Writing
| Time | Question Types | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 60 min. (two 25-min. sections and one 10-min. section) | Multiple choice questions (35 min.) and student-written essay (25 min.) | 200-800 |
Here's what you'll find in the writing section:
- The SAT® begins with an essay. You'll be asked to present and support a point of view on a specific issue. Because you have only 25 minutes, your essay is not expected to be polished—it is meant to be a first draft.
- The SAT writing section also includes three types of multiple-choice questions:
- Improving sentences (25 questions)
- Identifying sentence errors (18 questions)
- Improving paragraphs (6 questions)
The multiple-choice sections measure your ability to:
- communicate ideas clearly and effectively
- improve a piece of writing through revision and editing
- recognize and identify sentence-level errors
- understand grammatical elements and structures and how they relate to each other in a sentence
- recognize correctly formed grammatical structures
- clearly express ideas through sentence-combining and use of transitional words and phrases
- improve coherence of ideas within and among paragraphs
