SAT DATES

What's on the SAT:

Reading

  • 52 multiple–choice questions

  • 65 minutes

  • Passages or pairs of passages (literature, historical documents, social sciences, and natural sciences)

  • Learn more about the SAT Reading Test

Writing & Language

  • 44 multiple–choice questions

  • 35 minutes

  • Grammar, vocabulary in context, and editing skills

  • Learn more about the SAT Writing & Language Test

Math

  • 58 multiple–choice questions (broken up into a 20-question No-Calculator section and a 38-question Calculator-allowed section)

  • 80 minutes (25 minutes for the No-Calculator section; 55 minutes for the Calculator-allowed section)

  • Algebra I and II, geometry, and some trigonometry

  • Learn more about the SAT Math Test

Essay (Optional)

  • 1 essay

  • 50 minutes

  • Read a passage and explain how the author builds a persuasive argument

  • Learn more about the SAT Essay

  • Princeton Review SAT

  • Recommend taking the SAT essay because some schools require it.