About the SAT
Real Number System
Backsolving/Picking Numbers
Grid-Ins
Test Day
100
The number of sections on each SAT Test.
What is 10?
100
Numbers that are greater than one and only have two factors; 1 and the number itself.
What are prime numbers?
100
The strategy to use when the answer choices are numbers and the question is asking for the value of a variable.
What is Backsolving?
100
10
What is the number of scored grid-in questions?
100
The number of times the SAT Reasoning Test is offered each school year.
What is 7.
200
The three sections of content on the SAT.
What is Math, Reading and Writing?
200
All of the numbers that a given number is evenly divisible by.
What are factors?
200
The answer choice that is usually a good idea to start with when using Backsolving.
What is C?
200
negative, irrational or numbers greater than 9999
What are the kind of numbers that cannot be answers to grid-in questions?
200
The amount of scored sections on each test.
What are 9?
300
The first section of every SAT test. This section is also the only one that is not scored by a machine.
What is the essay?
300
Whole numbers and their opposites.
What are integers?
300
The strategy used when the answer choices contain variables or algebraic expressions.
What is Picking Numbers?
300
0
What is the number of points deducted for answering a grid-in wrong?
300
Calculator, extra batteries, photo ID, admission ticket, watch, and a snack
What are items you should bring along on test day?
400
The score that is calculated by subtracting a quarter of the incorrectly answered multiple choice questions from the number of questions answered correctly in each of the three sections.
What is the raw score?
400
0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, ...
What are whole numbers?
400
In this strategy you must go through each answer choice to make sure that only one works. If you get more than one correct answer, you must go through the strategy a second time.
What is Picking Numbers?
400
1
What is the number of points awarded for answering a grid-in question correctly?
400
3 hours and 45 minutes
What is the length of the test?
500
The number of scored SAT math questions on every SAT Reasoning Test.
What is 54?
500
Numbers that are evenly divisible by a given number. You get them by multiplying the given number by the natural numbers.
What are multiples?
500
Usually this is the best number to pick when dealing with problems on percents.
What is 100?
500
A mixed number
What is the type of number that must be converted before being able to grid-in?
500
$52.50
What is the cost of the test?
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