), a team of astronomers mapped
- In 1967 the US Congress created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which in turn created
- Electronic music pioneer Wendy Carlos is credited with the music for three feature films: A
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- “The Young Girl” is a 1920 short story by Katherine Mansfield. In the story, the
- In 2022, researchers rediscovered ancient indigenous glyphs, or drawings, on the walls of a cave in
- Alice Guy-Blaché directed hundreds of films between 1896 and 1920. She wanted audiences to
- Archaeologist Christiana Kohler and her team excavated the Egyptian tomb of Queen Merneith, the
- Artificial leaves are a developing renewable energy technology that mimics the process of
- There Is Confusion is a 1924 novel by Jessie Redmon Fauset. In the novel, the narrator
- Percentage of Available Eggs Eaten by Cane Toad Tadpoles Amphibian species (common name) Percentage
- The Land of Enchantment is a 1906 travel book by Lilian Whiting. In the book, which
- The following text is adapted from Countee Cullen’s 1926 poem “Thoughts in a
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- Wakako Yamauchi is best known for And the Soul Shall Dance , her 1977 play about
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