![]() ![]() My advice: take every English section in the Official ACT Guide. The questions are even worded similarly to those on the ACT. Other than that, it’s the same old stuff: relevance, tone, subject-verb agreement, idioms, pronouns, possessives, comma splices, putting sentences in logical order. The only real difference is the inclusion of a single graph on one of the passages. It’s called the Official ACT Guide! That’s right: the new SAT Writing and Language section is almost exactly like the ACT English section. If you want more study materials for this section, there’s already a book with 375 practice problems. The rest are new: an article about social networking, a science passage about hibernating bears, and a paired passage about bringing back extinct species. ![]() Two of the passages are old: excerpts from Jane Austin’s Emma and a political piece by Andrew Carnegie. A couple of the passages have charts, but the questions about them are very easy-similar to the easiest questions on the ACT science section. Since they’ve scrapped the fill-in-the-blank vocabulary questions, this is really just a reading comprehension test. Math (calculator): 45 minutes, 31 questions Math (no calculator): 25 minutes, 17 questionsĤ. Writing and Language: 35 minutes, 44 questionsģ. The Official Guide for these tests won’t be available until June, but there are plenty of resources for students who want to start studying now (see below).Ģ. But the content and difficulty level should be very similar to the new SAT. ![]() Juniors will take the PSAT/NMSQT (National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test) in October. Just to be clear this is a PSAT, not an SAT. Scantron-Optical-Scan-Exam-and-Pencil-by-Natalie-Freitas-via-Flickr-CC-BY-SA-2.0Įxciting news! The College Board has just released a new practice PSAT with answer explanations. ![]()
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