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Current SAT |
New SAT |
Test
Format |
7 multiple-choice sections:
| 3 Math
3 Verbal Reasoning
1 experimental |
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10 sections:
- 3 Math
- 3 "Critical Reading" (formerly
Verbal Reasoning)
- 3 Writing (multiple-choice and essay)
- 1 experimental
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Math
Section |
Content:
- Arithmetic
- Algebra I
- Geometry
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Question Types:
- Multiple-choice
- Student Produced Responses (Grid-Ins)
- Quantitative Comparisons
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Content:
- Arithmetic
- Algebra I
- Geometry
- Algebra II
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Question Types:
- Multiple Choice
- Student Produced Responses (Grid-Ins)
- No more Quantitative Comparisons!
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Verbal
Section |
| Analogies
Sentence Completion
Reading Comprehension (long passages) |
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Name
of section will change from "Verbal
Reasoning" to "Critical Reading"
- No more Analogies!
- Sentence Completion
- Reading Comprehension (long and new short reading passages)
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Writing
Section |
None |
- Multiple-choice questions that test standard rules of grammar:
Error Identifications, Improving Sentences, and Improving
Paragraphs
- Essay section
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Scoring |
- 1 Math score 200 - 800
- 1 Verbal score 200 - 800
- Total score 400 - 1600
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- 1 Math score 200 - 800
- 1 Critical Reading score 200-800
- 1 Writing score 200 - 800 (essay sub-score, 2 - 12 incorporated
to total Writing score)
- Total score 600 - 2400
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Testing Time |
3 hours |
3
hours 30 minutes |
Cost |
US$26 |
US$36 - US$38 |
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