SAT Test

The Scholastic Aptitude Test, (SAT) test is controlled by the College Board, a national, nonprofit association founded in 1900 The SAT is the most extensively consistent entrance exam in use in the United States. About 1.8 million students take the SAT exam every year. Students seeking admission into bachelor degree program in colleges in US are required to submit the SAT scores along with their admission forms. The SAT test is a three-hour and forty-five minutes exam that helps in assessing the students’ verbal and mathematical reasoning skills needed during their college years. The SAT scores are helpful in evaluating all the students seeing admission under one common measuring scale. The SAT test sections test the student’s math, vocabulary, and reading knowledge and skills.

SAT scores are considered as a major deciding factor during the college admission process apart from the class rank, high school GPA, extracurricular activities, personal essay, and teacher recommendations-of a student's readiness to do college-level work. Sometimes the SAT scores are also used by colleges to determine the merit-based financial grants to students since most colleges have a preset SAT score range for students seeking admission into their colleges, students are advised to aim for high SAT score to gain admission into colleges of their choice.

The SAT-I test is a test used in measuring the students verbal and math skills, while the SAT-II concerns with subject related topics. Students usually take two or three of the SAT-II test especially international students, whose choices are normally from Math (level I or II), Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Literature, and French.

Since the SAT test helps to evaluate student's reading, writing, and mathematical reasoning abilities, the score sheet usually contain three scores, a critical reading score, a math score and a writing score. The score range of each section would range between 200 to 800 points. As the median score of the SAT test is it is understood that about 50 percent of the students score below 500 and about 50 percent of the students score 500 or above.