PISA Practice Test 2026

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The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a school assessment examination administered in International 🌍. It is designed to assess candidates' knowledge and proficiency across 3 key subject areas including Reading, Mathematics, Science. This exam is widely recognized as an essential benchmark for students and professionals.

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8 free PISA practice questions (2026)

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1. Text: 'The municipal GreenWheels bike-sharing scheme begins next month. Users must download the app and register with a valid credit card. The first 30 minutes of every ride are free. After that, a charge of $2 per hour applies. While helmets are highly recommended for safety, they are not provided by the scheme.' Why does the text state that 'helmets are highly recommended... but they are not provided'?

   • To encourage riders to buy helmets from local shops.
   • To clarify that safety is the rider's responsibility, not the scheme's.
   • To explain why the first 30 minutes of the ride are free.
   • To warn riders that they will be fined if they ride without a helmet.
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   Answer: B. To clarify that safety is the rider's responsibility, not the scheme's.

   The text explicitly mentions that helmets are recommended for safety but not provided, implying that users are responsible for sourcing their own protective gear and ensuring their own safety while using the municipal bikes.

   Topic: Reading · medium

2. Text from an online forum: User A: 'Cultivated (lab-grown) meat is the future of food. It uses 90% less land and water than traditional livestock farming, generates zero methane, and causes no animal suffering.' User B: 'While the ethics are clear, the physics are not. Producing meat in bioreactors requires massive, continuous inputs of electricity. Unless our entire energy grid is 100% renewable, we are just trading farm emissions for factory emissions.' On which of the following points do User A and User B disagree?

   • Whether traditional farming causes animal suffering.
   • Whether cultivated meat has a lower environmental impact than livestock farming.
   • Whether cultivated meat requires water and land to produce.
   • Whether the global energy grid should transition to renewable sources.
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   Answer: B. Whether cultivated meat has a lower environmental impact than livestock farming.

   User A argues that cultivated meat is environmentally friendly (generating zero methane, using less land/water). User B challenges this by pointing out the high electricity use of bioreactors, suggesting that it might not actually reduce overall emissions compared to traditional farming unless the grid is fully renewable.

   Topic: Reading · hard

3. Text: 'While global surface temperatures have risen by an average of 1.1°C since 1880, some localized regions have experienced brief cooling trends due to aerosol pollution reflecting sunlight. However, these regional anomalies are merely masks hiding the overarching, inexorable global warming trend.' What is the author's purpose in using the word 'masks' in this context?

   • To suggest that the localized cooling trends are deceptive and temporary.
   • To prove that scientists are trying to hide data from the public.
   • To argue that air pollution is actually beneficial for global temperatures.
   • To illustrate how geography protects certain regions from climate change.
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   Answer: A. To suggest that the localized cooling trends are deceptive and temporary.

   The author uses 'masks' to indicate that the regional cooling is a temporary cover or illusion that obscures the true, larger reality of continuous global warming.

   Topic: Reading · medium

4. Text: 'To: All Staff Subject: North Elevator Maintenance Starting Monday at 8:00 AM, the north elevator will be closed for routine maintenance. The work is scheduled to last until Thursday evening. Please use the south elevator or the central staircase. We expect longer waiting times during lunch hours and appreciate your patience.' What is the primary purpose of this email?

   • To persuade staff to use the stairs for physical exercise.
   • To inform employees of a temporary disruption and offer alternatives.
   • To explain the technical reasons behind the elevator maintenance.
   • To apologize for the poor design of the office building.
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   Answer: B. To inform employees of a temporary disruption and offer alternatives.

   The email directly states that the north elevator will be closed, indicates the duration of the maintenance, and provides alternative routes (south elevator, central staircase) to manage the temporary disruption.

   Topic: Reading · easy

5. Text: 'A report on municipal waste management in City X shows that over the past decade, recycling rates grew from 10% to 45%, while landfill disposal decreased from 80% to 35%. Waste-to-energy incineration remained steady at exactly 20% throughout the entire decade.' Based on this text, what can be logically concluded about the total physical weight of waste sent to landfills?

   • It has definitely decreased by exactly 45%.
   • It has decreased, but only if the total amount of waste generated remained the same or did not grow excessively.
   • It remained exactly the same because incineration rates did not change.
   • It has increased because recycling rates became higher.
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   Answer: B. It has decreased, but only if the total amount of waste generated remained the same or did not grow excessively.

   The percentages indicate proportions of the total waste, not absolute quantities. If the total amount of waste generated by the city grew dramatically over the decade, a 35% share of waste today could theoretically represent a larger absolute physical weight than 80% did ten years ago.

   Topic: Reading · hard

6. Text: 'The author's prose is as sharp as a scalpel, dissecting the political landscape of the 1920s with clinical precision. Yet, this very precision is double-edged; it leaves the characters feeling more like cold specimens on a lab table than living, breathing humans with whom the reader can empathize.' Which word best describes the reviewer's overall attitude toward the author's writing style?

   • Unqualified admiration
   • Complete hostility
   • Ambivalent appreciation
   • Indifferent neutrality
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   Answer: C. Ambivalent appreciation

   The reviewer uses a positive comparison ('sharp as a scalpel', 'precision') but immediately balances it with a significant criticism ('leaves the characters feeling cold'). This mixed reaction represents 'ambivalent appreciation'.

   Topic: Reading · medium

7. Text: 'If you suspect carbon monoxide (CO) exposure in your home: 1. Immediately move all household members and pets outside to fresh air. 2. Call emergency services from outside the home. 3. Do not re-enter the premises until safety officials have declared it safe to do so.' According to the safety advisory, what is the first action you should take if you suspect CO exposure?

   • Open all the windows inside the house.
   • Call emergency services from your kitchen phone.
   • Evacuate everyone, including pets, to fresh air.
   • Turn off the heating and gas systems.
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   Answer: C. Evacuate everyone, including pets, to fresh air.

   The guide explicitly outlines step 1: 'Immediately move all household members and pets outside to fresh air' before taking any other action, such as calling emergency services.

   Topic: Reading · easy

8. Text: Excerpt from an 1840 letter by a factory worker: 'The iron machines never tire, nor do they weep. But they make us old before our time. Even our children look like pale ghosts in the morning light, marching to the whistle. We have swapped the seasons of the field for the ticking of the clock.' What is the writer's primary message about the impact of industrialization?

   • It has made farming more efficient by introducing modern clocks.
   • It has severely degraded the physical and social well-being of the working class.
   • It has allowed children to earn an honest living in clean conditions.
   • It has successfully eliminated the exhausting physical labor of farm life.
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   Answer: B. It has severely degraded the physical and social well-being of the working class.

   The text employs somber imagery ('make us old before our time', 'children look like pale ghosts', 'marching to the whistle') to convey the damaging, dehumanizing effects of factory life on workers and their families.

   Topic: Reading · hard

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