SAT vs ACT: Key Similarities & Dissimilarities

SAT vs ACT KEY SIMILARITIES

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ACT vs SAT:

Two major entrance exams for professional studies in United States.

Which one is best fit for your student?

Most of the students would like to prefer ACT compare to SAT tests.

Though confused about which one is best suitable for you? Here are the basic similarities & dissimilarities that clear your confusion about both tests.

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Similarities 1. Type of test: Both SAT and ACT tests are content based tests.

2. Number of sections: Both have 4 sections excluding Essay 3. Wrong Answer penalty: There is no negative marketing for wrong answers in both tests. No penalty for wrong answers.

4. Reading Section: The two tests' reading sections have become much more similar.

Format: 4 single passages and 1 pair, 10­11 questions each in both tests.

Types of Questions: Main Idea, Vocab­in­Context, Inference, Detail­ Oriented in both tests.

Key Skills required: Reading comprehension, inferring ideas, identifying evidence for both SAT and ACT. 5. Score Choice: you can choose which set(s) of SAT & ACT scores to submit to colleges.

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Dissimilarities Add a little bit of body text SAT

Test Format

Reading : 65­min section Math : 80­min section Langauge : 35­min section Essay : 50­min section

ACT

Reading : 45­min section Math : 60­min section Reading : 35­min section; Science : 35­min section; Writing : 40­min essay

Straightforward but long.

Test Style

Context based, based on real­world situations, multi­step problem solving

Difficulty Levels

Questions increase in difficulty level as you move through that question type in a section

Difficulty level of the questions is random

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Dissimilarities Scoring

Grading Critera

SAT

ACT

Given a score from 2­8 for each dimension.

Score from 1­12, based on average of scores from the four domains

Writing, Reading, and Analysis.

Math Levels

Arithmetic, problem­solving & data analysis, heart of algebra, geometry, and trigonometry; formulas provided.

Acceptance

Accepted by all US colleges.

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Ideas and Analysis, Development and Support, Organization, and Language Use and Conventions.

Arithmetic, algebra I and II, functions, geometry, trigonometry; no formulas are provided The ACT is accepted by all colleges and universities in the US & more than 225 other universities around the world.

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