Free CLT Practice Test 2025 [NEW QUESTIONS]

Free CLT Practice Test 2025 [NEW QUESTIONS]: Prepare for the 2025 CLT Classic Learning Test (CLT) with our free practice test featuring new questions and answers. Boost your score and confidence by starting your preparation today!

CLT Math Practice Test [Timed]

About Test

Classic Learning Initiatives (CLI) launched in December 2015 as a long-awaited alternative to the SAT and ACT. As of July 2021, more than fifty thousand students at schools across the United States have taken an exam from the CLT suite of assessments, and over two hundred colleges and universities have adopted the CLT as an admissions test.

The CLT is a different kind of standardized college entrance exam. It aims to improve students’ test-taking experience and motivate positive assessment and education changes. CLI launched the CLT8 in 2018. Modeled after the CLT, the CLT8 is a formative and summative assessment for 7th and 8th-grade students.

It is used by homeschool families, private schools, and charter schools to evaluate student performance at the beginning and end of the school year. In-depth analytics allow educators to identify student abilities and support curriculum decisions. The CLT8 is offered as part of a suite, including the CLT10 for 9th and 10th-grade students and the CLT college admission exam.

Test Format

The CLT is administered in two modes: online and with paper and pencil. The test is primarily administered online through http://cltexam.com, occasionally with paper and pencil. The latter is only available for in-school testing and may be obtained at the school’s special request.

The CLT is designed for simplicity and balance. Each of the three sections has forty (40) questions. Each Verbal Reasoning and Grammar/Writing section has exactly four (4) reading passages, and each passage has precisely ten (10) questions. Knowing what to expect frees students from anxieties that can come from a less regular test design.

Each section loads into a single browser window so that students can scroll to any part of that section without changing pages. A percentage progress bar is provided at the top of the page, giving students a visual sense of their progress on the exam.

The CLT has a balanced distribution of subject categories. On every test, out of eight reading passages, two (25%) are in Philosophy/Religion; one (12.5%) of the passages is drawn from Literature; two (25%) are in Science; one (12.5%) is an excerpt from Historical/Founding Documents; one (12.5%) is a Historical Profile; and one (12.5%) is drawn from Modern/Influential Thinkers.

Test Outlines

A. Verbal Reasoning

The Verbal Reasoning section tests students’ ability to understand and analyze a text. Students are asked to interact with various passages on different subjects, and their ability to comprehend the text and synthesize ideas within it is tested. They must be able to understand concepts such as how different phrases and words are used in context, the author’s purpose in a particular section or the passage overall, how a text is structured, and what could be reasonably inferred based on the information in the text.

Multiple-choice questions
Number of questions: 40
Time Limit: 45 Minutes

B. Grammar/Writing

Second, instead of most reading passages from contemporary sources, the CLT8’s two English sections primarily use selections from classic authors who have shaped history, literature, and philosophy in foundational ways through the centuries.

Multiple-choice questions
Number of questions: 40
Time Limit: 35 Minutes

C. Quantitative Reasoning

Third, the Quantitative Reasoning section assesses students’ problem-solving ability and logical and orderly thinking. The test focuses more on evaluating mathematical reasoning capacity than on testing specific mathematical skills or knowledge.

1. Algebra (10 questions)

2. Geometry (14 questions)

3. Mathematical Reasoning (16 questions)

Multiple-choice questions
Number of questions: 40
Time Limit: 50 Minutes

Test Scores

CLT8 scores are released on Tuesday following the last day of test administration for students taking the test online (at home or in school). Scores are released within 30 days for paper test students. To see their scores, all students, whether in-school online or paper or at home online, log into their student accounts on cltexam.com.

School administrators can see the scores of the students whose names and user IDs they uploaded, as well as advanced analytics and metrics on how those students performed. Schools see this through their CLT8 school administrator account. Only persons CLI knows to work at the school in question (usually the school administrator role) are granted access to this account. Support from CLI is available for school administrators, teachers, and parents to analyze the data provided through the CLT8 Analytics.