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The changes to the new SAT

The old SAT was three hours long and had two sections, Math and Verbal. The Math section of the SAT contained three types of questions: five-choice multiple-choice, quantitative comparisons, and student-produced responses (also called “grid-ins”). The Verbal section also contained three types of questions: sentence completions, analogies, and reading comprehension. Both the math and verbal sections of the SAT were scored on a scale from 200-800. A perfect score on the SAT was 1600.

The new SAT has 3 sections: SAT Math, SAT Critical Reading and SAT Writing.

SAT Math:
There are two changes to the SAT Math section:

First, quantitative comparisons have been cut from the test, so the SAT Math section now has just multiple-choice and grid-in questions.

Second change to this section of the SAT is that the math content covered in the section has been expanded to cover more of algebra II (such as functions) and some additional topics in geometry (such as tangents and circles).

SAT Critical Reading:
The Critical Reading section of the SAT is a reworked and refocused version of the Verbal section. In the new SAT, analogies have been dropped, and replaced by additional reading comprehension passages, including questions on short passages of about 150 words.

SAT Writing:
The Writing section is completely new to the SAT. The Writing section contains three types of multiple choice questions that test grammar and writing mechanics skills. The section also contains an SAT Essay.

The new perfec score is now 2400, and the test is now three hours and 45 minutes long.

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