Introduction
The College Board has administrated the New SAT for the first time in March 2005. For the first time, the New SAT will provide an analysis of the college success skills in Critical Reading, Writing and Mathematics. This analysis will give you feedback that will help you better prepare for college by identifying your strengths and weaknesses in these skills.
With a good score in New SAT you travel first class. A high composite score and a strong individual score ensure that the best collages accept you, besides enabling you to compete for scholarships to the extent of full tuition waivers.
Test Details
The New SAT has eight types of questions in sections on Critical Reading, Writing and Math.
The Math is basically high school math in Nepal and thus most students here (Nepali students being good at Math) can easily score over 600-700.
The Critical Reading Section formerly called the ‘verbal’ section is a test of ‘verbal reasoning’. It consists of addition of paragraph reading and paired-paragraph reading items. This section of the New SAT isn’t all that intimidating after you acquires a decent vocabulary and master the whole bag of tricks that are taught at APS.
The Writing Section is a new section consisting of multiple-choice questions and a student-produced essay.
Multiple-choice questions assess understanding of how to use language in a clear, consistent manner and how to improve a piece is writing through revision and editing.
The student-produced essay assesses a student’s ability to develop and express ideas effectively. By including this measure of skill, the New SAT will help colleges make better admission and placement decisions.
Test Structure
Section of
the SAT |
Types of Question |
No. of Question |
Time Allocated |
Critical Reading |
1. Sentence completion
2. Passage-based reading
Total critical reading
questions |
19
48
67 |
70 minutes
(two 25 minute test sections
and one 20 minute) |
Writing |
1. Identifying Sentence
Errors
2. Improving sentences
3. Improving Paragraphs
4. Essay Writing
Total Writing Question |
18
25
6
1 essay 25 minute
49 + Essay
|
60 minutes
(two 25 minute test sections
and one 20 minutes section) |
Math |
1. Multiple Choice
2. Student-produced response (gird-ins)
Total Math Questions |
44
10
54 |
70 minutes
(two 25 minutes test sections
and one 20 minute test section) |
The SAT also includes a 'variable section' in Critical Reading, Writing or Math for which 25 minutes is allocated. The variable section will not count toward your final score. Still because you won’t know which section is the variable one, you need to do your best on the entire test.
Scoring
In Multiple Choice Questions you receive one raw point for each question answered correctly. For each question that you attempt but answer incorrectly, 1/4 point is subtracted from the total number of correct answers. No points are added or subtracted for unanswered questions. If the final score includes a fraction, the score is rounded off to the nearest whole number.
In Student-produced response question in the Math section, nothing is subtracted for wrong answers.
The essay will receive a score of 2 to 12. However, a blank essay, essays that are not written on topic, or essays deemed illegible after several attempts have been made will receive a score of O.
Then the raw score is tallied against a scaled score table from 200 points to 800 in every section. This is your New SAT score.
Course Duration
The New SAT course lasts for six weeks. Every week there are two hours of class daily, one for the verbal portion and one for the Math portion, from Monday to Friday. Saturday is a holiday whereas Sunday is for full-length testing.
Course Start Date
Admissions are open every Single Monday all you have to do is just come over and register any day of the week for a class at your convenient time and start the class the following Monday.
