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SAT
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ACT
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Reading
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- 3 sections (2 25- minute
sections, 1 20-minute section)
- 67 total questions
- 19 sentence completion
questions
- 8 short passage questions
- 40 long passage questions
- Has questions that ask you to
compare passages
- Variety of topics and
organization (only 15% are
prose fiction)
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- 1 section (35 minutes)
- 40 total questions
- No sentence completions
- 4 long passages
- 10 questions per passage
- Doesn’t have questions that
ask you to compare passages
- Predictable genres: prose
fiction, social science,
humanities, natural science
(always in that order)
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Math
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- 3 sections (2 25-minute
sections, 1 20-minute section)
- 54 total questions
- Topics are arithmetic, basic
algebra, geometry, and basic
algebra II
- Questions are in order of
difficulty
- Questions tend to have more
“tricks”
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- 1 section (60 minutes)
- 60 total questions
- 1/3 of questions are
arithmetic and very simple
algebra, less than a third are
harder algebra and graphing,
geometry is less than a ¼,
and 4 questions are about trig
- Questions are more mixed
up, easy ones tend to come
first, but not necessarily
- Questions are more
predictable
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Writing/English
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- 25 minute essay, 1 25-minute
and 1 10-minute multiple
choice sections
- 49 total MC questions
- 25 improving sentences
questions
- 18 error identification
questions
- 6 paragraph revision
questions
- Essay counts for 1/3 of score
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- 1 section (45 minutes)
- 75 total questions- all
multiple choice
- 55-60 improving sentences
questions
- No error identification
questions
- 15-20 paragraph
revision/style questions
- Optional essay
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Science
Reasoning
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- 1 section (35 minutes)
- 40 questions
- Asks you to interpret
information and ideas, not
about specific content
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Scoring
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- Each section out of 800 points
- Quarter point subtracted for
each one you get wrong
- Guess if you can rule out one
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- Each section out of 36 points
- Nothing subtracted for
questions you get wrong
- Fill in every bubble- blindly
guess if you have to
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