SAT Reasoning Test
The SAT Reasoning Test is a measure of the critical thinking skills you'll need for academic success in college. The SAT assesses how well you analyze and solve problems—skills you learned in school that you'll need in college. The SAT is typically taken by high school juniors and seniors.
Each section of the SAT is scored on a scale of 200—800, with two writing subscores for multiple-choice and the essay. It is administered seven times a year in the U.S., Puerto Rico, and U.S. Territories, and six times a year overseas.
The Writing Section
Overview
Time |
Content |
Item Types |
Score |
60 min. |
Grammar, usage, and word choice |
Multiple choice questions (35 min.) and student-written essay (25 min.) |
200-800 |
The writing section includes both multiple-choice questions and a direct writing measure in the form of an essay.
Short Essay
- The short essay measures your ability to:
- Organize and express ideas clearly
- Develop and support the main idea
- Use appropriate word choice and sentence structure
- You'll be asked to develop a point of a view on an issue, using reasoning and evidence — based on your own experiences, readings, or observations — to support your ideas.
- The essay will be scored by trained high school and college teachers. Each reader will give the essay a score from 1 to 6 (6 is the highest score) based on the overall quality of the essay and your demonstration of writing competence.
Multiple-Choice
- The multiple-choice writing questions measure your ability to:
- Improve sentences and paragraphs
- Identify errors (such as diction, grammar, sentence construction, subject-verb statement, proper word usage, and wordiness)
The Critical Reading Section
Overview
Time |
Content |
Item Types |
Score |
70 min. (two 25-min. sections and one 20-min. section) |
Critical reading and sentence-level reading |
Reading comprehension, sentence completions, and paragraph-length critical reading |
200-800 |
The critical reading section, formerly known as the verbal section, includes short reading passages along with the existing long reading passages. Analogies have been eliminated, but sentence-completion questions and passage-based reading questions remain.
The Mathematics Section
Overview
Time |
Content |
Item Types |
Score |
70 min. (two 25-min. sections and one 20-min. section) |
Number and operations; algebra and functions; geometry; statistics, probability, and data analysis |
Five-choice multiple-choice questions and student-produced responses |
200-800 |
The SAT includes mathematics topics from up through a third-year college preparatory course, such as exponential growth, absolute value, and functional notation. It also places emphasis on such topics as linear functions, manipulations with exponents, and properties of tangent lines. Important skills such as estimation and number sense are measured through the multiple-choice and student response (grid-in) questions (formerly measured in the quantitative comparison format).
Preparing for the SAT Test
Preparation for the test will depend on the amount of time you have available and your personal preferences for how to prepare. At a minimum, before you take the SAT Test, you should know what to expect from the test, including the administrative procedures, types of questions and directions, the approximate number of questions, and the amount of time for each section.
The administrative procedures include registration, date, time, test center location, cost, score reporting procedures, and availability of special testing arrangements. Remember—you can not do very well on the test without preparing yourself answering every question in each section of the test correctly. Everyone—even the most practiced and confident of writers—should spend some time preparing for the writing section before arriving at the test center. Same thing is true about the Quantitative and reading sections. It is important to review the skills measured, how the section is scored, scoring guides and score level descriptions, sample topics, scored sample essay responses, and reader commentary.
Vigeo gives students and professionals the best in test preparation combined with unbeaten convenience and flexibility. Vigeo offers specialized preparation services for SAT to insure you high scores in the actual SAT Test.
We have devised a unique system of education which simulates the actual testing environment to give the students a true taste of testing centre environment. As a whole, SAT at Vigeo is a 150 hours training program which runs for approximately 10 weeks with two and a half hours daily, six days a week, providing you 50 hours of Quantitative Skills, 50 hours of verbal Skills and 50 hours of writing training. For further information about class timing and study schedule, please contact our admission office.