A new SAT test replaced the old SAT in 2016 for students in the US to prioritize content that students will see in their future lives.
In March 2016, a new version of the SAT was put in place. This new SAT prioritizes the content and information that students will see in college and their future work lives. The new SAT shows some new improvements and changes from the older version. The old version of the SAT was administered for the last time in January of 2016. The new version was administered for the first time in March of 2016.
To begin, the new version of the SAT has a new method of scoring from the old version. The old SAT's scoring was a scale from 600-2400 with 3 different sections. First, the critical reading section scored from 200-800, the writing and essay section scored from 200-800, and math scored from 200-800. However, the new SAT has a scoring scale of 400-1600 with 2 mandatory sections and an optional essay. The sections are evidence-based reading and
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First, one difference between the both SAT versions and the ACT s the scoring scale used. For the ACT, the scoring is done on a scale from 1-36, unlike the SAT versions, which go up to 2400 and 1600. This causes all of the scoring for each section to be different as well. Unlike the SAT tests, which have 3 or 2 sections, the ACT has 4 total sections. These sections include English, math, reading, and science. The ACT has one math section. Calculators are allowed to be used. Students have a total of 60 minutes to complete these 60 math questions. Next, the ACT has one reading section with 40 questions in 35 minutes. To continue, the ACT English section has a total of 75 questions which students have 45 minutes to complete. The last section of the ACT, the science section, has 40 questions and gives 35 minutes to complete. This is very different from both SAT versions because neither has a science
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