What's
New About the SAT
Toby Rose is committed to providing students with the most updated information regarding any SAT changes or requirements. For those students taking the SAT in the
spring of 2005, the College Board has issued the following changes:
Mathematics
Section
The content is being expanded to reflect the mathematics that
college-bound students typically learn during their first three years of high
school
Elimination of quantitative comparison questions
Critical Reading
Section
Formerly called the verbal section
Elimination of analogies
Addition of paragraph and paired-paragraph reading items
Sections
of the SAT |
Type
of Questions |
No.
of
Questions |
Time
Allotted |
| |
|
|
|
| Critical
Reading |
|
Sentence completion |
19 |
|
|
Passage-based
reading |
48 |
|
|
Total critical
reading questions |
67 |
70 minutes (two
25-minute test sections and one 20-minute test section) |
| |
|
|
|
| Writing |
|
Identifying
sentence errors |
18 |
|
|
Improving
sentences |
25 |
|
|
Improving
paragraphs |
6 |
|
|
Essay writing |
1
essay |
25 minutes |
|
Total writing
questions |
49 +
Essay |
60 minutes (two
25-minute test sections and one 10-minute test section) |
| |
|
|
|
| Math |
|
Multiple-choice |
44 |
|
|
Student-produced
response (grid-ins) |
10 |
|
|
Total math
Questions |
54 |
70 minutes (two
25-minute test sections and one 20-minute test section) |