SAT® is an entry and scholarship criteria into most of the best and highly ranked schools in the United States . It is a test of Mathematical and Verbal reasoning. High scores in the SAT® will automatically qualify students to gain entry into the best schools to compete for merit based scholarships.

SAT® is scored on a scale of 200-800 (for math, reading and writing) amounting to a total score of 2400 and is typically taken by high school juniors and seniors. The test is offered several times a year.

The essay, which is graded by two examiners, is scored on a scale of 1-6 (low to high)

SECTIONS OF THE SAT®:

Critical Reading/Verbal section
Sentence Completion...19 questions
Passage based Reading...48 questions
70 minutes (two 25-minute test sections and one 20-minute test section)

Writing

Identifying Sentence Errors …18 questions
Improving Sentences ....... 25 questions
Improving Paragraphs ....... 6 questions

ESSAY WRITING

1 essay - 25 minutes
60 minutes (two 25-minute test sections and one 10-minute test section)

MATH

Multiple-Choice ........ 44 questions
Student-produced response ... 10 questions
70 minutes (two 25-minute test sections and one 20-minute test section)