Our December 2026 SAT reading prediction ranks question types by how often they came back in 2026. Evidence questions that use a table or graph lead the list. Earlier questions of that type came back on 41 of 548 chances (7.5%). The rate for all English questions in our banks was 4.3%. The test is on Saturday, December 5, 2026. Every bank we studied sits in our SAT question bank hub.
7.5%
of chances: evidence questions with data came back in 2026 (41 of 548)
4.3%
of chances: all English questions came back in 2026 (861 of 20,117)
9.0%
of bank questions came back on an average 2026 date in our back-test (range 0.5% to 19.3%)
25 days
from November 10 to the test on Saturday, December 5, 2026
Read this as a prediction. It is not a leak and not a guarantee. Most of what appears on a test date will not be in any prediction bank, and results swing from date to date. Repeat history can still tell you which question types to practice first. The December 2026 English prediction bank turns that list into a 400-question practice set. This page teaches the method for each type.
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What is the December 2026 SAT reading prediction based on?
It is based on repeat history in our own question banks. We compared every question in 23 English banks, 6,115 questions in all, from March 2024 to November 2026.
23
English question banks compared
6,115
questions in those banks
March 2024 to November 2026
test dates covered
A model scores each question on five things: how many test dates it has appeared on, how many times this year, how long ago and in which season, how often its passage has come back, and how often its skill comes back. Each question gets two scores. One is the chance that the same question returns. The other is the chance that its passage returns with a different question. We fit the model again after every test date. Our SAT predictions 2026 hub explains the method for every subject.
Remember. This is a prediction for study planning. It ranks what to practice first. It is not a leak and not a guarantee.
What changed in our SAT reading prediction after November?
We scored the November prediction after the test date, then changed the method. The November 2026 SAT prediction used one rule: pick questions that had already repeated twice.
Of the 574 English questions in the November prediction bank, 52 came back as the same or a reworked question (9.1%). And 89 of the 574 sat on a passage that came back (15.5%). November itself repeated a lot. In our November 2026 bank, 198 of 350 questions (56.6%) repeat a question from an earlier bank.
November method: one rule
Pick questions that had already repeated twice. After the test, 52 of 574 came back as the same or a reworked question (9.1%).
December method: a model
Five signals and two scores for every question. In the back-test for November 2026 it scored 9.8% on questions and 25.5% on passages.
For December we replaced the single rule with the model above. Then we tested it on the past. We rebuilt the 400-question bank for each earlier test date, using only the banks that existed before that date.
- Across the 2026 test dates, 9.0% of bank questions came back on average. The worst date was 0.5% and the best was 19.3%.
- On average, 19.9% of bank questions sat on a passage that came back.
- For November 2026, this model would have scored 9.8% on questions and 25.5% on passages.
Two signals drive most of the ranking. A "chance" in the table is one earlier question checked against one 2026 test date, from March to November.
| Signal | Group | Came back in 2026 | Returns of chances |
|---|---|---|---|
| Test dates the question had appeared on | One | 3.5% | 554 of 15,760 |
| Two | 5.1% | 174 of 3,444 | |
| Three | 12.3% | 72 of 587 | |
| Four | 17.6% | 37 of 210 | |
| Five or more | 20.7% | 24 of 116 | |
| Times seen earlier in the same year | None | 4.3% | 658 of 15,153 |
| Once | 3.2% | 151 of 4,693 | |
| Twice | 16.5% | 34 of 206 | |
| Three or more | 27.7% | 18 of 65 |
Questions seen on more dates come back more. Questions seen twice or more in the same year come back most. In the December bank, 365 of the 400 questions have already appeared on two or more test dates.
When is the December SAT?
November 20, 2026
Registration deadline
November 24, 2026
Late registration deadline
December 5, 2026
Test day, a Saturday
December 18, 2026
Scores come out
The December SAT is on Saturday, December 5, 2026. The registration deadline is November 20, 2026, and late registration closes on November 24, per College Board's December 5 page. Scores come out on December 18, 2026, per its score release dates. From November 10, that leaves 25 days to study. Our December 2026 SAT dates guide lists every deadline.
How many reading questions are on the SAT?
The Reading and Writing section has 54 questions in 64 minutes. It comes in two modules of 27 questions and 32 minutes each. In each module, 25 questions are operational and 2 are pretest questions, per College Board's Reading and Writing specifications.
54
questions in the Reading and Writing section
64 minutes
for the section
2 modules
of 27 questions and 32 minutes each
25 to 150 words
in each passage
People also ask how many reading passages are on the SAT. Each question comes with its own short passage, or a pair of passages, of 25 to 150 words. That is from College Board's Reading and Writing page. So you read a new text for every question.
Remember. One passage, one question. You read a new short text for every question.
How the SAT Reading and Writing section splits by domain
College Board splits the SAT Reading and Writing section into four domains. Two of them make up the reading half: Information and Ideas (about 26% of questions) and Craft and Structure (about 28%). On a 54-question section, that works out to about 14 and 15 questions.
Information and Ideas
About 26% of the section in College Board's specifications. 28.5% of our fall 2026 English questions.
Craft and Structure
About 28% in College Board's specifications. 27.8% of our fall 2026 English questions, with Words in Context alone at 15.3%.
Our fall 2026 banks hold 1,376 English questions from August to November. Information and Ideas made up 28.5% of them and Craft and Structure 27.8%. Words in Context alone was 15.3%, and our December 2026 SAT vocabulary guide covers it. For the full DSAT Reading and Writing domain distribution in 2026, read our domain distribution guide. For counts of every type, see how many questions are on the Digital SAT by type.
The writing half has its own December pages: December 2026 SAT transitions and notes and December 2026 SAT grammar rules.
Which SAT reading questions are most likely to return in December 2026?
Four types came back at 5.0% or more in 2026: evidence questions with data, quotation evidence, text structure and logical conclusions. The rate for all English questions was 4.3% (861 of 20,117 chances). Study in the order of this table.
Do this first. Start with the four types at 5.0% or more: completing a statement with data, quotations that illustrate a claim, overall structure and logical conclusions.
| Study order | Question type | College Board skill | Share of fall 2026 English questions | Came back in 2026 | In the December bank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Complete a statement with data | Command of Evidence | 4.3% | 7.5% (41 of 548) | 28 |
| 2 | Quotation that illustrates a claim | Command of Evidence | 2.2% | 5.9% (31 of 526) | 17 |
| 3 | Overall structure of the text | Text Structure and Purpose | 2.8% | 5.2% (19 of 367) | 11 |
| 4 | Logical conclusion | Inferences | 5.4% | 5.0% (68 of 1,347) | 25 |
| 5 | Evidence that supports a claim | Command of Evidence | 3.8% | 4.8% (33 of 681) | 12 |
| 6 | Cross-text connections | Cross-Text Connections | 1.6% | 4.4% (12 of 273) | 6 |
| 7 | Evidence that weakens a claim | Command of Evidence | 1.2% | 4.3% (8 of 184) | 4 |
| 8 | Function of an underlined sentence | Text Structure and Purpose | 3.8% | 4.0% (34 of 855) | 20 |
| 9 | Stated detail | Central Ideas and Details | 2.8% | 3.4% (15 of 446) | 6 |
| 10 | Main idea | Central Ideas and Details | 2.6% | 3.3% (19 of 583) | 10 |
| 11 | Inference | Inferences | 4.4% | 3.1% (16 of 510) | 13 |
| 12 | Main purpose of the text | Text Structure and Purpose | 2.1% | 3.1% (15 of 487) | 5 |
| 13 | Evidence from a graph or table | Command of Evidence | 1.9% | 2.8% (15 of 537) | 7 |
| 14 | How one author would respond | Cross-Text Connections | 1.0% | 2.3% (4 of 175) | 2 |
"Share" is the type's share of all English questions in our fall 2026 banks. "Came back" counts earlier questions of that type that returned on a 2026 test date as the same or a reworked question. The last column counts questions of that type in the 400-question December bank. These 14 types hold 166 of the 400.
Remember. Some samples are small. Weaken questions came back 8 times and author-response questions 4 times, so treat those two rates as rough.
Remember. Our banks file inference questions under two labels, Logical Conclusion and Inference. In our November 2026 bank, 9.1% of questions carry the Inference label and none carry the Logical Conclusion label. Read those two rows together.
Practice all three levels. Our fall 2026 English questions were 28.6% Easy, 36.8% Intermediate and 34.5% Hard. The December bank holds 102 Easy, 195 Intermediate and 103 Hard questions.
28.6%
Easy in fall 2026. 102 Easy questions in the December bank.
36.8%
Intermediate in fall 2026. 195 in the December bank.
34.5%
Hard in fall 2026. 103 in the December bank.
Rule. The eight practice questions on this page were written for this page, in the style of the question types above. They are not questions from any test, and the details in their passages are made up. Each one sits in the section for its type.
What are Information and Ideas questions on the SAT?
They test whether you can find, weigh and use what a text says. College Board lists three skills in this domain: Central Ideas and Details, Command of Evidence (textual and quantitative), and Inferences. Our banks split those skills into nine types of SAT reading questions.
Rule. For every reading question, the right choice is backed by words in the text. If you cannot point to those words, cut the choice.
Complete a statement with data
Study order 1 of 14
What the stem asks. A table or graph comes with the text. You pick the choice that uses its data to complete a statement or an example.
Trap. A number that is true on the table but answers a different claim. Wrong row, wrong column or wrong comparison.
- Read the sentence with the blank. Name what must be shown: which group, which measure, which direction.
- Go to the table and find those cells only.
- Check each choice against those cells. True and on the claim wins. True and off the claim loses.
Our data. 4.3% of fall 2026 English questions. Earlier questions came back on 41 of 548 chances (7.5%), the highest rate of any reading type here. The December bank holds 28, also the most.
Invented example (ours, not from any test). A text claims that practice quizzes beat rereading notes. It comes with this table.
| Study method (invented data) | Students | Average quiz score |
|---|---|---|
| Rereading notes | 70 | 74 |
| Flash cards | 65 | 78 |
| Practice quizzes | 65 | 86 |
Right choice
It compares 86 for practice quizzes with 74 for rereading notes.
Trap choice
It cites 78 for flash cards. That number is true, but it is the wrong comparison.
Our tables and charts guide has more drills.
Practice question 1 (study order 1: complete a statement with data)
A school district's nutrition team wanted students to waste less fruit at lunch. For two weeks, staff at three schools checked 200 trays each. One school served whole fruit. One served sliced fruit. One served sliced fruit next to a sign about its benefits. The team concluded that slicing mattered far more than the sign did: ______
| Lunch line | Trays checked | Trays with fruit left uneaten |
|---|---|---|
| Whole fruit | 200 | 84 |
| Sliced fruit | 200 | 46 |
| Sliced fruit with a sign | 200 | 44 |
Which choice most effectively uses data from the table to complete the statement?
A. the school with whole fruit had 84 trays with uneaten fruit, while the school with sliced fruit and a sign had 44.
B. uneaten fruit fell from 84 trays to 46 when the fruit was sliced, but only from 46 to 44 when a sign was added.
C. staff checked 200 trays at each of the three schools.
D. the school with a sign had 44 trays with uneaten fruit, the lowest count of the three.
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Answer: B. The claim compares two effects, so the data must show both: the drop from slicing (84 to 46) and the drop from the sign (46 to 44). Choice A mixes the two effects together. Choices C and D are true on the table but do not compare slicing with the sign.
Written for this page in the style of this question type. Not from any test. Its details are made up.
Quotations that illustrate a claim
Study order 2 of 14
What the stem asks. The text makes a claim about a poem, a story or a speech. You pick the quotation that best illustrates it.
Trap. A quotation with the right mood that misses one part of the claim.
- Split the claim into parts: who, what feeling or action, toward what.
- Read each quotation for every part.
- Cut any quotation that misses one part.
Our data. 2.2% of fall 2026 English questions. Earlier questions came back on 31 of 526 chances (5.9%), the second-highest rate here. The December bank holds 17.
Practice question 2 (study order 2: quotation that illustrates a claim)
"The Ferry Keeper" is a short story written for this page. Its narrator describes Ines, who runs a small river ferry. A student claims that Ines takes pride in work that other people overlook.
Which quotation from the story most effectively illustrates the claim?
A. "The ferry crossed the river six times a day, and Ines counted each crossing in a small green book."
B. "Ines had wanted to leave the river since she was a girl, and the wish had never quite faded."
C. "No passenger ever thanked her for the knots, yet Ines tied each one as if the whole town were watching."
D. "Each spring the town held a parade to honor Ines and the ferry crew."
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Answer: C. The claim has two parts: pride, and work that others overlook. Choice C shows both: no one thanks her, and she still ties each knot with care. Choice A shows routine with no pride, B shows a wish to leave, and D shows work that the town notices.
Written for this page in the style of this question type. Not from any test. Its details are made up.
Logical conclusion questions
Study order 4 of 14
What the stem asks. The text ends with a blank. You pick the choice that most logically completes it.
Trap. A choice that sounds smart but goes one step past the text. It may be true in everyday life. The text does not prove it.
- Find the last claim before the blank and the fact that sets it up.
- Say the conclusion in your own words before you read the choices.
- Keep the choice that every sentence supports. Cut any choice that adds a new idea or uses a stronger word than the text does.
Our data. 5.4% of fall 2026 English questions. Earlier questions came back on 68 of 1,347 chances (5.0%). The December bank holds 25. For more patterns, read our seven logical conclusion patterns.
Invented example (ours, not from any test). A town library ended late fees in March. Staff feared that fewer books would come back on time. On-time returns stayed the same, and 300 former members renewed their cards.
Right choice
Late fees did little to bring books back, and they kept some readers away.
Trap choice
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Late fees caused most lost books. Nothing in the text is about lost books.
Practice question 3 (study order 4: logical conclusion)
A city transit office moved the stops on one bus route farther apart, from every two blocks to every four. Planners expected riders to dislike the longer walk and to leave the route. Instead, the average trip got six minutes shorter, and ridership on the route rose over the next year. This result suggests that, for riders on this route, ______
Which choice most logically completes the text?
A. a faster trip mattered more than a shorter walk to the stop.
B. walking is the main reason people choose the bus.
C. every route in the city should have fewer stops.
D. trip time has no effect on how many people ride.
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Answer: A. Riders got a longer walk and a faster trip, and more of them rode. So the faster trip outweighed the longer walk. Choice C goes past the text, which covers one route. Choice D contradicts the result.
Written for this page in the style of this question type. Not from any test. Its details are made up.
Evidence that supports a claim
Study order 5 of 14
What the stem asks. The text gives a claim or a hypothesis. You pick the finding that would most directly support it.
Trap. A finding on the same topic that does not test the claim. Or a finding that supports only half of it.
- Cut the claim down to a cause and a result: X leads to Y.
- Predict what you would see if the claim is right.
- Pick the finding that shows both X and Y, linked.
Our data. 3.8% of fall 2026 English questions. Earlier questions came back on 33 of 681 chances (4.8%). The December bank holds 12. See our SAT evidence questions guide for quotes, data, support and weaken.
Practice question 4 (study order 5: evidence that supports a claim)
Some sleep researchers hypothesize that teenagers at schools with later start times sleep more on school nights because they wake later, not because they change when they go to bed.
Which finding, if true, would most directly support this hypothesis?
A. After a district moved its start time from 7:30 to 8:30, students reported going to bed an hour later and waking an hour later.
B. Students at schools with later start times reported eating breakfast more often.
C. Teenagers in the district slept longer on weekends than on school nights.
D. After a district moved its start time from 7:30 to 8:30, students reported the same bedtimes as before and wake times about an hour later.
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Answer: D. The hypothesis says the extra sleep comes from waking later while bedtime stays the same. Choice D shows both parts. In choice A bedtime moves too, so sleep does not grow. Choices B and C do not test the claim.
Written for this page in the style of this question type. Not from any test. Its details are made up.
Evidence that weakens a claim
Study order 7 of 14
What the stem asks. The setup is the same. This time you pick the finding that would most directly weaken or challenge the claim.
Trap. A finding that supports the claim, picked because you forgot the task. A neutral finding is the second trap.
- State the claim as X leads to Y.
- Predict the break: X without Y, or Y without X.
- Pick the finding that shows the break.
Our data. 1.2% of fall 2026 English questions. Earlier questions came back on 8 of 184 chances (4.3%), a small sample. The December bank holds 4.
Stated detail questions
Study order 9 of 14
What the stem asks. It asks what the text says about one thing: according to the text, what happened or why.
Trap. A choice that reuses words from the text but changes who did what.
- Find the key word from the stem in the text.
- Reread that sentence and the one before it.
- Pick the choice that restates it with nothing added.
Our data. 2.8% of fall 2026 English questions. Earlier questions came back on 15 of 446 chances (3.4%). The December bank holds 6.
How to answer main idea questions on the SAT
Study order 10 of 14
What the stem asks. It asks which choice best states the main idea of the text.
Trap. A true detail from one sentence, which is too narrow. Or a broad statement the text never makes.
- After you read, say the point in ten words or fewer.
- Check that your point covers the first sentence and the last one.
- Pick the choice with the same scope: more than one detail, less than the whole field.
Our data. 2.6% of fall 2026 English questions. Earlier questions came back on 19 of 583 chances (3.3%). The December bank holds 10. Our main idea formula shows the method on a full example.
Practice question 5 (study order 10: main idea)
For decades, the clock tower in Ostley Square ran four minutes fast. Visitors complained, and the council voted twice to fix it. Each time, residents objected. Shopkeepers said the early chime sent workers to the train on time. Parents said it got children to school before the bell. In the end, the council left the clock alone and added a small sign: "Tower time."
Which choice best states the main idea of the text?
A. Visitors to Ostley Square often complained about the town's clock tower.
B. A town chose to keep a clock that ran fast because its residents had come to rely on it.
C. Town councils rarely listen to the people who live there.
D. Shopkeepers in Ostley Square depend on train schedules.
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Answer: B. Choice B covers the whole text: the fast clock, the objections and the decision to keep it. Choices A and D are single details. Choice C is a broad claim the text never makes, and the council in the text did listen.
Written for this page in the style of this question type. Not from any test. Its details are made up.
How to answer inference questions on the SAT
Study order 11 of 14
What the stem asks. It asks what the text most strongly suggests, or which statement the text best supports. There may be no blank.
Trap. A choice that could be true but has no sentence behind it. A half-right choice is the other trap: one part matches and one part does not.
- Mark the two facts the question points to.
- Ask what must follow if both facts are true.
- Match a choice to that, then point to the words that back each part of it.
Our data. 4.4% of fall 2026 English questions. Earlier questions came back on 16 of 510 chances (3.1%). The December bank holds 13. Our inference questions guide goes deeper.
How many inference questions are on the SAT?
College Board's specifications give a share for each domain, not for each skill. Information and Ideas is about 26% of the section.
In our fall 2026 banks, the two inference labels together made up 9.8% of English questions (5.4% plus 4.4%). If a test form matched that mix, about 5 of its 54 questions would be inference questions. That is an estimate from our banks. It is not an official number. Our page on how many inference questions are on the SAT counts them form by form.
Evidence from a graph or table
Study order 13 of 14
What the stem asks. It asks which statement the graph or table best supports, or which data back a conclusion in the text.
Trap. A choice that reads the right bar but flips the direction, or mixes up two labels.
- Read the title, the labels and the units first.
- Restate the conclusion from the text in your own words.
- Test each choice on the figure, one number at a time.
Our data. 1.9% of fall 2026 English questions. Earlier questions came back on 15 of 537 chances (2.8%). The December bank holds 7.
What is Craft and Structure in reading?
Craft and Structure asks how a text is built and why the author built it that way. College Board lists three skills here: Words in Context, Text Structure and Purpose, and Cross-Text Connections. Words in Context is on our vocabulary page. The five types below cover the other two skills.
Do this first. Before you read the choices, label what each sentence is doing: claim, example, contrast or result.
Overall structure of the text
Study order 3 of 14
What the stem asks. The standard stem reads: "Which choice best describes the overall structure of the text?" It asks how the text is organized.
Trap. A choice whose first half fits and whose second half does not.
- Split the text into two or three moves.
- Label each move: claim, example, contrast, result.
- Check both halves of every choice against your labels.
Our data. 2.8% of fall 2026 English questions. Earlier questions came back on 19 of 367 chances (5.2%). The December bank holds 11.
Practice question 6 (study order 3: overall structure of the text)
Early weather forecasters relied on local signs: the color of the sky, the ache in a sailor's knee. The telegraph changed that. Once observers in distant towns could share readings within minutes, forecasters could track a storm as it moved and warn the towns in its path. A forecast stopped being a guess about the sky overhead and became a report on weather that had not yet arrived.
Which choice best describes the overall structure of the text?
A. It presents a problem, then argues that the problem cannot be solved.
B. It compares two tools and concludes that the older one works better.
C. It describes an older practice, then explains how a new tool changed that practice.
D. It makes a claim about storms, then lists evidence against that claim.
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Answer: C. The first sentence describes how forecasting used to work. The rest explains what the telegraph changed. No choice with "cannot be solved", "older one works better" or "evidence against" fits both halves.
Written for this page in the style of this question type. Not from any test. Its details are made up.
Cross-text connections
Study order 6 of 14
What the stem asks. You get two short texts. The stem asks what both authors would agree on, or how the two views relate.
Trap. A choice that is true for one text only.
- Sum up each text in one line.
- Mark where the two lines agree and where they split.
- Test each choice against both lines.
Our data. 1.6% of fall 2026 English questions. Earlier questions came back on 12 of 273 chances (4.4%). The December bank holds 6. Read about the half-right trap on two-text questions.
Practice question 7 (study order 6: cross-text connections)
Text 1. When the Harlow Community Center moved its monthly newsletter from paper to email, more residents heard about its events. An email reaches a phone in seconds and costs nothing to send.
Text 2. After the Harlow Community Center dropped its paper newsletter, staff surveyed members. Attendance among members over 65 fell, and many of them said they never saw the emails. Attendance among members under 30 rose.
Based on the texts, the author of Text 1 and the author of Text 2 would most likely agree with which statement?
A. The email newsletter reached every group of members better than paper did.
B. The center should bring back the paper newsletter.
C. Members under 30 came to fewer events after the change.
D. The way the center shares its news affects who learns about its events.
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Answer: D. Text 1 says the switch let more residents hear about events. Text 2 says some older members stopped seeing the news. Both accept that the format changes who gets the news. Choice A fits Text 1 only, B is in neither text, and C contradicts Text 2.
Written for this page in the style of this question type. Not from any test. Its details are made up.
Function of an underlined sentence
Study order 8 of 14
What the stem asks. One sentence, or part of one, is underlined. You pick the choice that describes its job in the text as a whole.
Trap. A choice that repeats what the sentence says but names the wrong job. It calls an example an objection, for instance.
- Read the sentence before the underline and the one after it.
- Label the job with a verb: introduces, explains, gives an example, objects, concludes.
- Match the verb first, then the content.
Our data. 3.8% of fall 2026 English questions. Earlier questions came back on 34 of 855 chances (4.0%). The December bank holds 20. Practice with our 3-step method for the underlined sentence.
Invented example (ours, not from any test). "Many gardeners water at noon. But midday sun dries much of that water before roots can use it. Watering at dawn sends more of it into the soil."
Right choice
It gives the reason the common habit falls short, which sets up the advice in the last sentence.
Trap choice
It describes a habit of gardeners. That is the job of the first sentence.
Practice question 8 (study order 8: function of an underlined sentence)
Bakers have long added a pinch of salt to bread dough. Salt does more than season the loaf. It slows the yeast, so the dough rises at a steady pace, and it tightens the gluten, so the loaf holds its shape. A dough made without salt rises fast, then sags.
Which choice best describes the function of the underlined sentence in the text as a whole?
A. It introduces the idea, explained in the sentences that follow, that salt has roles beyond flavor.
B. It gives an example of a dough that failed to rise.
C. It questions whether bakers should add salt to bread.
D. It summarizes the steps for baking a loaf.
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Answer: A. The underlined sentence makes a general point. The next sentence backs it with two specific roles. The verb to match is "introduces". The example of a failed dough comes in the last sentence, not the underlined one.
Written for this page in the style of this question type. Not from any test. Its details are made up.
Main purpose of the text
Study order 12 of 14
What the stem asks. It asks why the text was written: its main purpose.
Trap. A choice that names the right topic with the wrong verb. It says "argue" when the text only describes.
- Ask what the author is doing: explaining, arguing, describing or comparing.
- Add the subject to that verb.
- Reject any choice with a verb the text does not earn.
Our data. 2.1% of fall 2026 English questions. Earlier questions came back on 15 of 487 chances (3.1%). The December bank holds 5. Our purpose questions guide has more practice.
How one author would respond
Study order 14 of 14
What the stem asks. It asks how the author of Text 2 would most likely respond to a claim in Text 1.
Trap. An extreme reply. The choice has Text 2 agree with everything or reject everything when Text 2 just limits the claim.
- Find the claim in Text 1.
- Find what Text 2 says on that same point.
- Choose the reply with the same strength as Text 2: agrees, doubts, limits or adds.
Our data. 1.0% of fall 2026 English questions. Earlier questions came back on 4 of 175 chances (2.3%), a small sample. The December bank holds 2.
Invented example (ours, not from any test). Text 1 says a four-day school week raised attendance in one district. Text 2 says the gain faded after one year in the districts it studied.
Right choice
The author of Text 2 would accept the early gain and doubt that it lasts.
Trap choice
Text 2 denies that attendance ever rose. That reply is too strong.
How to improve your SAT reading score: a 25-day SAT reading practice plan
Practice by type, in the order of the table, and review every miss. The plan runs from November 10 to December 4, the day before the test.
Days 1 to 7 (November 10 to 16): evidence
Work the data, quotation and support types in the English prediction bank (400 questions, $99.99). Inside each domain, questions on the same topic sit together and run from Easy to Hard. Explanation videos are on 213 of the 400. Watch one after every miss.
Days 8 to 14 (November 17 to 23): inference
Do the logical conclusion and inference types. Write your own conclusion before you read the choices. If you have not signed up, the registration deadline is November 20.
Days 15 to 21 (November 24 to 30): structure and two texts
Do function, structure, purpose and both two-text types. Then do main idea and stated detail.
Days 22 to 25 (December 1 to 4): timed work
Run two 32-minute modules of 27 questions. College Board's pace is about 1 minute and 11 seconds per question. For SAT reading practice questions from the latest test date, use our November 2026 Reading and Writing question bank.
Day 26 (Saturday, December 5): test day
No new material. Scores come out on December 18, 2026.
Do this first. Tag every miss with its type from the table. After a week, count the tags. The type with the most misses gets your next session.
If the same wrong choices keep fooling you, read how to spot trap answers on SAT reading. For what students said about the last test date, see our November 2026 SAT reading recap.
Math needs its own plan. Our December 2026 SAT math prediction covers rules, steps and formulas, and the December 2026 Math prediction bank holds 200 questions. The earlier November and December 2026 SAT Math guide and the November 2026 Math question bank round it out.
How we built this page
Every Test Advantage number on this page comes from our analysis of our own question banks on thetestadvantage.com, built from the live database on November 10, 2026: 23 English banks with 6,115 questions, March 2024 to November 2026. "Came back" means the same or a reworked question returned on a later test date. The back-test rebuilt the bank for each earlier test date using only banks that existed before it. We show no test content here. Every example on this page is our own invented text. The test date, deadlines, score release date, section length and domain shares come from College Board pages fetched on November 10, 2026. This is a prediction for study planning. It is not a leak and not a guarantee. Verified 2026-11-10.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is the December 2026 SAT reading prediction based on?
It is based on repeat history in our 23 English question banks (6,115 questions, March 2024 to November 2026). A model scores each question on how many test dates it has appeared on, how recently, and how often its passage and skill come back. It is a prediction, not a leak or a guarantee.
Which SAT reading questions are most likely to return in December 2026?
In our 2026 data, four reading types came back at 5.0% or more: completing a statement with data (7.5%, 41 of 548 chances), quotations that illustrate a claim (5.9%), overall text structure (5.2%) and logical conclusions (5.0%). All English questions averaged 4.3%.
When is the December SAT?
The December SAT is on Saturday, December 5, 2026. College Board lists a registration deadline of November 20, 2026, a late registration deadline of November 24, 2026, and a score release date of December 18, 2026.
How many reading questions are on the SAT?
The Reading and Writing section has 54 questions in 64 minutes, split into two 32-minute modules of 27 questions. College Board puts about 26% of them in Information and Ideas and about 28% in Craft and Structure. Each question has its own passage of 25 to 150 words.
How many inference questions are on the SAT?
College Board gives a share for each domain, not for each skill. In our fall 2026 banks, the two inference labels made up 9.8% of English questions, which works out to about 5 of 54 if a test form matched that mix. That is our estimate, not an official count.
How to answer main idea questions on the SAT
Say the point of the text in ten words or fewer, check that it covers the first and last sentences, then pick the choice with the same scope. Reject a true detail that is too narrow and any broad statement the text never makes.
What are Information and Ideas questions on the SAT?
They test whether you can find, weigh and use what a text says. College Board lists three skills: Central Ideas and Details, Command of Evidence, and Inferences. The domain is about 26% of the Reading and Writing section, and it was 28.5% of our fall 2026 English questions.