The Mathematics Section is designed to test your content knowledge of basic math as well as your analytical and logical reasoning skills. The math topics tested come from the basics of arithmetic, algebra, and geometry.  This section on the SAT is comprised of 3 different subsections: two 25-minute sections and one 20-minute section.  One 25-minute section contains 20 multiple choice questions, one 25-minute section contains 8 multiple choice and 10 grid-in questions, and the 20-minute section contains 16 multiple choice questions.  Calculator use is permitted on the math section of the SAT. If you’d like to see a more complete breakdown of the math content that’s tested on the SAT,

The Writing Section of the SAT tests your knowledge of grammar and usage and your ability to write. It includes 49 multiple choice questions of different types and a short essay. The multiple choice questions are in different subsections, including one 25-minute section and one 10-minute section. Included in these two sections are various error identification questions, questions that ask you to improve sentences, and questions that ask you to improve paragraphs.

• The SAT Essay

The essay tests your ability to clearly and effectively express your ideas. This section is 25 minutes long and is always the first section of the SAT. A particular topic is presented, and you are asked to take a specific position or point of view concerning the topic. The test will gauge how well you generate and order your ideas and then support them. Support will typically come from your personal experiences, your reading, or your classwork. Attention will also be focused on how precisely you use vocabulary.

• SAT Improving Sentences Questions

The Improving Sentence questions are a series of multiple choice questions that present you with an underlined sentence or portion of a sentence that may include grammatical errors or errors in usage. The correct choice will test your knowledge of the rules of standard written English. If you’d like to see some examples of SAT Sentence Improving questions,

• SAT Identifying Sentence Error Questions

These questions test your ability to recognize errors in grammar and usage. A sentence with 4 underlined portions is presented. Each portion contains different words or phrases that may be incorrect. If you’d like to see some examples of SAT Identifying Sentence Error questions,

• SAT Improving Paragraph Questions

In this section, a poorly written rough draft of an essay is presented, followed by a series of questions. Each question refers to an awkward construction in the essay, testing your ability to correctly rewrite the error. If you’d like to see some examples of SAT Improving Paragraph questions,

This section tests your ability to read complex sentences and passages, to understand what is being said, and to think critically about the ideas presented. The SAT Critical Reading section consists of two 25-minute sections and one 20-minute section. The question types in this section are sentence completion and passage based reading questions.

• Sentence Completion Questions

Sentence completion questions test both your ability to understand the context a sentence presents and your knowledge of vocabulary. In these sentences, one or two words will be left blank. The correct answer to each blank will be a vocabulary item that accurately conforms to the logic of the sentence. If you’d like to see some examples of SAT sentence completion questions,

• SAT Passage-Based Reading Questions

In this section, prose passages of anywhere from 100 to 850 words are presented. The passages are generally drawn from social studies, literary fiction, natural sciences, or humanities.   Each passage is followed by a series of questions that tests your ability to read and understand the passage.  Questions may ask you, for example, to state the main point of the passage, to make an inference from statements in the passage, to identify an author’s assumptions, or to explain the function of part of an element in the passage. If you’d like to see some examples of SAT passage-based reading questions,