Content | Minutes | Questions | Total Time | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Writing | essay(Writing) | 25 | 1 essay | 60 minutes | |
multiple-choice | 35 | ||||
| Recognize sentence errors | 18 | |||
| Improve paragraphs | 6 | |||
| Choose the best version of a piece of writing | 25 | |||
Critical reading | multiple-choice | 70 | 70 minutes | ||
| Sentence completion | 19 | |||
| Passage-based Reading | 48 | |||
Mathematics | multiple-choice and student-produced response | 25 | 10 | 70 minutes | |
multiple-choice | 45 | 44 | |||
Variable (unscored, multiple-choice) | 25 | 25 minutes |
*The unscored section :::
One of the 25-minute sections is unscored. This "variable" or "equating" section may have critical reading, mathematics, or multiple-choice writing questions. It does not count toward the final score but is used to try out new questions and to ensure that scores on new editions of the SAT are comparable to scores on earlier editions.