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PAT Progressive Achievement Tests — VIP Comprehensive Practice Exam
PAT — The Progressive Achievement Tests (PAT) are a suite of standardised, norm-referenced assessments developed by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER), administered in Australian and New Zealand schools from Years 3–10 across four domains: PAT Reading, PAT Maths, PAT Science, and PAT Grammar & Punctuation; because the tests are norm-referenced rather than pass/fail, the 70% benchmark used here is an original VIP practice standard, not an official threshold.
28
Questions
90m
Time Limit
70.00%
To Pass
Question 1 of 28👑 VIP
Read the following passage, then answer the question. "The Great Barrier Reef stretches over 2,300 kilometres along Australia's northeastern coast and is the world's largest coral reef system. In recent decades, scientists have recorded significant coral bleaching events caused when ocean temperatures rise and coral expel the algae that give them both colour and energy. Without the algae, the coral gradually starves. In 2016 and 2017, back-to-back bleaching events devastated more than two-thirds of the reef's shallow-water coral. Despite growing global concern, ocean temperatures continue to climb." Based only on the information in this passage, which conclusion is MOST strongly supported?
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