What Students Should Know About the New SAT Changes
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The SAT exam is changing next March 2016, and many students and parents are wondering what is changing exactly. Coach Brian from the SAT Up team put together this presentation for our webinar (available on YouTube), and we'd like to share it with our community of students and parents. If you want more info on the new SAT changes, we have tons of info on our blog: https://blog.scorebeyond.com.
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What Students Should Know About the New SAT Changes
- 1. Webinar: New SAT Changes Coach Brian August 2015 By SAT Up team at Scorebeyond
- 2. Important Dates! March 5, 2016: New SAT Up coming up January 23, 2016: The last current SAT administered
- 3. New SAT Subjects Tested 2 comprehensive SAT subject sections 1. Evidence-Based Reading and Writing 2. Math (1 section with calculator, 1 section without calculator)
- 4. New SAT: How much time you have 3 hrs to complete exam (breaks not included) 50 mins for essay (optional)
- 5. New SAT: Essay OPTIONAL 50 minutes for the optional essay * Double check with your universities of choice whether they’ll still require you to complete the essay portion of the New SAT *
- 6. New SAT Scoring ✔ Total score of 1600! (800 max per section) ✔ Essay scoring is separate (score 2-8) ✔ No penalty for skipping, guessing. Points only for correct answers!
- 7. New Evidence-Based Reading ❏ 52 Questions in 65 minutes ❏ Passages 500-750 words ➔ 10-11 questions per passage Highlights 1. More straight-forward passages 2. Infographics may be included with passages More on SAT Up Coach blog: http://blog.scorebeyond.com/category/coach-corner/
- 8. New Writing & Language ❏ 44 questions in 35 minutes ❏ 4 passages ➔ 11 questions per passage Highlights: 1. No more isolated sentences. Passages only. 2. Concepts tested: expression of ideas, development, support, focus, quantitative info More on SAT Up Coach blog: http://blog.scorebeyond.com/category/coach-corner/
- 9. New Math ❏ 20 questions in 25 minutes, without calculator ❏ 38 questions in 55 minutes, with calculator Highlights: 1. Emphasis on Algebra 2. Focus on reading data (infographics, graphs) 3. Use of calculator allowed on certain questions More on SAT Up Coach blog: http://blog.scorebeyond.com/category/coach-corner/
- 10. How SAT Up will help you test prep ✔ New SAT content. ✔ New SAT strengths and weaknesses defined. ✔ New SAT daily workouts personalized. Download SAT Up: