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How the adaptive structure works
Reading and Writing and Math each contain two modules. Your first-module performance helps determine whether your second module is the higher- or lower-difficulty route. Routing affects the score range available, so Module 1 accuracy matters as much as late-test stamina.
- Reading and Writing: 54 questions across two 32-minute modules
- Math: 44 questions across two 35-minute modules
- A 10-minute break separates the two sections
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What Reading and Writing tests
Short passages replace the long reading sets from the paper SAT. Each item focuses on one move: evidence, inference, words in context, text structure, rhetorical synthesis, transitions, or Standard English conventions.
- Information and Ideas
- Craft and Structure
- Expression of Ideas
- Standard English Conventions
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What Math tests
The Math section emphasizes algebraic reasoning, advanced math, data analysis, and selected geometry and trigonometry. Calculator use is allowed throughout, but efficient setup still beats typing every step into a tool.
- Algebra
- Advanced Math
- Problem-Solving and Data Analysis
- Geometry and Trigonometry