Digital SAT QAS Breakdown: December 2025 Test (12B) — The International English Companion
Last updated: September 2026 · By the AllSatPapers Content Team
Where Form 12A preserves the December 2025 International exam's math section, Form 12B preserves its other half: 243 pages of Bluebook screen captures covering Reading & Writing Module 1 and a Module 2 whose header reads "Module 2 – Hard" — direct on-screen proof that these captures include the harder adaptive route. The two-panel layout is intact throughout (passage on the left, question on the right), with the occasional photocopied-and-rescanned page you'd expect from a document this long.
Those 243 pages are generous — a single administration's Reading & Writing section runs 54 questions — so the file appears to preserve more than one run or route through the English modules, with the Hard route confirmed by the header itself. There is no included answer key, but student selections are marked in the captures, and our team audited samples from across the file: every audited selection checked out. Here's what's inside, what it shares with the rest of December, and how to use it.
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What's Inside the 12B File?
| Test date | December 2025 (International digital administration) |
| Format | 243 pages of Bluebook screen captures; two-panel layout (passage left, question right); some pages photocopied/rescanned |
| Section 1 | Reading & Writing — Module 1 (27 questions) plus Module 2 captures headed "Module 2 – Hard" (hard adaptive route directly observed) |
| Section 2 | Not included in this file (see Form 12A for the International Math captures) |
| Total questions | R&W captures spanning Module 1 and Module 2 — 243 pages suggests more than one run/route is preserved |
| Answer keys | None included — student selections marked in the captures; samples audited by our team below |
One honesty note up front: because 12B is image-only, our text-parsing engine can't index it, so no machine-generated overlap percentages exist for this form. Every cross-form link we describe below was verified by eye against the parsed text of the other December documents.
Sample Questions — With Capture-Marked Answers
Reading & Writing, Module 1, Q1 — Tom Sawyer's Fence
The following text is from Mark Twain's 1876 novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Tom, a child, has been told by his aunt to paint their house's fence. "Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him…" As used in the text, what does the word "surveyed" most nearly mean?
Choice C — "Examined" — is marked, and it's correct. Tom isn't organizing, modifying, or guaranteeing the fence; he's taking the measure of thirty yards of misery. This item is also a cross-form anchor: the same Tom Sawyer question appears in the US Form 12D (R&W Module 1, Q22 — where "Examined" sits at choice A) and again inside the 12F question bank. One item, three December documents, two administrations — the December pool in miniature.
Reading & Writing, Module 1, Q6 — Rachel Heng's The Great Reclamation
The following text is adapted from Rachel Heng's 2023 novel The Great Reclamation. The passage contains three underlined portions. Which choice best describes the function of the underlined portions in the text as a whole?
Choice A is marked, and it correctly tracks what the underlined sentences accomplish together. Two things are worth a student's attention here. First, the literary range: Module 1 opens with Twain (1876) and, six questions later, lands on Heng (2023) — a 147-year span inside a single module, so calibrate your reading for both registers. Second, the task type: "function of the underlined portion(s)" questions are pure structure work. Don't re-read the passage hunting for meaning; ask what job each sentence does for the argument.
Reading & Writing, Module 2 (Hard Route), Q20 — The Timbuktu Grammar Item
The passage discusses the manuscripts of Timbuktu, ending with a construction of the form "…each of which ______ researchers insight into…" Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
Choice D — "offers" — is marked, and it's correct. The trap is proximity: the plural noun sitting next to the blank begs for a plural verb, but the true subject is "each," which is singular — each … offers. This is the hard route's signature grammar move: subject-verb agreement hidden behind an inverted, interrupted structure. If you only scan the two words beside the blank, you will get this wrong every time.
More Answers From 12B — Marked in the Capture
| Location | Question (abbreviated) | Marked in the capture |
|---|---|---|
| R&W M1 Q1 | Twain, Tom Sawyer — "surveyed" most nearly means | C: "Examined" — verified correct |
| R&W M1 Q6 | Heng, The Great Reclamation (2023) — function of three underlined portions | A — verified correct |
| R&W M2-Hard Q20 | Timbuktu manuscripts — "each of which ______ researchers insight" | D: "offers" — verified correct |
Selections are marked throughout the 243 pages; the rows above are the items our team audited line by line. Three for three — and the pattern of what's marked where is itself instructive: this test-taker moved confidently through both a 19th-century novel and a hard-route grammar gauntlet.
Reconstructing the International December Exam
December 2025's International administration survives in two complementary documents. 12A is the math half — Module 1 plus the hard-route Module 2, 89 captures in all. 12B is the English half — Module 1 plus hard-route Module 2 captures. Together they rebuild the complete test International students actually faced, in the same way our 12C breakdown documents the complete US form. (As our 12C breakdown notes, "12B covers additional English material" beyond what any single US form preserves — the 243 pages earn their length.)
The bridge between the International and US pools is visible by eye. 12B's opening Tom Sawyer item is the same question the US Form 12D asks at R&W Module 1 Q22, and the 12F question bank carries it as well — three December documents sharing one skeleton. That's the ecosystem pattern our December analysis keeps surfacing: the same families (fossil brood care, lighthouse keepers, the Taam Ja' Blue Hole) recur across 12C, 12D, 12E, and the 12F bank with names and numbers rotated, while the International captures mirror the US pool at the item level.
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Deep Analysis: What 12B Tests, Module by Module
Reading & Writing — Module 1 (27 questions)
The audited captures show a standard-but-literary Module 1: a vocabulary-in-context opener drawn from a canonical 19th-century novel (Twain), followed quickly by a 2023 literary passage tested structurally (Heng's underlined portions). That pairing is the module's personality — classic and contemporary fiction asked in both vocab and function frames, with grammar, transitions, and notes-style synthesis filling out the run. The practical takeaway: December's International Module 1 assumed comfort with pre-1900 prose and current literary fiction, not one or the other.
Reading & Writing — Module 2, Hard Route
The "Module 2 – Hard" header is directly observed in the captures, and the audited items show what the harder English route actually means. It isn't longer passages — it's denser syntax: subject-verb agreement with inverted and interrupted subjects (the Timbuktu "each of which … offers" item at Q20), vocabulary blanks embedded in academic prose, and distractors engineered to agree with the nearest noun rather than the real subject. Where hard-route math adds computational steps, hard-route English adds grammatical distance between you and the answer.
For students, the contrast is actionable: if your Module 1 goes well, expect Module 2 to test the architecture of sentences — who does what, which word governs the verb — more than raw vocabulary. The marked selections in this file show a student who understood exactly that.
Tips for Students Using 12B
- Read the whole sentence, not the blank's neighborhood. The Timbuktu item punishes two-word scanning: find the true subject ("each") before you even look at the choices, and inverted-subject agreement stops being a trap.
- Prep vocabulary through passages, not word lists. "Surveyed" → "Examined" is about reading Tom's situation, not memorizing synonyms. The same word-testing style runs through the whole December pool.
- Train for a 147-year literary spread. December's International module moved from Twain (1876) to Heng (2023) in six questions. Do at least some weekly practice in pre-1900 prose so older syntax doesn't cost you the opener.
- Use the two-panel layout deliberately. Passage left, question right — practice mapping each question to the exact lines it lives in instead of re-reading top to bottom. On function-of-underlined-portion items, argue about jobs, not topics.
- Complete the reconstruction. Pair 12B with 12A's math captures for a full International December mock, then compare against the complete US forms (12C, 12D, 12E) — the overlap (like the Tom Sawyer item) tells you which skills travel across administrations.
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