SAT BASICS
This SAT section tests reading comprehension and grammar skills.
What is the Reading and Writing section?
This is the central message or point of a passage.
What is the main idea?
In SAT passages, students should use nearby sentences to determine a word’s meaning. This is called using this.
What are context clues?
Solve: 3x + 6 = 18
What is x = 4?
MATH: GEOMETRY & TRIGONOMETRY
What is an equilateral triangle?
The SAT is scored on this total point scale.
What is 1600?
Questions asking why an author wrote a passage focus on this.
What is author’s purpose?
If a character is described as “reluctant,” they are most likely feeling this.
What is unwillingness or hesitation?
A store sells notebooks for $5 each. This expression represents the total cost for n notebooks.
What is 5n?
The formula used to find the area of a circle is this.
What is πr²?
This organization creates and administers the SAT.
What is the College Board?
Paired SAT questions usually require students to answer Part A and then find this in Part B.
What is textual evidence?
The word “precise” most nearly means this.
What is exact?
2x − 7 = 15
What is x = 11?
A right triangle has legs of 3 and 4. This is the hypotenuse.
What is 5?
Colleges often use SAT scores for this purpose.
What is college admissions?
Historical documents often discuss government, rights, or this type of freedom.
What is political freedom?
If scientific results are described as “significant,” the word most likely means this.
What is important or meaningful?
If y = 2x + 3, what is y when x = 5?
What is 13?
In a right triangle, sine equals opposite divided by this.
What is the hypotenuse?
The Digital SAT is adaptive, meaning this changes based on your performance.
What is question difficulty?
The emotional attitude an author has toward a topic is called this.
What is tone?
In literature passages, the word “novel” often means this instead of a book.
What is new or original?
A car travels 180 miles in 3 hours. This is the average speed.
What is 60 miles per hour?
The sum of the interior angles of a triangle equals this number of degrees.
What is 180 degrees?