Christopher Black - McGraw-Hill Education SAT 2019 edition

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The SAT assesses a broad range of reasoning skills in the liberal arts. It does not test specific subject knowledge, but rather the broadly applicable skills of analytical reading, analytical writing, and mathematical problem solving. Here is a more comprehensive list of SAT skills, broken down by test:

Interpreting, analyzing, and drawing inferences from college-level texts across the liberal arts and sciences such as arguments, narratives, and personal or expository essays

Interpreting and drawing inferences from data in the form of graphs, tables, and diagrams that accompany reading passages

Analyzing sentences and paragraphs in terms of their grammatical correctness and semantic coherence

Analyzing essays in terms of their overall development, tone, and effectiveness

Solving algebraic problems involving equations, inequalities, systems, formulas, and functions

Solving data-analysis problems involving concepts such as ratios, proportions, percentages, units, and numerical relationships

Solving problems in advanced mathematics involving concepts such as quadratics, polynomials, angles, polygons, areas, volumes, exponentials, complex numbers, and trigonometry

Writing an effective essay that analyzes and critiques a given argumentative passage

The SAT is a 3-hour test (3 hours 50 minutes with Essay) consisting of four mandatory sections and an optional Essay. It consists of four or five sections: Reading, Writing and Language, Math without calculator, Math with calculator, and an optional Essay.

The SAT composite score (4001600) is the sum of the Reading and Writing score (200800) and the Math score (200800). The Essay is scored on a scale of 624 broken down into three sub-scores: reading (2-8), analysis (28), and writing (28). In addition, the College Board provides 14 additional Insight Scores as shown in the table that follows.

Your SAT scores show colleges your readiness to do college-level work. Students with high SAT scores are more likely to succeed with college-level math, writing, and reading assignments. SAT scores correlate strongly with post-college success, particularly in professions like medicine, law, the humanities, the sciences, and engineering. Students with high SAT scores are more likely to graduate from college and to have successful careers after college.