Questions on the Reading and Writing section represent one of four content domains, shown in the table below. Questions that test similar skills and knowledge are grouped together and arranged from easiest to hardest.

 

• Craft and Structure: This category assesses your ability to understand and use important words and phrases in context, analyze texts, synthesize information, reason effectively, and evaluate texts rhetorically. It also evaluates your capacity to connect related texts on similar topics.
• Information and Ideas: Assesses your understanding, analytical thinking, and reasoning abilities, as well as your knowledge of how to find, interpret, assess, and combine information and ideas from written materials and visual data like tables, bar graphs, and line graphs.
• Standard English Conventions: Assesses the capacity to edit texts to adhere to fundamental rules of sentence structure, language usage, and punctuation in Standard English.
• Expression of Ideas: Assesses the skill to edit and enhance written content to make it more effective and align with particular communication objectives.

 

• Algebra: Assesses the capacity to understand, solve, and generate linear equations and inequalities, and to analyze and proficiently solve equations and systems of equations using various methods.
• Advanced Math: Assesses essential skills and knowledge necessary for advancing to higher-level math courses. This includes demonstrating an understanding of concepts like absolute value, quadratic, exponential, polynomial, rational, radical, and other types of nonlinear equations.
• Problem-Solving and Data Analysis: Assesses the capacity to use quantitative reasoning when dealing with comparisons, rates, and proportional relationships. It involves understanding and applying the concept of unit rate and analyzing and interpreting data with one or two variables.
• Geometry and Trigonometry: Assesses the capacity to solve problems related to measuring area and volume, dealing with angles, triangles, trigonometry, and circles.

Before you take the digital SAT Weekend, you’ll need to know what device you’ll be testing with as well as any device requirements or technical specifications prior to downloading the Bluebook™ testing application. (For in-school testing such as SAT School Day, your school will handle this for you.)

You can run Bluebook on a Windows laptop or tablet, a Mac laptop, an iPad, or a school-managed Chromebook. You can’t run it on a mobile phone. Tech Readiness

Before test day, you’ll need to download Bluebook to the device you’re going to test with. Then 1–5 days before your test, you’ll complete a quick exam setup. The application will confirm that your device meets all requirements, then it will download your test and generate your admission ticket.

If you’re going to test with a personal device, you can download the Bluebook application now and start practicing.
If you have a school-managed device, and you’re able to download applications, you can complete this step yourself. If you’re unable to download applications, ask your school to install Bluebook for you.

There are only a few things you really need to bring on test day and a lot of things you’ll be better off leaving at home. Be sure to bring:

• • Your fully charged testing device with the Bluebook™ application installed (see detailed device requirements).
  • Face covering (if required at your test center).
  • Your up-to-date admission ticket.
  • Acceptable photo ID.
  • Pencils or pens for scratch work.
  • An acceptable calculator for use on the Math section of the test (there will be an embedded graphing calculator available to use within Bluebook).
  • Epinephrine auto-injectors (like EpiPens) are permitted without an approved accommodations. They must be placed in a clear bag and stored under the student’s desk during testing. For policies on other medications and medical devices, contact Services for Students with Disabilities.

Nice to Have

 

• A watch without an audible alarm. (The Bluebook application has a built-in timer that tells you exactly how much time you have left, but you might still want to time your break.)
• A charging cable if your testing device can’t hold a charge for 3 hours.
• A bag or backpack.
• A drink or snacks (for your break).
• A backup testing device.