Domain 1
Topics in SAT/ACT
Domain 2
English
Fun SATs/ ACT Facts
100

Information and Ideas

What is Information and Ideas measures your ability to locate, interpret, evaluate, and integrate information from short texts and informational graphics like tables and graphs.

100

What former words did the acronym "SAT" originally stand for?

What is Scholastic Aptitude Test

100

Craft and Structure

What is Craft and Structure measures your ability to work with high-utility vocabulary in context, evaluate how texts are built and why, and make connections between related texts.

100

This famous 7-letter acronym helps you remember the coordinating conjunctions (For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So) used to join independent clauses.

What is FANBOYS?

100

Do you have to follow the order of questions?

FALSE: Hint: You can flag difficult questions, skip them, and return to them later within that module or section.

200

Inference

Inference questions ask you to determine what a passage strongly implies but doesn't directly state — using only the evidence given, not outside knowledge.

200

This is the golden rule for answering questions on the ACT when you are running out of time and about to turn in your digital work

What is the answer to all questions? There is no penalty for guessing on the ACT)

200

Cross-text Connections

This skill tests your ability to compare and synthesize the relationship between two related texts — where they agree, disagree, or how one might respond to the other.

200

What is Standard English Conventions? 

What is evaluates core grammar, sentence boundaries, usage, and punctuation rules (such as commas, semicolons, and modifiers). [1, 2]

200

The ACT is now more popular than the SAT? 

True or False



True 1.85 million students from the class of 2014 took the ACT and 1.67 million took the SAT.

300

Main Idea and Details

What is This skill checks whether you can identify a passage's central point rather than a smaller supporting detail. The main idea is the "big picture" that every detail in the passage supports.

300

This specific subject is tested on the ACT as a dedicated section, but it does not exist as a separate section on the SAT.

 What is Science? 

300

Purpose

What is This skill tests your ability to identify why the author wrote the passage — to inform, persuade, describe, argue, or entertain.

300

Analytical, text-heavy, and logical; feels like a puzzle.

What is ACT? 

300

When was the ACT created? 

A. 1986

B. 1952

C. 1959

D. 1990

400

Command of Textual Evidence

What is This skill asks you to find the exact quotation, detail, or piece of evidence in a text that best supports a given claim or answers a question — not just something related to it.

400

This is the only section on the Digital SAT Math where you type in your own answer instead of picking A, B, C, or D.

What is What are Student-Produced Responses (Grid-Ins)?

400
Text and Structure 

What is This skill tests your understanding of how a text is organized and how specific parts — sentences or paragraphs — function within the whole.

400

Long passages with 9 to 10 questions grouped together.

What is ACTs? 

400

Are there dummy questions in SAT?

YES!!!Yes, the SAT includes unscored "dummy" or experimental questions

500

Command of Quantitative Evidence

What is This skill tests your ability to use data in a table or graph to support — or refute — a claim made in the accompanying text.

500

Scope and relevance are just as important to ACT Science as they are to ACT Reading.

What is True?

500

Words in Context

What is This skill asks you to determine the precise meaning of a word or phrase as used in a specific sentence — not just its most common dictionary definition.

500

When two multiple-choice grammar options mean basically the same thing on the ACT/SAT, test-makers suggest picking this one.

What is the shortest answer?

500

When was SATs created?

What is The SAT was first administered on June 23, 1926, as an aptitude test based on World War I Army IQ evaluations

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