tailieunhanh - Sat writting essentials 3

Tham khảo tài liệu 'sat writting essentials 3', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | CHAPTER Getting to Know the Writing Section of the New SAT For over 80 years high school juniors and seniors have faced the SAT on their paths to college. During that time the test has undergone some changes. However the new SAT offered for the first time in March 2005 represents the most significant change in the history of the test. What does that mean for the more than two million students who take the test each year They ll miss more of the Saturday on which they take it The old SAT was three hours long and the new one is almost four. Instead of two sections the test now includes three and the top score is 2 400 instead of 1 600. But of even greater importance are the changes within those sections. Let s look more closely at what today s students will encounter with the new SAT. Old versus New Minor changes have been made to the Math and Verbal sections. Math topics have been expanded to include exponential growth absolute value and functional notation. Familiar topics such as linear functions manipulations with exponents and properties of tangent lines are given greater emphasis. Skills such as estimation and number sense will be tested in new formats. The Verbal section is now known as Critical Reading and has added short reading passages while eliminating analogies. The biggest change to the new SAT is the addition of a Writing section however all of the material in this section isn t entirely new. The Writing section has three parts the first two are multiple choice and the last is essay writing. You ll have 35 minutes to complete the multiple-choice section which is broken down into 25- and 10minute parts. It contains the same structure and content as the old SAT II Writing Test which was optional 1 GETTING TO KNOW THE WRITING SECTION OF THE NEW SAT and has now been eliminated and includes 49 questions designed to measure your knowledge of basic grammar and usage rules as well as general writing and revising strategies. The questions consist of three types