Free Iowa Assessments (ITBS) practice test — Grade 7
10 original Iowa Assessments (ITBS)-style questions for Grade 7, with answers and full explanations. No signup needed.
These free Iowa Assessments™ (ITBS) practice questions match the formats your child will actually see — picture-based vocabulary, listening, and word analysis at K–2, and reading, language, and math through grade 8.
Every question is original with a full explanation. Younger levels mirror the real test's three-choice picture format; upper levels use the four-choice format with 'No mistakes' language items.
The rovers that explore Mars are often called robot geologists, and the nickname is earned. Like a field scientist, a rover studies layers of rock to read the planet's history. When one drilled into a dry lakebed and found clay that forms only in calm, fresh water, scientists concluded that Mars was once far friendlier to life than it is today. A rover's day is planned to the minute by engineers on Earth, yet the machine must handle surprises alone: a signal takes many minutes to cross the distance between the planets, so no one can steer a rover around a rock in real time. Each evening, the rover reports what it found; each night, humans write tomorrow's plan.
Rovers are called robot geologists because they —
- Acollect plants from the surface
- Bstudy rock layers to learn the planet's history
- Crepair satellites in orbit
- Ddig tunnels for future astronauts
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Correct answer: B
The passage draws the comparison to field scientists — B. The other choices are not supported by the passage.
- AEnergy is only made by machines.
- BEnergy is a kind of matter.
- CEnergy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed.
- DEnergy always disappears.
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Correct answer: C
The correct answer is: Energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed.. The other choices do not correctly answer the question.
689 ÷ 13 = ?
- A53
- B52
- C55
- D54
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Correct answer: A
689 ÷ 13 = 53 (A). The other choices come from common slips: dropped carries or borrows, place-value slides, and off-by-one counting.
Use the graph to answer: How many MORE for Ana than Ben?
- A5
- B14
- C4
- D3
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Correct answer: C
Read each bar against the scale: Ana = 9, Ben = 5, Cole = 10, Dara = 6. So the answer is 4 — C.
the mountain's summit
Summit means about the same as —
- Ashadow
- Bbase
- Chighest point
- Dtrail
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Correct answer: C
"summit" means highest point — C. The other words describe things that might fit the scene, but none means "summit".
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Start free diagnosticWhich word is spelled wrong?
- Arestaurant
- Bembarrass
- Cbeginning
- Doccured
- E(No mistakes)
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Correct answer: D
"occured" is wrong; the correct spelling is "occurred" (D).
Which line has a mistake in capitalization or punctuation?
- AMy parrot loves to chase
- Ba ball around the yard
- Cuntil the sun goes down
- Dand dinner is ready
- E(No mistakes)
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Correct answer: D
Line D has the mistake: a sentence must end with the correct end mark. It should read "and dinner is ready.".
A coral reef looks like colorful stone, but it is actually a city of tiny animals called polyps. Each polyp builds a hard cup of limestone around its soft body, and millions of these cups, stacked over centuries, form the reef. The polyps have partners: microscopic algae live inside their tissues, turning sunlight into food that the polyps share. The algae also give coral its brilliant colors. When ocean water grows too warm, the stressed polyps expel their algae. The reef turns bone white — an event called bleaching — and the polyps begin to starve. If the water cools in time, algae return and the city recovers; if not, the reef dies, and the thousands of fish species that shelter there lose their home.
A coral reef is really —
- Athe limestone homes of millions of tiny animals
- Ba pile of empty seashells
- Cstone carved by ocean waves
- Da kind of colorful underwater plant
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Correct answer: A
Polyps build limestone cups — A. The other choices are not supported by the passage.
- Aa weather pattern
- Bthe body maintaining stable internal conditions
- Ca plant disease
- Da type of rock formation
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Correct answer: B
The correct answer is: the body maintaining stable internal conditions. The other choices do not correctly answer the question.
792 ÷ 12 = ?
- A67
- B65
- C56
- D66
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Correct answer: D
792 ÷ 12 = 66 (D). The other choices come from common slips: dropped carries or borrows, place-value slides, and off-by-one counting.
Iowa Assessments (ITBS) FAQ
What does the Iowa Assessments test?
Depending on level: Vocabulary, Word Analysis, Listening, Reading, Language, and Mathematics — with Science and Social Studies joining from grade 1 and Computation at grades 3+.
Is the ITBS the same as the Iowa Assessments?
Yes — the Iowa Test of Basic Skills was renamed the Iowa Assessments (Form E and later). Schools use both names for the same battery.
What is a good Iowa Assessments score?
Scores are reported as national percentile ranks; many schools flag the 90th+ percentile for advanced programs, but each school sets its own bar.
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