What is the SAT?
The Writing Section
Length: 60 minutes
Item Types: Multiple choice questions and student-written essay
Score: 200-800
Students will be asked to write a short essay that requires them to take a position on an issue and use examples to support their position. Questions similar to the multiple-choice questions on the SAT II: Writing Subject Test and the PSAT/NMSQT writing skills section will be included to see how well students use standard written English. These questions are designed to measure your child's ability to recognize errors and improve sentences and paragraphs.
The Critical Reading Section (Formerly Called Verbal)
Length: 70 minutes (two 25-minute sections and one 20-minute section)
Item Types: Reading comprehension, sentence completions, and paragraph-length
critical reading
Score: 200-800
The critical reading section, currently known as the verbal section, will include short reading passages along with existing long reading passages. Analogies will be eliminated, but sentence-completion questions will remain.
The Math Section
Length: 70 minutes (two 25-minute sections and one 20-minute section)
Item Types: Five-choice multiple-choice questions and student-produced responses
Score: 200-800
The SAT includes expanded math topics, such as exponential growth, absolute value, and functional notation, and place greater emphasis on such other topics as linear functions, manipulations with exponents, and properties of tangent lines. Important skills now measured in the quantitative comparison format, such as estimate and number sense, will continue to be measured through the multiple choice and student response (grid-in) questions.
Our SAT Program
Davidson Tutoring now offers two SAT programs designed to meet the needs of your student:
- 15 Hour Comprehensive Program
- Reviews both the Math and Verbal sections of the SAT test in ten, one and a half hour sessions on a one-on-one basis with a knowledgeable Davidson Tutoring instructor.
- Prepares your student for all of the different kinds of questions that will be on the SAT test.
- Forms good SAT study habits.
- Exposes your student to SAT test-taking strategies.
- Enables your student to practice answering real SAT questions, using SAT materials created directly by the test makers themselves.
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* Receive 10% off our SAT programs if you sign-up for subject based tutoring with Davidson Tutoring. Existing clients are also eligible for the 10% discount.
SAT Test Dates
Upcoming test dates are TBD.