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About
the Exam Eligibility
Test Details Exam
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About
the Exam
SAT is a College Entrance Examination
and is mandatory to clear to get admission in Colleges in USA and
Canada. This is a method to compare the students by an objective
way. The aim of the test is to measure the student's ability to do
college work. Scores in SAT helps the colleges to judge the
applicant's sustainability to their standards. Though SAT test
scores are basic consideration for admission in various colleges in
USA and Canada, the admission officer considers certain other
factors like high school grades and courses, work experience,
application essays, leadership qualities, the admission interview,
and ethnic background.
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Eligibility
All
students who are desirous of joining the college education and that
too in the college of their interest are required to appear in the
SAT test.
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Test
Details
The SAT is offered every year
in October, November, December, January, March or April, May, and
June The Education Testing Services offers the SAT dates seven times
a year. Mostly the days of examination falls on Saturday. But, if,
any student who cannot take the SAT on Saturday for religious
reasons can appear in the test on following Sunday subject to
produce a proof from clergyman on official letterhead explaining
reasons that prevent the student to appear in the exam on Saturday.
Accordingly, the registration form is needed to fill in special test
center code i.e., 01000.
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Exam
Structure
The SAT is conducted in two parts i.e. SAT I and SAT II. The SAT I
is of three hours long. It consists of 75 minutes of:
Verbal testing
(30+30+15) which consists of two sections of 30 minutes and one of
15 minutes. Math testing is also on the same system. The
experimental section is of 30 minutes and can either be verbal or
math. Though scores of experimental section are not considered but
testing center hardly disclose which test is experimental and which
is real.
The SAT II is the most important test
because Colleges usually ask for three SAT II scores. This is to
judge the students' ability to recognize and correct mistakes in
grammar, sentence structure and word choice. It is an hour (20+40
minutes) duration test. 20 minutes for the essay writing and 40
minutes to answer sixty multiple-choice questions. It covers
subjects such as writing, literature, foreign languages, history,
math, and science. Special emphasis is on essays.
The verbal section of the SAT tests
vocabulary, ability to understand relationship between words, and
capability to read and comprehend. For getting good scores practice
of answering analogy, sentence completion, and good vocabulary helps
a lot. In the test there are approx 78 questions that are further
sub divided: 19 analogies, 19 sentence completions, and 40 critical
reading questions. There is approx a minute time for answering each
question
In the math section, there are sixty
math questions - 35 standard multiple-choice questions, 15
quantitative comparisons, and 10 grid-in questions. The students are
tested in fractions/units, word problems, equations, geometry
problems, and quantitative comparison.
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Application
Details
Registration deadlines fall
approximately five weeks before each test date. To register by mail,
simply fill out the registration form in the College Board's
Bulletin for the SAT Program. You can obtain a free copy of this
publication from your school's guidance counselor. Or you can call
ETS at 609-771-7600 and they'll send you one free of charge. You can
also register online at www.collegeboard.com
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