TACHS Reading Practice Tests

Practice Tests

Topics

• Reading Comprehension

  • Biographical Sketches and Literary Non-Fiction

    • Attitude, Tone, and Purpose

      • Determining authorial attitude

  • Science Passages

    • Meaning of Words and Phrases

      • Finding context-dependent meaning of individual words

  • Social Science Passages

    • Attitude, Tone, and Purpose

      • Determining the purpose of an excerpt

    • Inferential Meaning

      • Making predictions based on the passage

    • Main Idea, Details, and Evaluative Meaning

      • Understanding and evaluating opinions and arguments in the passage

    • Meaning of Words and Phrases

      • Finding context-dependent meaning of phrases

• Vocabulary

  • Adjectives and Adverbs

    • Adjectives describing appearance, materiality and sensory imagery

    • Adverbs

  • Nouns

    • Abstract Nouns

    • Nouns for people

  • Verbs

    • Verbs about communicating and understanding

  • Words with multiple valid definitions

    • Distinguishing between multiple definitions