Question on SAT's - Coleman and company

Machette · **Question on SAT's - Coleman and company -** 02-14-2006, 04:14 PM

I know I could google this, but I would rather get feedback from people who wrote them rather than the people who made them. And as most of you have seen from some of my post I have looked at different American universities.

In the SAT's what are the different sections based on? I know their is a section on math, just wondering what kind of questions to expect and the difficulty level on the math. I stress questions on math mainly because out of everything I'm bad at math the most, really bad.

If some of the questions are stupid, please do not forget I live in Canada, our system doesn't involve writing a entrance exam into a college. Also marks don't matter for me because they are pretty high, and when the American system adds 8% more to them, it looks well..all of my chances are based on my SAT scores. So comment on the SAT's

c312 · 02-14-2006, 04:53 PM

I remember math as being a lot of geometry, some algebra, and a little calculus. The other sections are verbal and writing (writing is new as of this year so I didn't have to take it). Verbal is like writing comprehension and analogies, vocabulary, reading proficiency, etc... I didn't think the test was that hard, I got a 1330 which is pretty good.

eeves · 02-14-2006, 05:11 PM

math...
pre-alg, alg/coor geometry, plane geometry/trig..........

english....
mechanics

reading...
literature, soc sciences

science...

jujumantb · 02-14-2006, 05:30 PM

There was no calc on the ACT iirc, but there was pretty much everything leading up to calc.

02-14-2006, 05:33 PM

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Originally Posted by jujumantb

There was no calc on the ACT iirc, but there was pretty much everything leading up to calc.

you have a wang in your sig.

c312 · 02-14-2006, 05:43 PM

oh yeah, lots of trig, and the only calc that I remember was maybe a little differential, or that might have been IB exams, i don't remember.

Machette · 02-14-2006, 05:55 PM

Was english a larger part of the exam rather than math?

c312 · 02-14-2006, 06:12 PM

I don't remember but I think the english has more questions because you can answer them faster than math because math you have to do all the calculations and stuff.

Coleman · 02-14-2006, 06:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Machette

Was english a larger part of the exam rather than math?

I took the old SAT's when it was all based out of 1600 points (800 for each section). They're both equally the same in value. Now they added a writing section I believe. No? Which pulls the total score to a 2400.

The math is pretty simple. You'd probably see one or two questions involving sin or cos or something like that. Not anything too difficult. I'm not the best person to ask. I never took those new ones.

Machette · 02-14-2006, 07:16 PM

Probably go to a american university after uol...

Thanks for the help though, moderators can lock now lock the thread, please.

Jotun · 02-14-2006, 07:57 PM

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Originally Posted by c312

I remember math as being a lot of geometry, some algebra, and a little calculus. The other sections are verbal and writing (writing is new as of this year so I didn't have to take it). Verbal is like writing comprehension and analogies, vocabulary, reading proficiency, etc... I didn't think the test was that hard, I got a 1330 which is pretty good.

There is geometry and algebra. There isnt any calculus on it (or at least problems that you need calculus to solve, you could use calculus for some). The math section is fairly simple, its all basic reasoning and the use of some formulas.

The english section is grammar and reading. pretty easy.

writing section is stupid, and doesnt matter.