Format of the NEW SAT
The SAT is a three-hour and 45 minute test. Only three hours
and twenty minutes of the test count toward your score-- the
experimental section is not scored. There are ten sections in
the test.
Sections |
Types of Questoins |
Lenght |
| Reading (3 Sections) |
19 Sentence Completions |
70 Minutes |
| 48 Reading Comprehension |
| 67 Total Questoins |
| Writing (3 Sections) |
49 Grammer |
60 Minutes |
| 1 Essay |
| 49 Total Questions + Essay |
| Math (3 Sections) |
44 Multiple-choice |
70 Minutes |
| 10 Grid-ins |
| 54 Total Questions |
| Experimental |
Reading, Writing or Math |
25 Minutes |
NOTE: The order of the format is not fixed: the sections can
occur in any order.
The experimental section, which is not scored, can be a reading
section, a writing section, or a math section. You won't know
which section is experimental. You will know which type of section
it is, though, since there will be an extra one of that type.
Because the "bugs" have not been worked out of the
experimental section -- or, to put it more directly, because
you are being used as a guinea pig to work out the "bugs"
-- this portion of the SAT is often more difficult and confusing
than the other parts.
Knowing that the experimental section can be disproportionately
difficult, if you do poorly on a particular section, you can
take some solace in the hope that it may have been the experimental
section. In other words, do not allow one difficult section
to discourage your performance on the rest of the SAT.
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