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The revised SAT Reasoning Test now includes the following sections:
The Writing Section
- Length: 60 minutes
- Item Types: Multiple choice questions and student-written essay
- Score: 200-800
Students will be asked to write a short essay that requires them to take a position on an issue and use examples to support their position. Questions similar to the multiple-choice questions on the SAT II: Writing Subject Test and the PSAT/NMSQT writing skills section will be included to see how well students use standard written English. These questions are designed to measure your child's ability to recognize errors and improve sentences and paragraphs.
The Critical Reading Section
(Formerly Called Verbal)
- Length: 70 minutes (two 25-minute sections and one 20-minute section)
- Item Types: Reading comprehension, sentence completions, and paragraph-length critical reading
- Score: 200-800
The critical reading section includes short reading passages along with existing long reading passages. Analogies will be eliminated, but sentence-completion questions will remain.
The Math Section
- Length: 70 minutes (two 25-minute sections and one 20-minute section)
- Item Types: Five-choice multiple-choice questions and student-produced responses
- Score: 200-800
The new SAT includes expanded math topics, such as exponential growth, absolute value, and functional notation, and place greater emphasis on such other topics as linear functions, manipulations with exponents, and properties of tangent lines. Another change will be the elimination of the quantitative comparison questions. Important skills now measured in the quantitative comparison format, such as estimate and number sense, will continue to be measured through the multiple choice and student response (grid-in) questions.
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