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Free HSPT Verbal Diagnostic Tests

Take the Varsity Learning Tools free diagnostic test for HSPT Verbal to determine which academic concepts you understand and which ones require your ongoing attention. Each HSPT Verbal problem is tagged down to the core, underlying concept that is being tested. The HSPT Verbal diagnostic test results highlight how you performed on each area of the test. You can then utilize the results to create a personalized study plan that is based on your particular area of need.

HSPT Verbal Diagnostic Test 1

Questions: 50
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 6 hrs 57 mins

HSPT Verbal Diagnostic Test 2

Questions: 50
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 4 hrs 48 mins

HSPT Verbal Diagnostic Test 3

Questions: 50
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 4 hrs 16 mins

HSPT Verbal Diagnostic Test 4

Questions: 50
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 5 hrs 1 mins

HSPT Verbal Diagnostic Test 5

Questions: 50
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 13 hrs 19 mins

HSPT Verbal Diagnostic Test 6

Questions: 50
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 5 hrs 5 mins

HSPT Verbal Diagnostic Test 7

Questions: 50
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 12 hrs 49 mins

HSPT Verbal Diagnostic Test 8

Questions: 50
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 2 hrs 52 mins

Taking the HSPT? Not sure what to expect on the Verbal section? After walking through each of the section’s question types and finding out about some great free resources you can use to study each one, you should feel a lot more prepared to conquer it.

The first question type that the HSPT Verbal section features is Antonyms. These questions present a word and then prompt you to select the answer choice that is the given word’s antonym, or opposite. Similar to this question type is the test’s Synonym questions, which present a word and ask you to pick out the answer choice that is its closest synonym—that is, closest in meaning to it. You can study for both of these question types by expanding your vocabulary. Varsity Tutors’ free HSPT Verbal Practice Tests can help you do this by asking you practice problems similar to the Synonym and Antonym questions you’ll encounter on the HSPT. Each Practice Test consists of about a dozen question, and you get to see detailed performance results each time you finish one. If you miss a question, check out the full explanation included with each question; it includes definitions of the word in question as well as answer choice words. Given this, reading over the explanations for each question, even for those that you answered correctly, can help you learn new words in preparation for the HSPT’s Verbal section.

The HSPT Verbal section isn’t just made up of Synonym questions and Antonym questions, however; it also features three other types of questions that test your verbal logic: Analogies; Logic Questions; and Verbal Classifications. Analogy questions present two words that are somehow related and either provide you with a third word and ask you to pick out a fourth word from the given answer choices that is related to the third word in the same way that the second word is related to the first, or, it asks you to pick out a pair of words that also have the same relationship as the first and second words. Let’s look at an example problem: say that you were prompted with the question “Note is to music as word is to __________.” The correct answer would be something like “sentence,” as just as notes are the component parts of music, words are the component parts of sentences. The question might also have been formatted as “Note is to music as __________”; in this case, the correct answer choice would have been something like “word is to sentence.” If the phrasing of analogies strikes you as somewhat strange, you’re not alone; it can be difficult to focus on finding the correct answer to Analogy questions if you’ve never answered any before, so it’s important to familiarize with the conventions of this kind of problem before test day. Varsity Tutors’ HSPT Verbal Practice Problems are organized by concept, so you can choose to focus on practicing a single type of problem, like Analogies. This will ensure that you are used to the question type before you encounter it on the HSPT, which can give you a definite advantage over students who have never answered analogy questions before.

Like Analogy questions, Verbal Classification questions also test your ability to think about the ways in which words relate to one another. Whereas Analogy questions ask you to pick out the single answer choice which completes a relationship given between the words in the question prompt, Verbal Classifications present you with answer choices and ask you to figure out the relationship that exists between all of them but one. Your job is to pick out the answer choice that does not belong to the category represented by all of the other answer choices. So, for example, if your answer choices were “rose,” “pine,” “aspen,” “maple,” and “oak,” “rose” would be the correct answer, because while a rose is a kind of flower, pines, aspens, maples, and oaks are all kinds of trees, not flowers. Verbal logic of the kind that Verbal Classification questions test can be a difficult thing to practice without the right resources, but Varsity Tutors’ Practice Tests will let you improve your ability to spot these associations between words and answer these questions without wasting too much time on the HSPT’s Verbal section.

The final kind of question that is featured on the HSPT’s Verbal section is Logic questions. Logic questions test your ability to understand logical statements, and to some, may appear to be the most straightforward of the five question types on the Verbal section of the HSPT. Here’s an example Logic problem so that you can get an idea of what you’re up against:

Some professors are interesting people. All interesting people are good conversationalists. Peter is a good conversationalist. Which of the following is true?

Peter is an interesting person.

Peter might be a professor.

Peter cannot be a professor.

None of the other answers.

The correct answer to this question is “Peter might be a professor.” It may help you to develop a strategy of drawing out the relationships between the different groups, people, and things involved in a logic problem, and you can establish a method of answering these questions by practicing them using Varsity Tutors’ free HSPT Verbal Practice Tests.

You have the ability to increase the efficacy of your study sessions by taking a Full-Length HSPT Verbal Practice Test. These free online tests will ask a wide range of questions that use all of the concepts you’ll need to know on the real exam. The extended testing format offers you the chance to evaluate your speed and practice using your skills under pressure. Just like the results pages for the concept-specific practice tests, each of the results pages for the full-length practice tests gives you helpful information, like links to in-depth concept review and detailed explanations of each answer. These free online HSPT practice tests can also guide you in assembling a personalized study plan by informing you of the topics in which you might need more review. The other convenient resources available through Varsity Tutors’ Learning Tools can help you as you study, too. When you’re ready, you can take another free Full-Length HSPT Verbal Practice Test to measure your progress.

While facing five different types of questions on a single section of the HSPT may appear intimidating, using Varsity Tutors’ free HSPT resources to methodically practice each one until you are both familiar with its conventions and comfortable answering questions of that type will greatly benefit you on the day of the exam.

 

Free HSPT Verbal Practice Tests

Our completely free HSPT Verbal practice tests are the perfect way to brush up your skills. Take one of our many HSPT Verbal practice tests for a run-through of commonly asked questions. You will receive incredibly detailed scoring results at the end of your HSPT Verbal practice test to help you identify your strengths and weaknesses. Pick one of our HSPT Verbal practice tests now and begin!

Practice Tests by Concept

Analogy practice test

Questions: 40
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 2 hrs 14 mins

Analogies: determining meaning from prefixes, suffixes, and roots practice test

Questions: 10
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 1 hrs 8 mins

Analogies: prefixes practice test

Questions: 6
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 1 hrs 0 mins

Analogies: prefixes from anglo-saxon practice test

Questions: 1
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 14 secs

Analogies: prefixes from latin practice test

Questions: 5
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 33 mins

Analogies: roots practice test

Questions: 4
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 39 mins

Analogies: roots from greek practice test

Questions: 2
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 30 secs

Analogies: roots from latin practice test

Questions: 2
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 34 secs

Analogies: determining meaning from type of relationship practice test

Questions: 10
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 2 hrs 4 mins

Measurement, storage, location, and material composition practice test

Questions: 26
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 2 hrs 57 mins

Location, time, or context practice test

Questions: 26
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 10 mins

Material composition practice test

Questions: 5
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 9 mins

Storage and containers practice test

Questions: 5
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 1 mins 18 secs

Part/whole, part/part, example/category, and cause/effect practice test

Questions: 32
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 19 mins

Cause and effect practice test

Questions: 4
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 2 mins 4 secs

Example and category practice test

Questions: 40
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 1 hrs 33 mins

Part and part practice test

Questions: 5
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 3 mins

Part and whole practice test

Questions: 32
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 20 mins

Qualities, abilities, and other analogies practice test

Questions: 26
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 8 mins

Abilities practice test

Questions: 3
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 57 secs

Other analogies practice test

Questions: 2
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 1 mins 1 secs

Qualities practice test

Questions: 26
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 6 mins

Specific terminology practice test

Questions: 5
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 5 mins

Other specific terminology practice test

Questions: 5
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 56 secs

Synonyms, antonyms, and changes in intensity practice test

Questions: 33
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 1 hrs 1 mins

Antonyms practice test

Questions: 40
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 5 mins

Changes in intensity practice test

Questions: 33
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 6 mins

Synonyms practice test

Questions: 40
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 3 mins

Tool/use, user/tool, actor/action, product/producer, subject/object practice test

Questions: 10
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 10 hrs 32 mins

Actor and action practice test

Questions: 12
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 3 mins

Product and producer practice test

Questions: 12
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 2 mins 42 secs

Subject and object practice test

Questions: 3
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 55 secs

Tool and use practice test

Questions: 10
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 1 hrs 6 mins

User and tool practice test

Questions: 3
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 1 mins 1 secs

Antonyms practice test

Questions: 40
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 4 hrs 19 mins

Antonyms: adjectives and adverbs practice test

Questions: 11
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 3 mins

Antonyms: adjectives describing appearance, materiality, and sensory imagery practice test

Questions: 2
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 29 secs

Antonyms: adjectives describing authenticity, truth, existence, and understanding practice test

Questions: 3
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 40 secs

Antonyms: adjectives describing complexity, power, and importance practice test

Questions: 3
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 49 secs

Antonyms: adjectives describing emotional states practice test

Questions: 4
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 46 secs

Antonyms: adjectives describing location, context, order, and direction practice test

Questions: 4
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 56 secs

Antonyms: adjectives describing personality traits practice test

Questions: 6
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 14 mins

Antonyms: adjectives describing quality, value, and rarity practice test

Questions: 5
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 13 mins

Antonyms: adjectives describing quantity, variety, regularity, and size practice test

Questions: 2
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 24 secs

Antonyms: adjectives describing time, timing, speed, movement, and age practice test

Questions: 5
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 1 mins 31 secs

Antonyms: adverbs practice test

Questions: 8
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 2 mins 3 secs

Antonyms: other adjectives practice test

Questions: 5
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 53 secs

Antonyms: nouns practice test

Questions: 13
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 2 mins 51 secs

Antonyms: nouns for abstract concepts practice test

Questions: 7
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 2 mins 56 secs

Antonyms: nouns for people practice test

Questions: 3
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 1 mins 1 secs

Antonyms: nouns for tangible things practice test

Questions: 3
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 24 secs

Antonyms: verbs practice test

Questions: 3
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 42 secs

Antonyms: other verbs practice test

Questions: 6
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 20 mins

Antonyms: verbs about communicating, arguing, and understanding practice test

Questions: 6
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 1 mins 41 secs

Antonyms: verbs about emotional changes practice test

Questions: 6
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 1 mins 24 secs

Antonyms: verbs about existence, ownership, and quantities practice test

Questions: 2
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 26 secs

Antonyms: verbs about physical changes, movement, or location practice test

Questions: 13
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 2 mins 58 secs

Antonyms: verbs about rules, decisions, and progress practice test

Questions: 3
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 32 secs

Logic practice test

Questions: 40
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 2 hrs 32 mins

Determining whether a statement is true, false, or uncertain practice test

Questions: 40
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 1 hrs 15 mins

Drawing logical conclusions practice test

Questions: 36
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 2 hrs 14 mins

Synonyms practice test

Questions: 15
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 1 hrs 14 mins

Synonyms: adjectives and adverbs practice test

Questions: 12
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 4 mins

Synonyms: adjectives describing appearance, materiality, and sensory imagery practice test

Questions: 3
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 37 secs

Synonyms: adjectives describing authenticity, truth, existence, and understanding practice test

Questions: 4
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 47 secs

Synonyms: adjectives describing complexity, power, and importance practice test

Questions: 1
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 15 secs

Synonyms: adjectives describing emotional states practice test

Questions: 2
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 20 secs

Synonyms: adjectives describing location, context, order, and direction practice test

Questions: 5
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 2 d 21 hrs

Synonyms: adjectives describing personality traits practice test

Questions: 3
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 40 secs

Synonyms: other adjectives practice test

Questions: 1
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 13 secs

Synonyms: nouns practice test

Questions: 22
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 9 mins

Synonyms: nouns for abstract concepts practice test

Questions: 6
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 1 mins 31 secs

Synonyms: nouns for people practice test

Questions: 7
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 1 mins 19 secs

Synonyms: nouns for tangible things practice test

Questions: 9
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 1 mins 4 secs

Synonyms: verbs practice test

Questions: 20
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 5 mins

Synonyms: verbs about communicating, arguing, and understanding practice test

Questions: 11
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 1 mins 52 secs

Synonyms: verbs about emotional changes practice test

Questions: 4
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 26 mins

Synonyms: verbs about physical changes, movement, or location practice test

Questions: 5
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 59 secs

Synonyms: verbs about rules, decisions, and progress practice test

Questions: 1
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 18 secs

Verbal classifications practice test

Questions: 40
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 1 hrs 21 mins

Verbal classifications: adjectives and adverbs practice test

Questions: 40
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 8 mins

Verbal classifications: multiple or other parts of speech practice test

Questions: 22
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 1 hrs 4 mins

Verbal classifications: nouns practice test

Questions: 27
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 17 mins

Verbal classifications: verbs practice test

Questions: 18
Test Difficulty:
Average Time Spent: 6 hrs 27 mins
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