Overview: Current SAT vs. Redesigned SAT

*Redesigned SAT testing time subject to research

1. Critical Reading
2. Writing
3. Mathematics
4. Essay

1. Evidence-Based Reading and Writing
   • Reading Test
   • Writing and Language Test
2. Math
3. Essay (optional)

• Emphasis on general reasoning skills
• Emphasis on vocabulary, often in limited contexts
• Complex scoring (a point for a correct answer and a deduction for an incorrect answer; blank responses have no impact on scores)

• Continued emphasis on reasoning alongside a clearer, stronger focus on the knowledge, skills, and understandings most important for college and career readiness and success
• Greater emphasis on the meaning of words in extended contexts and on how word choice shapes meaning, tone, and impact
• Rights-only scoring (a point for a correct answer but no deduction for an incorrect answer; blank responses have no impact on scores)

• Required and given at the beginning of the SAT
• 25 minutes to write the essay
• Tests writing skill; students take a position on a presented issue

• Optional and given at the end of the SAT; postsecondary institutions determine whether they will require the Essay for admission
• 50 minutes to write the essay
• Tests reading, analysis, and writing skills; students produce a written analysis of a provided source text

*Redesigned SAT scores subject to research

• Scale ranging from 600 to 2400
• Scale ranging from 200 to 800 for Critical Reading; 200 to 800 for Mathematics; 200 to 800 for Writing
• Essay results scaled to multiple-choice Writing

• Scale ranging from 400 to 1600
• Scale ranging from 200 to 800 for Evidence-Based Reading and Writing; 200 to 800 for Math; 2 to 8 on each of three traits for Essay
• Essay results reported separately