SAT ENGLISH
ABOUT THE CRITICAL READING SECTION
Two types of multiple-choice questions:
- Sentence Completion
- 19 multiple-choice questions to test the vocabulary and ability to understand complex sentences
- Passage-based reading
- 48 questions that are based on passages that range from 100 to 850 words. The content of the passages is drawn from the humanities, literacy fiction, social studies, and natural sciences
Sentence Completion
The SAT has two different types of sentence completion questions:
- Vocabulary-in-Context Questions
- Words used in the context of the sentence
- The definitions of the words
- Logic-Based Questions
- Meanings of the words
- Understand the logic of a complicated sentence
Passage-based Reading
- Types of Passages
- The passages are about 100 to 850 words long
- Some selections are from a single source, and others consist of a pair of related passages on a shared issue or theme.
- The passages cover subjects in the humanities, social studies, natural sciences, and literary fiction
- The passages vary in style and tone. They include narrative, persuasive, expository, and/or literary elements
- A set of questions follows each passage or pair of related passages
Types of questions
- Extended Reasoning Questions
- Facts, assumptions, and inferences
- Logic, style and tone
- Vocabulary-in-Context Questions
- Literal Comprehension Questions
- Questions involving paired passages and paragraphs
ABOUT THE WRITING SECTION
The section is composed of:
- An Essay
- First draft of an original essay, under timed conditions
- Multiple-choice questions
- Recognizing sentence errors, choosing the best version of a piece of writing and improving paragraphs within a writing context
Writing Exercises
- Using Action Verbs
- Quick Grammar Review
- Revising sentences to use action verbs
- Using Abstract and Concrete Language
- Sample Essays
- Using Parallelism
- Improving Paragraphs
- Avoiding Wordiness
- ving paired passages and paragraphs
SAT MATH
ABOUT THE MATHEMATICS SECTION
The mathematics section has the following questions:
- 44 multiple-choice questions
- 10 student-produced response questions, which require you to fill in a response.
The mathematics section has the four categories of questions:
- Number and Operations
- Algebra and Functions
- Geometry and measurement
- Data analysis, Statistics, and probability
Numbers and Operations
- Properties of integers
- Arithmetic word problems
- Number lines
- Squares and square roots
- Fractions and rational numbers
- Elementary number theory
- Factors, multiples, and remainders
- Prime numbers
- Rations, proportions, and percents
- Sequences
- Sets (union, intersection, elements)
- Counting problems
- Logical reasoning
The SAT does not include:
- Tedious or long computations
- Matrix operations
Algebra and Functions
- Operations on algebraic expressions
- Factoring
- Exponents
- Evaluating expressions with exponents and roots
- Solving equations
- Working with “unsolvable” equations
- Solving for one variable in terms of another
- Solving equations involving radical expressions
- Absolute value
- Direct translation into mathematical expressions
- Inequalities
- Systems of linear equations and inequalities
- Solving quadratic equations by factoring
- Rational equations and inequalities
- Direct and inverse variation
- Word problems
- Functions
- Function notation and evaluation
- Domain and range
- Functions as models
- Linear functions: their equations and graphs
- Quadratic functions: their equations and graphs
- Qualitative behavior of graphs and functions
- Translations and their effects on graphs of functions
The SAT does not include:
- Solving quadratic equations that require the use of the quadratic formula
- Complex numbers
- Logarithms
Geometry and Measurement
- Geometric notation
- Points and lines
- Angles in the plane
- Triangles (including special triangles)
- Equilateral triangles
- Isosceles triangles
- Right triangles and the Pythagorean theorem
- 300-600-900 triangles
- 450-450-900 triangles
- 3-4-5 triangles
- Congruent triangles
- Similar triangles
- The triangle inequality
- Quadrilaterals
- Parallelograms
- Rectangles
- Squares
- Areas and perimeters
- Areas of squares and rectangles
- Perimeters of squares and rectangles
- Area of triangles
- Area of parallelograms
- Other polygons
- Angles in a polygon
- Perimeter
- Area
- Circles
- Diameter
- Radius
- Art
- Tangent to circle
- Circumference
- Area
- Solid geometry
- Solid figures and volumes
- Surface area
- Coordinate Geometry
- Slopes, parallel lines, and perpendicular lines
- The midpoint formula
- The distance formula
- Transformations
The SAT does not include:
- Formal Geometric proofs
- Trigonometry
- Radian measure
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
- Data interpretation
- Statistics
- Arithmetic mean
- Median
- Mode
- Weighted average
- Average of algebraic expressions
- Using averages to find missing numbers
- Elementary probability
- Geometric probability
The SAT does not include:
- Computation of standard deviation
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