Cracking the sat

Cracking the SAT

Part One: The SAT, The Princeton Review, and You
So what does the SAT actually test?
Who writes the SAT?

What’s on the SAT?
The SAT runs 3 hours and 45 and is divided into 10 sections. These include:
One 25 minute essay section, requiring you to present your viewpoint on a topic
Two 25 minute Math sections (MC and “grid-ins”)
Two 25 minute Critical Reading sections, made up of sentence completions and reading comprehension questions
One 25 minute Writing section, containing error identification questions, improving sentences questions, and improving paragraphs questions
One 20 minute Math section (MC)
One 20 minute Critical Reading section (similar questions)
One 10 minute Writing section (improving sentences)
One 25 minute Experimental section (which may be Math, Writing, or Critical Reading)

Scoring on the SAT
Each subject is scored on a scale of 200-800.
The three scores are then totaled, for a combined score between 600 and 2,400.
The average score is about 500 per section, or 1,500 total.
Your score report will also give your percentile rank.

How the SAT is Scored
For every correct answer, you get 1 raw point
For every incorrect answer, you lose ¼ of a point
For every question you leave blank, you get 0 points

How to Crack the SAT
Remember, this is a standardized test.
This means that the same types of questions will be asked over and over again.
The numbers or words might change, but the basics do not.

Multiple Choice
Most questions on the SAT are Multiple Choice.
Luckily, this means you can use POE to find the right answer.
If you can identify all the wrong answers, that should leave the right answer.

Let’s try one…
The capital of Azerbaijan is
A. Washington, D.C.
B. Paris
C. Tokyo
D. London
E. Baku

Should you guess?
You want to acquire as many points as possible without losing any fractions of points.
Be careful with guessing- if you can eliminate several wrong choices, your odds at guessing right are high. If not, you may want to skip it.

Put Pencil to Paper
Feel free to write in your test booklet.
You can even create a key, like the one below, to help narrow down choices.
* Answer you like
/ Answer you do not like
~ Answer you kinda like
? Answer you do not understand
X Answer you know is wrong

Transfer answers at end of each group
This will save you time, and will require less effort than looking back and forth every few seconds!

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