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SAT Test Format and Content

Test Length No. of Questions Possible Score Type of Material

Critical Reading [1]

  • 70 Minutes
  • 1x 20-minute section
  • 2x 25-minute sections

49 Passaged-based reading

Tests your reading comprehension. These questions include summarization questions, figurative language questions, vocabulary questions, inference/exended reasoning questions, interpretation questions, and compare and contrast questions.

800 Points Multiple-Choice

19 Sentence completion questions

Tests your vocabulary, semantics, and inference skills.

Math [2]

  • 70 Minutes
  • 1x 20-minute section
  • 2x 25-minute sections

44 Multiple choice

Basic arithmetic, algebra, and geometry.

800 Points Multiple-Choice

10 Student-produced responses

More arithmetic, algebra, and geometry.

Grid-ins

Writing [3] / Essay [4]

  • 60 Minutes
  • 1x 10-minute section
  • 2x 25-minute sections

25 Improving sentences

Tests your ability in grammar, sentence structure, word choice, and conventional written English.

560 Points Multiple-Choice

18 Identifying sentence errors

Tests your ability to spot subject-verb agreement errors, pronoun errors, sentence structure errors, and common misuses of language.

Multiple-Choice

6 Improving paragraphs

Tests your ability to correct subordination of ideas, correct coordination of idea, correct use of transition, unity of paragraphs, coherence of paragraphs.

240 Points Multiple-Choice

1 Essay

The SAT exams begins with a 25 minute essay. You'll be asked to present and support a point of view on a specific issue. This is not meant to be a final, well-refined version, but instead your first draft.

Written essay

 


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