Practice passages for Latin SAT?

Question

I'm helping a student prepare for the SAT Latin subject test, which includes a short reading passage followed by multiple-choice questions. It would be useful to have a few sample passages that we can go over for practice, either from the SAT itself or passages of similar length and level. Is there a good online source for this?

For those unfamiliar with the SAT Latin test, below are the sample passage and questions from the student guide. It would be great to find passages with practice questions, but just some online practice passages that we can read through together would be helpful too.

Answer 1

The National Latin Exam includes very similar types of multiple-choice comprehension questions linked to a short passage in Latin. Some years' worth of past exams are available for free online. I once used these when I was helping a student prepare for the Latin SAT.

The following example shows part of the relevant section of the Latin III–IV Prose exam from 2013.

Answer 2

The level and question style won't match perfectly, but you could still benefit from using English/Welsh GCSE/AS/A-Level past papers:

GCSE for example available here. The GCSE grade system switched in 2016 (from A*–E to 9–1), so you will find that papers before the change are structured differently but at a similar level.

The paper you want is the Language paper (on the page I linked, you can find one under 'Sample Assessment Materials', many under 'Withdrawn Qualification Materials', and another under 'Question papers, markschemes and reports > 2018').

AS/A-Level for example available here. AS is a lower qualification than A-Level, although I don't know how the differences manifest at the level of prose comprehension. The AS paper you want is the Language paper; the A-Level paper you want is 'Prose composition or comprehension'.

(The connection between AS and A-Levels has changed in the last few years; previously students typically took AS exams after one year and A2/A-Level exams after a second year which would combine to form an A-Level qualification. Now the A-Level is a continuous two-year course, with the AS an independent course of roughly half the volume.)

You could always use the passages and make your own questions if the style isn't quite right. I'd be interested to hear how the level compares between the SAT and these qualifications.