Digital SAT Passage Practice - Set 6

An austere lobby redesign, a lighthouse restoration documentary, and a mountain mining town each hide one of the ten words from SAT Vocab Ep.6. Eighteen Digital SAT-format questions walk through every Reading and Writing skill, from word meaning to cross-text evidence.

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Set 6 Full Domain Practice From Ep.6 Words

High School Grades 10-12 18 Questions Digital SAT Format

◀ Review Vocab Ep.6 First All Digital SAT Practice

The Digital SAT Reading and Writing section is built from short passages, usually 25 to 150 words, with one question attached to each. Two of the four content domains, Craft and Structure and Information and Ideas, make up more than half the test and cover several distinct skills, not just vocabulary. This set covers every skill inside both domains, from Words in Context and Text Structure to Cross-Text Connections, Central Ideas, Command of Evidence, and Inferences, using the same ten words from SAT Vocab Ep.6 so the vocabulary stays familiar while the question types rotate through the full range you will actually see on test day.

Set 6 pulls its passages from a mix of design and civic scenarios: a stripped-down lobby renovation, a mysterious new department head, a clearly explained interest rate decision, a persistent grant writer, an air traffic control shift, and a handful of settings involving a lighthouse restoration documentary, handwritten versus typed note-taking, vinyl record sales, and a geothermal heating proposal. None of these scenarios repeat a real-world case; they were written specifically to give each of the ten Ep.6 words a natural, test-realistic sentence to live in.

Several Ep.6 words describe careful, steady behavior, judicious, resolute, tenacious, and vigilant all suggest someone acting with control and purpose, while capricious describes the opposite: sudden, unpredictable change. Recognizing this contrast quickly can rule out two wrong answers before you finish reading.

Read each passage once, answer, and check the explanation regardless of whether you got it right. The explanations point to the exact phrase in the passage that the correct answer depends on, which is the habit that separates strong readers from students who are guessing.

Words in Context - Definitions

These five questions test whether you can identify a word's precise meaning using only the sentence around it. The scenarios range from a stripped-down lobby redesign to an air traffic control shift.

Question 1 of 18 Craft and Structure

The renovated lobby traded its ornate marble columns for an austere design of bare concrete and glass, a shift the architect said was meant to focus visitors' attention on the artwork rather than the building itself.

As used in the text, "austere" most nearly means

Question 2 of 18 Craft and Structure

Colleagues found the new department head enigmatic, since he rarely explained the reasoning behind his decisions and left most of his background before joining the company a mystery.

As used in the text, "enigmatic" most nearly means

Question 3 of 18 Craft and Structure

Even readers with no background in economics praised the columnist's lucid explanation of the interest rate decision, which broke the policy down into three clear, sequential steps.

As used in the text, "lucid" most nearly means

Question 4 of 18 Craft and Structure

The tenacious grant writer submitted the same proposal to eleven different foundations after ten rejections, revising it each time until the twelfth submission finally secured funding.

As used in the text, "tenacious" most nearly means

Question 5 of 18 Craft and Structure

Air traffic controllers must remain vigilant throughout an entire shift, since a single missed radio call during a routine stretch can lead to a serious error.

As used in the text, "vigilant" most nearly means

Words in Context - Complete the Text

Instead of a highlighted word, these three questions leave a blank and ask you to choose the word that fits the sentence's logic, using capricious, judicious, and resolute.

Question 6 of 18 Craft and Structure

Employees dreaded the manager's ______ scheduling changes, since shifts posted on Monday were sometimes rewritten entirely by Wednesday without explanation.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?

Question 7 of 18 Craft and Structure

The trustees praised the new director for her ______ use of the museum's limited acquisition budget, prioritizing a small number of pieces that filled clear gaps in the collection.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?

Question 8 of 18 Craft and Structure

Despite losing the first two matches of the tournament, the team remained ______, insisting they could still qualify for the semifinals if they won every remaining game.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?

Text Structure and Purpose

These two questions step back from single words and ask how a passage is organized, or what a specific sentence is doing within it, using a lighthouse restoration documentary and a note-taking study.

Question 9 of 18 Craft and Structure

A new documentary on the restoration of a century-old lighthouse opens by highlighting the painstaking historical accuracy of its footage. Throughout most of the film, the narrator stresses that the restoration crew relied exclusively on period-appropriate materials. Its final segment, however, reveals that the lighthouse's modern safety lighting system required contemporary components the original builders never had access to. That revelation qualifies the claim of full historical accuracy the film had built up to that point.

Which choice best describes the function of the last sentence in the text as a whole?

Question 10 of 18 Craft and Structure

Education researchers tracked two student groups during the same lecture, one taking handwritten notes and one taking typed notes, across several weeks to compare note-taking methods. The handwritten-note group scored only slightly higher on recall than the typed-note group, a gap unlikely to matter in practice. In note completeness, however, the typed-note group produced substantially more detailed notes overall. The single-variable design of the study is what let this distinction show up clearly.

Which choice best describes the overall structure of the text?

Cross-Text Connections

These two questions present two short, related passages and ask how one would likely respond to a claim made in the other, using a vinyl record sales debate and a geothermal heating proposal.

Question 11 of 18 Craft and Structure

Text 1

Vinyl demand has been sliding for years as streaming grows more dominant, and music industry analyst Farah Chen expects sales to keep falling toward near-zero within the next five years.

Text 2

Younger collectors, it turns out, kept vinyl alive: a 2027 retail report recorded a thirteen percent sales increase, which several record store owners linked to renewed interest from that demographic.

Based on the texts, how would the author of Text 2 most likely respond to Chen's prediction in Text 1?

Question 12 of 18 Craft and Structure

Text 1

Soil temperature models cited in a municipal energy report suggest that converting public buildings to geothermal heating could cut the city's heating costs by roughly thirty-five percent.

Text 2

An independent geologist who reviewed those soil temperature models found they treated the whole city as having uniform ground temperature, overlooking the sharp variation in bedrock from one district to the next.

Which choice best describes the relationship between the two texts?

Central Ideas and Details

These two questions reuse the benevolent and scrutinize passages from earlier vocabulary work, this time asking what the passage means as a whole rather than what one word means.

Question 13 of 18 Information and Ideas

The foundation's benevolent mission funded scholarships for students who could not otherwise afford college tuition, awarding grants based purely on financial need rather than academic ranking or test scores.

Which choice best describes the main idea of the text?

Question 14 of 18 Information and Ideas

Before publishing the study, the review board scrutinized every data point for possible errors, ultimately catching a calculation mistake that would have overstated the treatment's effectiveness by nearly ten percent.

Based on the text, which choice best describes the outcome of the review?

Command of Evidence

These two questions give you a claim and ask which piece of evidence would most directly support it, a skill that shows up constantly in the Information and Ideas domain.

Question 15 of 18 Information and Ideas

A twelve-week study set out to determine whether a plant-based diet lowers LDL cholesterol more than a typical diet, apart from exercise habits or starting cholesterol. Researchers compared cholesterol readings from participants paired across twenty clinics by starting cholesterol, exercise habits, and age range. Diet was the sole condition that shifted from one paired participant to the next.

Which finding, if true, would most directly support the researchers' proposal?

Question 16 of 18 Information and Ideas

Shipping manifests from a mountain mining town reveal a far wider range of exported minerals than earlier accounts described, a historian contends, arguing that scholarly focus on the town's gold production has obscured this broader economic picture.

Which piece of evidence would most directly support the historian's argument?

Inferences

These two questions close the set with an unfinished passage and ask you to complete the logical conclusion the evidence supports, without overreaching beyond what the passage actually shows.

Question 17 of 18 Information and Ideas

Spaced repetition apps helped students retain thirty percent more vocabulary after one month than flashcards reviewed all at once, despite both groups studying for identical total time. A teacher with limited class time could reasonably infer from this that ______.

Which choice most logically completes the text?

Question 18 of 18 Information and Ideas

Simple tools were scattered throughout most dwellings at an ancient settlement, yet one large structure near the settlement's center held an intact forge along with partially finished metal ornaments. This finding points to the idea that ______.

Which choice most logically completes the text?

out of 18 correct

Question Distribution by Skill

How This Set Is Built

Set 6 covers every skill inside Craft and Structure and Information and Ideas, the two domains that together make up more than half of the Reading and Writing section. It draws on Ep.6's cluster of steady, purposeful words, judicious, resolute, tenacious, and vigilant, contrasted against capricious, the one word in the set that describes sudden, unpredictable change. The two Central Ideas questions close the vocabulary loop by reusing benevolent and scrutinize from earlier in the set, this time asking what the passage means rather than what the word means.

Every passage in this set was written specifically for these ten words. None are adapted from outside sources, and none repeat across other sets in this series.

Skill	Domain	Questions
Words in Context - Definitions	Craft and Structure	5
Words in Context - Complete the Text	Craft and Structure	3
Text Structure and Purpose	Craft and Structure	2
Cross-Text Connections	Craft and Structure	2
Central Ideas and Details	Information and Ideas	2
Command of Evidence	Information and Ideas	2
Inferences	Information and Ideas	2

Where Students Lose Points on This Set

Words in Context questions are usually missed for one of two reasons: either the reader focuses only on the highlighted word and ignores the surrounding clause that explains it, or they pick an answer that matches their own memorized definition instead of the meaning the sentence actually supports. In this set, words like enigmatic and lucid work the same way: the correct choice always traces back to a specific phrase in the passage, never to outside knowledge of the word.

Cross-Text Connections trips up students who assume the second text will always agree with the first. In both Question 11 and Question 12 here, Text 2 pushes back on an assumption in Text 1 rather than confirming it, which is the more common relationship on the actual exam than most students expect.

Command of Evidence questions are missed most often when a student picks the answer that sounds true in general rather than the one that tests the specific claim being made. Question 15's correct answer is the only choice that measures the exact outcome, LDL cholesterol levels, that the researchers proposed. The other three choices are all plausible facts that simply do not address that claim.

Reviewed by the CramBookNotes SAT prep team as part of the Digital SAT Passage Practice series.

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