When
compared to postgraduate courses, the students opting to study bachelor’s degree
in America are comparatively less. Those who wish to pursue their undergraduate
course in USA need to write an exam SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test). Let us see
the examination pattern and preparation required to attempt this exam.
This
SAT exam which is to be written for pursuing undergraduate courses in USA is
conducted by a nonprofit organization called the “College Board”. This is basically a reasoning test conducted
in three hours time to test the skills of students in mathematics, verbal and
reasoning subjects. The scores availed in this exam are valid for a time
period of five years. Those who wish to write the SAT exam should register
themselves by following the link http://satcollegeboard.com/register. The
registration charges are 102 dollars.
Eligibility for SAT
Anyone
can write this exam. There is no eligibility criterion to write SAT. Students
studying 10+2 too can write this test.
SAT Examination Pattern
Section
|
Average Score
|
Time
|
Content
|
Critical Reading
|
501
|
70
Minutes
|
Vocabulary, Critical reading, and sentence-level reading
|
Writing
|
493
|
60
Minutes
|
Grammar,
Usage and Diction
|
Mathematics
|
515
|
70
Minutes
|
Number and operations; algebra and functions; geometry; statistics, probability, and data
analysis
|
Critical reading
The
analytical skills of students are assessed in this exam. There shall be two
sections for 25 minutes each and one section for 20 minutes time period. There
shall be 48 reading comprehension questions and 19 complete the sentence
questions. Scores would be in-between 200 to 800. The total time period is for
70 minutes and the subsections are as follows:
Sentence completion: In this section they test the student’s
vocabulary and sentence formation skills. The correct answer should be chosen
from the multiple answers and has to be filled in the one or two blanks in the
given sentence.
Passage based reading: There shall be two sections under this where
one is tested for vocabulary in context and literal comprehension. The passages
shall be given from different fields like humanities, social studies, natural
science and fiction based literature.
Writing: The time allotted
for this section is total 60 minutes. In this section there shall be 70%
multiple choice questions and short passage with 30% marks weightage. Error
identification and sentence improvement questions test the grammar knowledge of
students in this section. Analytical thinking of arranging sentences for
paragraph improvement by the students shall be tested with questions in this
section. The time given for passage formation is 25 minutes.
Mathematics: This is the
quantitative section including three sub sections.
25 minutes section: It consists of 20 multiple choice problem
solving questions which has to be completed within 25 minutes.
25 minutes section: It consists of 8 multiple choice problem
solving questions and 10 Grid-in questions that need to be completed within 25
minutes.
Small section: It consists of 16 multiple choice problem solving
questions that has to be completed in 20 minutes time.
There
is also a dummy section in the name of variable/equation with 20 minutes time
allotted but this is not considered with the individual score. This is used
only for SAT future edition.
The
three sections in SAT consist of reading score, writing score and math score with
an average score of 500 in each section.
On
completion of the SAT exam, students can officially report their scores to four
universities.
Other
than that for every additional report of the score to other universities cost
10.5 dollars.
There
are also SAT tests conducted in subjects which very few universities take into
consideration and hence very few students attempt this exam.
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