SAT India Pattern 2023: Know Marking Scheme & Exam Duration

SAT exam is conducted five times a year. Aspirants can opt for the exam session as per their convenience and admission cycle of the target university. Given below are the key highlights of SAT India exam pattern. 

The break-up of SAT exam pattern 2023 for both the test sections is as mentioned in the table below. The total exam duration is four hours with breaks in between.

Aspirants can go through the detailed section-wise exam structure of SAT India 2023 below.

SAT India Exam Pattern for Evidence-based Reading Section

In the Evidence-based Reading Section of SAT India 2023, students need to read the passage and thereafter answer the questions asked by making an argument or telling a story or explaining the study/ experiment.

Candidates can expect the below-mentioned types of questions in the SAT India Evidence-based Reading section:

• Information and Idea Generation Questions: These are mostly around the main idea of the reading passage.
• Rhetoric Questions: These are around the tone, style, or meaning conveyed by the passage/ author.
• Synthesis Questions: There mostly are around drawing conclusions and making connections between passages. Such questions may also include graphs/ charts/ tables.

Topics from which passages are usually asked in this section of SAT India include:

SAT Exam Pattern for Evidence based Writing Section

In Evidence based Writing Section of SAT India, students need to read and thereafter edit passages. The passages in this section are mostly argumentative, narrative, informatory or exploratory in nature. The questions asked are broadly from two categories, which are:

• Expression of Idea: There questions help to improve the structure as well as how well the idea has been put forward. It also requires students to improve the language/ words used to explain the idea.
• Standard English Conventions: These questions require students to fix and re-arrange in such a way that sentence structure, grammar and punctuation errors are rectified.

Topics from which passages are usually asked in this section of SAT India include:

SAT India Exam Pattern for Mathematics

This section of SAT India consists of two sub-parts which are – Math with Calculator and Math without a Calculator. In this section, 80% of questions are in multiple-choice format and the remaining 20% are grind-in questions. In grind-in questions, aspirants need to enter the derived answers in the grinds mentioned in the answer sheet.

Math with Calculator part of SAT India, comprises of eight grind-in questions and 30 multiple-choice questions. On the other hand, the Math without Calculator section consists of five grind-in questions and 15 multiple-choice questions.

In the Math section of SAT India, a set of references and formulas are provided to students right at the beginning of the test.

The questions asked in this section of SAT India comprise of questions from three areas, which are:

• Algebra
• Problem Solving and Data Analysis 
• Passport to Advanced Math 

Topics from which questions are asked in SAT India Mathematics sections are mentioned below:

This is an optional section of SAT India. Candidates can go through the SAT India exam highlights for the Essay section given below.

SAT India Exam Pattern for Essay Section

The Essay section of SAT India is optional. However, by going through this section, most colleges develop a better idea of the personality, skill-set, and process of an aspirant. In SAT India with Essay section, aspirants are provided three separate scores on a scale of 2 to 8. 

SAT India Essay section assesses a candidate's skills in spheres such as Reading, Writing, and Analysis of a student’s arguments.

The Essay section contains the below-mentioned points:

• Written for a broader audience
• Expression of viewpoint on complex subjects
• Argument of a point raised
• Use logical reasoning as well as evidence to support claims
• Examination of ideas or trends in the arts/ sciences/ civic/ cultural/ political life

Questions asked in SAT India Subject Tests are not taken from some specific textbook or teaching methods. SAT India Subject Tests comprise of the latest trends in the corresponding subject that are taught in High School courses.

There are five major subject areas for SAT India which are, Mathematics, Science, English, History, and Languages. Further, each subject is further divided into more specialised spheres. The list of SAT India Subject Tests are mentioned in the table below:

Candidates can go through the test pattern for all the Subject Tests of SAT India in the table below:

The composite SAT score ranges from 400 to 1600, which included scores of Evidence-based Reading & Writing (200 to 800 marks) and Math (200 to 800 marks).

For calculation of the SAT score the formula that is applied includes converting the raw score (number correct attempts) to a scaled score from 10 to 40. Scoring may have variations due to difference in difficulty levels of different version of SAT.

To calculate the SAT score, marks obtained in Reading and for Writing and Language is multiplied by 10 to get the Evidence-Based Reading and Writing section score and then they are added together. Similarly, the raw score of Math Test is multiplied by 20 to get the Math section score.

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