SSAT Upper Level Practice Test

Upper Level SSAT

Section 1
Time – 30 Minutes
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25 Questions

Following each problem in this section, there are five suggested answers. Work each problem in your head
or in the blank space provided at the right of the page. Then look at the five suggested answers and decide
which one is best.
Note: Figures that accompany problems in this section are drawn as accurately as possible EXCEPT when
it is stated in a specific problem that its figure is not drawn to scale.
Sample Problem:

5,413 (A) 586

– 4,827 (B) 596
(C) 696
(D) 1,586
(E) 1,686 A B C D E

USE THIS SPACE FOR FIGURING.

1. If h = 2, and h, i, and j are consecutive even integers
and h < i < j, what is h + i + j ?
(A) 3
(B) 5
(C) 9
(D) 10
(E) 12

1 1 1 1 2 3
2. If x = + + and y = + + , then x + y =
2 3 4 2 3 4
(A) 3

(B) 1
2
(C)
3
1
(D)
24
1
(E)
3

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3. If the product of 412.7 and 100 is rounded to the USE THIS SPACE FOR FIGURING.
nearest hundred, the answer will be
(A) 400
(B) 4,100
(C) 4,127
(D) 41,270
(E) 41,300

4 1
4. If of a number is 28, then of that number is
5 5
(A) 4
(B) 7
(C) 21
(D) 35
(E) 112

5. 14 + 3 × 7 + (12 ÷ 2) =

(A) 140

(B) 125
1
(C) 65
2
(D) 41

(E) 20

6. Maggie wants to mail postcards to 25 of her

friends and needs one stamp for each postcard.
If she buys 3 stamps at a time, how many sets of
stamps must she buy in order to mail all of her
postcards?
(A) 3
(B) 8
(C) 9
(D) 10
(E) 25

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USE THIS SPACE FOR FIGURING.

Money Raised from Candy Sale

Cost of Candy $1.00 $5.00 $10.00 $15.00

# Sold 100 25 20 5

7. How much more money was raised by the $10.00

candy than by the $5.00 candy?
(A) $32
(B) $50
(C) $75
(D) $125
(E) $200

8. What is the remainder when the square of 6 is

divided by the cube root of 64?
(A) 0
(B) 2
(C) 3
(D) 4
(E) 5

9. An art gallery has three collections: modern art,

sculpture, and photography. If the 24 items that
make up the modern art collection represent 25%
of the total number of items in the gallery, then
the average number of items in each of the other
two collections is
(A) 8
(B) 24
(C) 36
(D) 96
(E) 288

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10. At Calvin U. Smith Elementary School, the ratio USE THIS SPACE FOR FIGURING.
of students to teachers is 9:1. What fractional
part of the entire population at the school is
teachers?

1
(A)
10
1
(B) 9
1
(C) 8
8
(D) 1

9
(E)
1

11. The Ace Delivery Company employs two driv-

ers to make deliveries on a certain Saturday. If
Driver A makes d deliveries and Driver B makes
d + 2 deliveries, then in terms of d, the average
number of deliveries made by each driver is

(A) d

(B) d + 1

(C) d + 2
1
(D) d+2
2
3
(E) d
2

12. Which of the following is equal to w ?

(A) 180 – v
v°
(B) 180 + v
105° w – 10°
(C) 105
(D) 115
(E) 2v
Figure 2

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13. Tracy goes to the store and buys only candy USE THIS SPACE FOR FIGURING.
bars and cans of soda. She buys 3 times as many
candy bars as cans of soda. If she buys a total
of 24 items, how many of those items are candy
bars?
(A) 3
(B) 12
(C) 18
(D) 21
(E) 24

3
4
14. − =
3

64
(A)  
27
12
(B)  
9
12
(C) –
27
12
(D) –
9
64
(E) –
27

15. Of the following choices, which value for x

1
would satisfy the equation + x >1?
5

3
(A)
4
4
(B)
5
6
(C)
7
6
(D)
8
7
(E)
9

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16. Given the equations 2x + y = 8 and z + y = 8, find USE THIS SPACE FOR FIGURING.
the value of x.
(A) –8
(B) –4
(C) 4
(D) 16
(E) It cannot be determined from the
information given.

17. A, B, and C are squares. The length of one side of

square A is 3. The length of one side of square B
is twice the length of a side of square A, and the
length of one side of square C is twice the length
of a side of square B. What is the average area of
the three squares?
(A) 21 A B C
(B) 36
(C) 63
(D) 84
(E) 144
Not drawn to scale

18. There are 12 homes on a certain street. If 4

homes are painted blue, 3 are painted red, and
the remaining homes are green, what fractional
part of the homes on the street are green?

(A) 7

(B) 5
7
(C)
12
5
(D)
12
1
(E)
12

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19. Melissa lives 30 miles from work and Katy lives USE THIS SPACE FOR FIGURING.
40 miles from work. If Melissa and Katy work
at the same office, how many miles apart do the
girls live from each other?
(A) 10
(B) 35
(C) 50
(D) 70
(E) It cannot be determined from the
information given.

20. If, at a fundraising dinner, x guests each donate

$200 and y guests each donate $300, in terms
of x and y, what is the total number of dollars
raised?

(A) 250(x + y)

(B) 200x + 300y

(C) 250xy
xy
(D)
250
(E) 500xy

21. A rectangular fish tank with dimensions

2 feet × 3 feet × 4 feet is being filled by a hose
that produces 6 cubic feet of water per minute.
At this rate, how many minutes will it take to fill
the tank?
(A) 24
(B) 6
(C) 4
(D) 3
(E) 2

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22. With 4 days left in the Mountain Lake Critter USE THIS SPACE FOR FIGURING.
Collection Contest, Mary has caught 15 fewer
critters than Natalie. If Mary is to win the contest
by collecting more critters than Natalie, at least
how many critters per day must Mary catch?
(A) 4
(B) 5
(C) 16
(D) 30
(E) 46

23. If 3x – y = 23 and x is an integer greater than 0,

which of the following is NOT a possible value
for y ?
(A) 9
(B) 7
(C) 4
(D) 1
(E) –2

24. Adele, A, and Benjamin, B, are avid readers. If

Adele and Benjamin together read an average
of 200 pages in a day and Benjamin reads fewer
pages than Adele, which equation must be true?
(A) A – 200 = 200 – B
(B) A = 200 and B = 200
(C) A – B = 100
(D) A = 200 + B
(E) A + B = 200

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25. $30.00 is taken off the price of a dress. If the new
price is now 60% of the original price, what was
the original price of the dress?
(A) $75.00
(B) $60.00
(C) $50.00
(D) $45.00
(E) $30.00

STOP
IF YOU FINISH BEFORE TIME IS CALLED,
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Upper Level SSAT
Section 4
Time – 30 Minutes
25 Questions

Following each problem in this section, there are five suggested answers. Work each problem in your head
or in the blank space provided at the right of the page. Then look at the five suggested answers and decide
which one is best.
Note: Figures that accompany problems in this section are drawn as accurately as possible EXCEPT when
it is stated in a specific problem that its figure is not drawn to scale.
Sample Problem:

5,413 (A) 586

– 4,827 (B) 596
(C) 696
(D) 1,586
(E) 1,686 A B C D E

3
1. − = USE THIS SPACE FOR FIGURING.
2

9
(A)
4
81
(B)
16
12
(C) −
8
81
(D) −
16
4
(E)
9

2. x=
(A) 30
(B) 60
(C) 90 x° 60°
(D) 120
(E) 300

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3. If – 4 < x < 2, how many possible integer values USE THIS SPACE FOR FIGURING.
for x are there?
(A) 6
(B) 5
(C) 4
(D) 3
(E) 2

KameoÊs Savings Account Balance, 20182021

250
Dollars in Savings Account

200

150

100

50

0
2018 2019 2020 2021
Year

4. The decrease in Kameo’s account balance from

2020 to 2021 equals what percent of Kameo’s
account balance at the start of 2019 ?

(A) 100%
(B) 75%
2
(C) 66 %
3
(D) 50%
(E) 25%

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5. What is the sum of 125 + 45 ? ? USE THIS SPACE FOR FIGURING.

(A) 2 5
(B) 8 5
(C) 14 5
(D) 170
(E) 10 17

6. Nikhil is making a playlist. He has two K-pop

songs and four rap songs. He’s already decided
to make the K-pop songs first and last and put
the rap songs between them. How many different
arrangements of songs can he make in this way ?
(A) 6
(B) 8
(C) 24
(D) 48
(E) 720

7. A large square box is made up of smaller square

boxes. Each of these smaller boxes has a side
length of 3 inches. How many of these smaller
boxes are used to create the larger box if the
larger box’s base has a perimeter of 36 inches?
(A) 9
(B) 27
(C) 36
(D) 64
(E) 108

8. Calculate 10x – y2 when x = 4 and y = 5.

(A) 4
(B) 7
(C) 15
(D) 25
(E) 30

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9. Which of the following fractions is greatest? USE THIS SPACE FOR FIGURING.

3
(A)
4
5
(B)
8
1
(C)
2
3
(D)
7
5
(E)
9

10. If x + y = z, then z =
z°
(A) 180
(B) 90
(C) 60 y
(D) 45
(E) 30

x°

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11. Anita bowled a 100, a 120, and an 88 on her USE THIS SPACE FOR FIGURING.
first three games. What must her score be on the
fourth game to raise her average for the day to
a 130 ?
(A) 80

(B) 95
2
(C) 102
3
(D) 145

(E) 212

12. There are 35 girls and 24 boys in a club. One

quarter of the boys are wearing red shirts. Forty
percent of the girls are wearing yellow shirts.
How many more club members are wearing yel-
low shirts than red shirts?
(A) 1
(B) 3
(C) 8
(D) 9
(E) 12

13. 36 is 16 percent of
(A) 25
(B) 52
(C) 112
(D) 125
(E) 225

14. Mr. Patterson pays $1,200 each month for a stor-

age warehouse that measures 75 feet by 200 feet.
What is the monthly cost per square foot?
(A) $0.08
(B) $0.75
(C) $0.80
(D) $8.00
(E) $450.00

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15. The ratio of rhubarb plants to tomato plants in USE THIS SPACE FOR FIGURING.
Jim’s garden is 4 to 5. If there is a total of 45
rhubarb and tomato plants all together, how
many of these plants are rhubarb plants?
(A) 4
(B) 5
(C) 9
(D) 20
(E) 25

16. If m is a positive integer, and if 3 + 16 ÷ m is an

integer less than 19, which of the following must
be true of m ?
(A) m = 19
(B) m is even.
(C) m = 16
(D) m is a prime number.
(E) m is a multiple of four.

17. If an item that is discounted by 20% still costs

more than $28.00, the original price of the item
must be
(A) less than $3.50
(B) less than $7.00
(C) less than $35.00
(D) equal to $35.00
(E) more than $35.00

M
18. What is the perimeter of triangle MNO ?
(A) 3
(B) 9
(C) 18
(D) 27 6
(E) It cannot be determined from the
information given.

60° 60°
N O

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