Free Grade 5 NY State Test Practice Questions

Read this, then answer the questions about it.

[1] Coach Whitaker read out the relay order on Thursday, and Sam heard his own name in the third position and understood immediately that he had been demoted.

[2] Everybody knew the order. [3] The fastest runner goes last, because the last leg wins races. [4] The second fastest goes first, to get the team out ahead. [5] The third leg is where you put the runner you are least worried about losing ground with, and Sam had run the last leg at every meet since March.

[6] He waited until the others had gone before he said anything.

[7] "Did I do something?"

[8] Coach Whitaker was coiling a stopwatch cord around two fingers. [9] "You mean did you do something wrong."

[10] "Yes."

[11] "No." [12] She put the stopwatch in her pocket. [13] "What is the hardest part of a relay?"

[14] "Running fast."

[15] "Try again."

[16] Sam thought about it and got nowhere, and said so.

[17] "The exchanges," she said. [18] "Four runners, three exchanges. [19] You have twenty meters of a marked zone to pass a baton to somebody who is already moving and cannot see you. [20] Get it wrong and you are disqualified no matter how fast anybody ran." [21] She looked at him. [22] "How many batons have you dropped this season?"

[23] "None."

[24] "How many has anybody else on this team dropped?"

[25] Sam did the arithmetic and did not like where it led. [26] "Eleven," he said. [27] "Between them."

[28] "The third leg takes an exchange and gives an exchange. [29] It does both at full speed in the middle of a race, when everybody is tired and the crowd is loud. [30] It is the leg where teams lose." [31] She picked up her clipboard. [32] "I did not put you there to hide you. [33] I put you where the race is most likely to be thrown away."

[34] Sam stood in the empty gym for a while after she left.

[35] At the meet on Saturday he took the baton cleanly, ran his two hundred meters in a time nobody would remember, and handed it forward without either of them breaking stride. [36] The team won by four tenths of a second. [37] Afterward the anchor runner got his photograph taken with the medal, which is how relays work and which Sam had known before he ever joined one.

[38] On the bus his friend Devin asked whether it bothered him, not running last anymore.

[39] Sam thought about the twenty-meter zone and the four tenths of a second.

[40] "Ask me in June," he said.

Read this, then answer the questions about it.

[1] Coach Whitaker read out the relay order on Thursday, and Sam heard his own name in the third position and understood immediately that he had been demoted.

[2] Everybody knew the order. [3] The fastest runner goes last, because the last leg wins races. [4] The second fastest goes first, to get the team out ahead. [5] The third leg is where you put the runner you are least worried about losing ground with, and Sam had run the last leg at every meet since March.

[6] He waited until the others had gone before he said anything.

[7] "Did I do something?"

[8] Coach Whitaker was coiling a stopwatch cord around two fingers. [9] "You mean did you do something wrong."

[10] "Yes."

[11] "No." [12] She put the stopwatch in her pocket. [13] "What is the hardest part of a relay?"

[14] "Running fast."

[15] "Try again."

[16] Sam thought about it and got nowhere, and said so.

[17] "The exchanges," she said. [18] "Four runners, three exchanges. [19] You have twenty meters of a marked zone to pass a baton to somebody who is already moving and cannot see you. [20] Get it wrong and you are disqualified no matter how fast anybody ran." [21] She looked at him. [22] "How many batons have you dropped this season?"

[23] "None."

[24] "How many has anybody else on this team dropped?"

[25] Sam did the arithmetic and did not like where it led. [26] "Eleven," he said. [27] "Between them."

[28] "The third leg takes an exchange and gives an exchange. [29] It does both at full speed in the middle of a race, when everybody is tired and the crowd is loud. [30] It is the leg where teams lose." [31] She picked up her clipboard. [32] "I did not put you there to hide you. [33] I put you where the race is most likely to be thrown away."

[34] Sam stood in the empty gym for a while after she left.

[35] At the meet on Saturday he took the baton cleanly, ran his two hundred meters in a time nobody would remember, and handed it forward without either of them breaking stride. [36] The team won by four tenths of a second. [37] Afterward the anchor runner got his photograph taken with the medal, which is how relays work and which Sam had known before he ever joined one.

[38] On the bus his friend Devin asked whether it bothered him, not running last anymore.

[39] Sam thought about the twenty-meter zone and the four tenths of a second.

[40] "Ask me in June," he said.

Read this, then answer the questions about it.

[1] Coach Whitaker read out the relay order on Thursday, and Sam heard his own name in the third position and understood immediately that he had been demoted.

[2] Everybody knew the order. [3] The fastest runner goes last, because the last leg wins races. [4] The second fastest goes first, to get the team out ahead. [5] The third leg is where you put the runner you are least worried about losing ground with, and Sam had run the last leg at every meet since March.

[6] He waited until the others had gone before he said anything.

[7] "Did I do something?"

[8] Coach Whitaker was coiling a stopwatch cord around two fingers. [9] "You mean did you do something wrong."

[10] "Yes."

[11] "No." [12] She put the stopwatch in her pocket. [13] "What is the hardest part of a relay?"

[14] "Running fast."

[15] "Try again."

[16] Sam thought about it and got nowhere, and said so.

[17] "The exchanges," she said. [18] "Four runners, three exchanges. [19] You have twenty meters of a marked zone to pass a baton to somebody who is already moving and cannot see you. [20] Get it wrong and you are disqualified no matter how fast anybody ran." [21] She looked at him. [22] "How many batons have you dropped this season?"

[23] "None."

[24] "How many has anybody else on this team dropped?"

[25] Sam did the arithmetic and did not like where it led. [26] "Eleven," he said. [27] "Between them."

[28] "The third leg takes an exchange and gives an exchange. [29] It does both at full speed in the middle of a race, when everybody is tired and the crowd is loud. [30] It is the leg where teams lose." [31] She picked up her clipboard. [32] "I did not put you there to hide you. [33] I put you where the race is most likely to be thrown away."

[34] Sam stood in the empty gym for a while after she left.

[35] At the meet on Saturday he took the baton cleanly, ran his two hundred meters in a time nobody would remember, and handed it forward without either of them breaking stride. [36] The team won by four tenths of a second. [37] Afterward the anchor runner got his photograph taken with the medal, which is how relays work and which Sam had known before he ever joined one.

[38] On the bus his friend Devin asked whether it bothered him, not running last anymore.

[39] Sam thought about the twenty-meter zone and the four tenths of a second.

[40] "Ask me in June," he said.