SAT Syllabus

SAT 2011 Syllabus

The SAT syllabus is centered on one significant fact that it has got a vision to connect the K-12 education standards and the higher education standards (college education).

Until, the College Board established the concept of SAT in the year 1900, there was not any proper link between the school education and the college education in the United States of America. It is also said that the school and college education are disconnected to a great level in the USA, than in any other countries. The College Board is a non-profit organization, which was founded with a mission to connect the students to the college education, drastically changed the situation that existed between the school and college education in the country.

Hence, the SAT syllabus in turn encourages the students to take up the test, as the students could relate the SAT test syllabus to the most of the syllabus in the school education. Thus, if the students have strong foundation and clear concepts about the subjects that are taught in the school, then it would be easier for them to crack the SAT exam and thereby to get into the college education. It is basically got to do with the passion of a student for his/her dreamt college/university, i.e. if a student dreams for a college, then he/she has to plan for his/her favorite subjects, depending on the decision of his/her main course/stream.

SAT Syllabus Strategies

There are some unique strategies to get prepared for the SAT exam based on the syllabus of the exam. There are two types of test conducted under the category of SAT examination, namely SAT general teat and SAT subject test. The SAT subject test is said to be taken, when the students have the contents, fresh in their minds, especially for the subject tests, such as biology, chemistry and world history. Hence, it would be better, if such subject tests were taken immediately after the end of the course. However, for language test, it is best if it taken after a long term of preparation, say it may take several years too. This is because, the language syllabus is designed in an involving method, i.e. depth of knowledge and hence, it would be little more complicated in the sense, it would be demanding more logics and concepts of the languages.

Thus, each subject test has its own procedures of SAT questions and hence knowing the SAT syllabus pattern for each subject would definitely make you more clear about the question structure and would place you in a better position to answer those questions. The biology SAT subject test consists of more comfortable questions, whereas the chemistry SAT subject test consists of questions to measure the understanding level of the subject at the college-preparatory level. Likewise, the literature SAT subject test comprises of questions to measure the students’ ability and capacity in understanding the literature and it also measures the application knowledge of the students on the same and similarly, the mathematics SAT subject test consists of questions at the college-preparatory level and there are specific procedures to each language test too, as it comprises of different language test, such as German, French, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish and there are also separate categories to each of this language test.

There are two types of SAT Tests, SAT Reasoning Test (SAT-I) and SAT Subject Tests (SAT-II).

SAT-I

SAT-II (Subject Tests)

The 22 subject tests Include: Writing (with an Essay), Literature, U.S.History, World History, Math Level IC, Math Level IIC, Biology E/M, Chemistry, Physics, French Reading with Listening, Spanish Reading with Listening, Modern Hebrew Reading, Italian Reading, Latin Reading with Listening, Japanese Reading with Listening, Korean Reading with Listening, Chinese Reading with Listening, and the English Language Proficiency Test (ELPT).