Comparison of the SAT and ACT

SAT vs ACT

SAT ACT
  • Order of difficulty
  • No Order of difficulty
  • No Score choice (schools take highest score)
  • Score Choice
  • Highest Math Level - Algebra/Basic Geometry
  • Highest Math Level - Trig (only 2-4 questions)
  • Vocabulary Heavy
  • Grammer & Reading Heavy
  • Scoring: 200 to 800 for each subject, Added together for final score
  • Scoring: 0 to 36 for each subject, Added together for final score

Sections:

Math

Problem Solving, Grid Ins, Quant. Comp 

Verbal:

Analogies, Reading Comp, Sentence Correction

 

Sections:

Math: Problem Solving
English: Passage Sentence Correciton
Reading:  Reading Comp
Science: Reasoning: Tech. Reading Comp
  •  Experimental Section included
  •  If experimental - always last section, usually in June
  • Guessing Penalty - 1/4 pt off for each wrong answer 
  • No guessing penalty 
  •  Not based on school curricululm
  • Based on School Curriculum 
  • Tends to be tricky with many distractors
  • Tends to be straight forward with fewer distractors

 

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