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SAT Cross-Text Connections practice questions

Two short texts on one topic. You decide how one author would respond to the other, or what both would agree on.

Practice Cross-Text Connections 101 questions, no account needed.

The usual trap

The two authors often agree on part of the issue. Choices that have one author reject everything, or accept everything, usually go too far.

Try three questions

Pick an answer to check it and see why.

  1. 01Question 1

    Medium

    Text 1: Letting employees work from home, supporters say, removes the daily commute, lets people concentrate without constant interruption, and widens the pool of talent a company can draw on far beyond its own city. Text 2: Much of what makes a team effective happens in unplanned moments — a question asked across a desk, a problem worked out at the coffee machine. When everyone works apart, these exchanges disappear, and the quick, informal learning that newer employees especially rely on becomes much harder to come by.

    Based on the texts, how would the author of Text 2 most likely respond to the case made in Text 1?

  2. 02Question 2

    Medium

    Text 1: Homework, its defenders say, extends learning beyond the school day. Practicing a skill alone, without a teacher prompting every step, is how students come to truly own it — and how they build the discipline that later study and work will demand. Text 2: Time is not equal for every student. A child with a quiet room and a parent free to help gains far more from an evening of homework than one who must mind younger siblings or work an after-school job. Assigning the same homework to all can widen the very gaps that school is meant to close.

    Based on the texts, how would the author of Text 2 most likely respond to the argument in Text 1?

  3. 03Question 3

    Hard

    Text 1: The critic Vance praises the trend of filming long, unbroken takes in movies, arguing that an uninterrupted shot immerses viewers in a scene's real time and tension as no edited sequence can. Text 2: The editor Salko grants that a long take can be gripping but warns that the technique draws attention to itself. When viewers begin admiring the camera's endurance, she argues, they are no longer lost in the story — the very immersion the technique promises.

    Based on the texts, how would Salko (Text 2) most likely respond to Vance's praise in Text 1?

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