SAT Preparation

SAT - Scholastic Aptitude test is the most accepted test by every college in the USA as a part of its admission process.

Usually taken by high school students who wish to pursue higher education, the SAT test score is also crucial for the awarding of academic scholarships besides the Admissions

SAT General Test Overview

SAT Critical Reading Section

How many verbal questions are on the SAT?

There are 67 Critical Reading questions on the SAT.

• Two 25-minute sections and one 20-minute section
• 48 reading comprehension questions
• 19 sentence completion questions

What type of verbal questions are on the SAT?

Reading Comprehension and Sentence Completions

• Passage-Based Reading: Students will be asked to read short and long passages followed by some multiple-choice questions.
• Sentence Completions: Students will be presented with an incomplete sentence and be asked to finish it with the correct word or words. What kind of questions are likely to be asked from a passage?
• Vocabulary in Context: In these questions, you will determine the meanings of words from their context in the reading passage.
• Literal Comprehension: These questions relate to your understanding of significant information directly stated in the passage.
• Extended Reasoning: These questions measure your ability to fuse and analyze information as well as to evaluate the assumptions made and the techniques used by the author. Most of the reading questions fall into this category. You may be asked to identify cause and effect, make inferences, recognize a main idea or an author's tone, and understand.

SAT Writing Section

• How many writing questions and essays are on the SAT?
  There are 49 Grammar questions on the SAT. You'll have three sections; 1, 25-minute section, 1, 10-minute section, and 1, 25 minute essay.
• What type of writing questions are on the SAT?
  The 49 questions are broken down into 3 question types: Identifying Sentence Errors, Improving Sentences, and Improving Paragraphs. These question types test you on your grammar, word choice, and usage. You'll have 25 minutes to write an essay.

The Essay

The essay will require students to read an 80-word passage that makes a statement or claim. Students need to read the passage and write a response to it in which they state a position and back it up with examples from schoolwork, literature, history, or their own experience.

The essay doesn't test writing ability, as much as it does other skills, such as organization, idea development, or your ability to support an argument. In fact, the average essay will be graded in just under 2 minutes.

Identifying Sentence Errors

You'll be presented with a sentence that may or may not have a grammatical or syntactical error in it. You'll be asked to identify the error or indicate if there is no error. There are 18 "Error ID" questions.

Improving Sentences

Students will be asked to read a sentence and try to improve it without changing its meaning. There are 25 Improving Sentence questions

Improving Paragraphs

These are just like the Improving Sentence questions except...you guessed it...you'll be reading and improving paragraphs. There are only 6 of these.

How is the verbal section scored?

Your essay grade and your performance on the multiple choice section are combined to create one score between 200-800 points.