The SAT will be completely digital beginning in March 2024
Below are some changes of note:
- The entire test time will be 25% shorter
- The reading passages are short texts; they are still multiple choice
- Grammar questions are referred to in the question as applying Conventions of Standard English
- The math sections no longer contain a calculator inactive section. All math sections are calculator active. A calculator is included in the Blue Book for the online test and you can bring your own calculator as well
- Turn-around time for test results will be much shorter
- If students answer more difficult questions in the first module correctly, the second module will load more challenging questions
- Students can use their own devices, but must download the Bluebook app
WHAT STAYS THE SAME?
Scoring is still on a 1600 perfect score scale, with Reading and Writing= 800 and Math=800
Students will still take the tests at schools and designated testing sites
You can still use scratch paper during the test
TIMING ON THE TEST
SAMPLE Reading and Writing Questions are below
1.
The following text is adapted from Susan Glaspell’s 1912 short story “‘Out There.’” An elderly shop owner is looking at a picture that he recently acquired and hopes to sell.
It did seem that the picture failed to fit in with the rest of the shop. A persuasive young fellow who claimed he was closing out his stock let the old man have it for what he called a song. It was only a little out-of-the-way store which subsisted chiefly on the framing of pictures. The old man looked around at his views of the city, his pictures of cats and dogs, his flaming bits of landscape. “Don’t belong in here,” he fumed.
And yet the old man was secretly proud of his acquisition. There was a hidden dignity in his scowling as he shuffled about pondering the least ridiculous place for the picture.
Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?
- A) To reveal the shop owner’s conflicted feelings about the new picture
- B) To convey the shop owner’s resentment of the person he got the new picture from
- C) To describe the items that the shop owner most highly prizes
- D) To explain differences between the new picture and other pictures in the shop
2.
The following text is from the 1923 poem “Black Finger” by Angelina Weld Grimké, a Black American writer. A cypress is a type of evergreen tree.
I have just seen a most beautiful thing, Slim and still,
Against a gold, gold sky,
A straight black cypress,
Sensitive,
Exquisite,
A black finger
Pointing upwards.
Why, beautiful still finger, are you black? And why are you pointing upwards?
Which choice best describes the overall structure of the text?
A) The speaker assesses a natural phenomenon, then questions the accuracy of her assessment.
B) The speaker describes a distinctive sight in nature, then ponders what meaning to attribute to that sight.
C) The speaker presents an outdoor scene, then considers a human behavior occurring within that scene.
D) The speaker examines her surroundings, then speculates about their influence on her emotional state.
Find more examples of the new digital test at collegeboard.org
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