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4 real features of the test runner, worth knowing before your first attempt
Beyond the questions themselves, the runner has a few built-in tools worth knowing about before your first attempt — how you move around, how you check your progress, and how Practice mode differs from Test mode.
Passage-level navigation, with a live answered count
You move between the 3 passages with Previous, Next, or a clickable page number for each one — there’s no jump-to-question feature, since all of a passage’s questions sit alongside it. A progress bar at the top tracks your live answered count, reading something like “14 / 40 answered,” updating the instant you type into a blank or pick an answer.
The Dictionary — look up any word, mid-test
A Dictionary button sits right in the runner’s header, letting you look up any word without leaving the test. It’s there for genuine vocabulary gaps — a word in the passage you don’t know — not for finding an answer, since the answers themselves are never phrased in a way a dictionary lookup would hand to you directly.
Practice mode: a flip-card check, right after each passage
In Practice mode, a “Check answers” button grades just the passage you’re currently on and flips the passage card over — the back face shows your answers marked directly against the text, right where the evidence for each one actually sits, while it’s still fresh in your mind. In Test mode, nothing is revealed until you submit the whole test; every passage is graded together, all at once, at the very end.
Exit and submit both ask you first
Try to leave a test early and you’ll see: “Leave this test? Your answers will not be saved.” — a real warning, since nothing is saved until you actually submit. And if you hit Submit with blanks still empty, it asks first too: “You’ve answered 27 of 40 questions. Submit anyway?” — using your real live count, so you always get one last chance to go back and fill in what you skipped.
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4 runner features worth knowing