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SAT READING & WRITING
The Reading & Writing section measures literacy skills, focusing on comprehension, analysis, rhetoric, and language use to assess a student's ability to understand, interpret, and improve a variety of texts.
READING & WRITING FACT SHEET
Scores
From 200 to 800
“Experimental Questions”
Structure
Two modules 27 questions per module 32 minutes per module Approximately 72 seconds
There will be 2 questions per module that will not count toward your score. The College Board is experimenting with these questions (and using you to do it).
Duration
Time Per Question Words Per Passage
From 25 to 150 words
Domains
i. Craft & Structure (13-15 questions) ii. Information & Ideas (12-14 questions) iii. Standard English Conventions (11-15 questions) iv. Expression of Ideas (8-12 questions) Note: Questions will appear in the above sequence, meaning Craft & Structure questions appear first, Information & Ideas questions appear next, etc.
ADAPTIVE TESTING
Testing someone on an impossible task isn’t really an effective test. An effective test is designed to measure how good someone is at something within certain limits. Some tests (like the SAT) are designed to measure the upper limits of how good someone is at something. Since everyone’s upper limits are obviously different, the SAT will try to adapt to your limits. How will it do that? Here’s a very simplistic way of understanding how the SAT’s adaptive model works.
Try this easy question … correct! Try this easy question … correct!
Try this medium question … correct! Try this medium question … correct! Try this hard question … incorrect. Try this hard question … incorrect. Hmm … okay, let’s go back to easy and medium questions.
More specifically, the SAT uses a two-stage adaptive model. In Module 1, you’ll encounter a mix of easy, medium, and hard questions, with an overall average difficulty level set at medium. After you complete Module 1, the SAT adapts based on your performance. Depending on how well you did, you’ll then be routed to either a more challenging Module 2 or an easier Module 2. A common question students ask is about the threshold for reaching the “harder” module. Essentially, they want to know: How many questions do I need to get right to be routed to the hard module? At Study Smart Tutors, we believe this question misses the point. First of all, each SAT is different, so there is no fixed number that guarantees
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