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📖 Reading & Writing Section - Content Domains

1. Information and Ideas Domain

Measures comprehension, analysis, and reasoning skills and the ability to locate, interpret, evaluate, and integrate information and ideas from texts and informational graphics.

Key Skills:

Textual Evidence Analysis: Support interpretations by referencing specific words, phrases, or passages that directly relate to claims or conclusions
Main Ideas: Identify central claims or thesis that entire passages support - broader than specific details but more focused than general topics
Explicit vs. Implicit Information: Distinguish between directly stated information and information that must be inferred from context clues and logical reasoning
Graph and Chart Analysis: Focus on titles, axis labels, data trends, key data points, and relationships between visual information and text claims

2. Craft and Structure Domain

Tests understanding of how texts are structured and the rhetorical choices authors make to achieve their purposes and convey meaning.

Key Skills:

Words in Context: Use surrounding words, tone, and grammatical function to determine meaning
Transitions: Understand contrast (however), cause-effect (therefore), addition (furthermore)
Author's Tone: Analyze word choice and attitude - formal, critical, supportive, etc.
Purpose vs. Tone: WHY author wrote (purpose) vs. HOW they feel (tone)

3. Expression of Ideas Domain

Tests revision skills for topic development, logic, cohesion, and clear, concise expression of ideas.

Key Skills:

Organization: Clear topic sentences, relevant details, logical flow, transitions
Conciseness: Eliminate redundancy, combine sentences, choose precise words
Sentence Revision: Add/delete based on relevance and logical fit
Parallelism: Consistent structure ("reading, writing, studying" not "reading, to write, study")

4. Standard English Conventions Domain

Covers editing skills for sentence structure, usage, and punctuation including command of sentence boundaries and coordination.

Key Skills:

Comma Splices: Fix with semicolons, conjunctions, dependent clauses, or separate sentences
Semicolons: Join related clauses, complex lists, before conjunctive adverbs
Who vs. Whom: "Who" = subject (he/she), "whom" = object (him/her)
Agreement: Subject-verb, pronoun-antecedent, watch for collective nouns

🔢 Math Section - Content Domains

1. Algebra Domain

Linear equations, functions, systems of equations, and linear inequalities in one or two variables.

Key Concepts:

Slope-Intercept Form: y = mx + b (m = slope, b = y-intercept)
Systems by Substitution: Solve for one variable, substitute, solve, check
No Solution: Parallel lines (same slope, different y-intercepts)
Linear Inequalities: Graph by shading appropriate regions

2. Advanced Math Domain

Nonlinear equations, quadratics, exponentials, polynomials, and complex mathematical relationships.

Key Concepts:

Vertex Form: f(x) = a(x - h)² + k where (h,k) is vertex
Quadratic Formula: x = (-b ± √(b²-4ac))/2a
Discriminant: b² - 4ac (positive = 2 solutions, zero = 1, negative = none)
Factoring: Find numbers that multiply to ac and add to b

3. Problem-Solving and Data Analysis

Ratios, percentages, statistical data analysis, and real-world mathematical applications.

Key Concepts:

Proportions: a/b = c/d, cross multiply (ad = bc)
Statistics: Mean (average), Median (middle), Mode (most frequent)
Percent Change: [(new - original) ÷ original] × 100%
Correlation ≠ Causation: Statistical relationship vs. direct cause

4. Geometry and Trigonometry

Area/volume formulas, triangles, circles, coordinate geometry, and basic trigonometry.

Key Concepts:

SOH-CAH-TOA: sin = opp/hyp, cos = adj/hyp, tan = opp/adj
Pythagorean: a² + b² = c² (c = hypotenuse)
Circle Area: πr² (circumference = 2πr)
Inscribed Angles: ½ the central angle subtending same arc

📖 Reading & Writing Section - Content Domains

1. Information and Ideas Domain

Measures comprehension, analysis, and reasoning skills and the ability to locate, interpret, evaluate, and integrate information and ideas from texts and informational graphics.

Key Skills:

Textual Evidence Analysis: Support interpretations by referencing specific words, phrases, or passages that directly relate to claims or conclusions
Main Ideas: Identify central claims or thesis that entire passages support - broader than specific details but more focused than general topics
Explicit vs. Implicit Information: Distinguish between directly stated information and information that must be inferred from context clues and logical reasoning
Graph and Chart Analysis: Focus on titles, axis labels, data trends, key data points, and relationships between visual information and text claims

2. Craft and Structure Domain

Tests understanding of how texts are structured and the rhetorical choices authors make to achieve their purposes and convey meaning.

Key Skills:

Words in Context: Use surrounding words, tone, and grammatical function to determine meaning
Transitions: Understand contrast (however), cause-effect (therefore), addition (furthermore)
Author's Tone: Analyze word choice and attitude - formal, critical, supportive, etc.
Purpose vs. Tone: WHY author wrote (purpose) vs. HOW they feel (tone)

3. Expression of Ideas Domain

Tests revision skills for topic development, logic, cohesion, and clear, concise expression of ideas.

Key Skills:

Organization: Clear topic sentences, relevant details, logical flow, transitions
Conciseness: Eliminate redundancy, combine sentences, choose precise words
Sentence Revision: Add/delete based on relevance and logical fit
Parallelism: Consistent structure ("reading, writing, studying" not "reading, to write, study")

4. Standard English Conventions Domain

Covers editing skills for sentence structure, usage, and punctuation including command of sentence boundaries and coordination.

Key Skills:

Comma Splices: Fix with semicolons, conjunctions, dependent clauses, or separate sentences
Semicolons: Join related clauses, complex lists, before conjunctive adverbs
Who vs. Whom: "Who" = subject (he/she), "whom" = object (him/her)
Agreement: Subject-verb, pronoun-antecedent, watch for collective nouns

🔢 Math Section - Content Domains

1. Algebra Domain

Linear equations, functions, systems of equations, and linear inequalities in one or two variables.

Key Concepts:

Slope-Intercept Form: y = mx + b (m = slope, b = y-intercept)
Systems by Substitution: Solve for one variable, substitute, solve, check
No Solution: Parallel lines (same slope, different y-intercepts)
Linear Inequalities: Graph by shading appropriate regions

2. Advanced Math Domain

Nonlinear equations, quadratics, exponentials, polynomials, and complex mathematical relationships.

Key Concepts:

Vertex Form: f(x) = a(x - h)² + k where (h,k) is vertex
Quadratic Formula: x = (-b ± √(b²-4ac))/2a
Discriminant: b² - 4ac (positive = 2 solutions, zero = 1, negative = none)
Factoring: Find numbers that multiply to ac and add to b

3. Problem-Solving and Data Analysis

Ratios, percentages, statistical data analysis, and real-world mathematical applications.

Key Concepts:

Proportions: a/b = c/d, cross multiply (ad = bc)
Statistics: Mean (average), Median (middle), Mode (most frequent)
Percent Change: [(new - original) ÷ original] × 100%
Correlation ≠ Causation: Statistical relationship vs. direct cause

4. Geometry and Trigonometry

Area/volume formulas, triangles, circles, coordinate geometry, and basic trigonometry.

Key Concepts:

SOH-CAH-TOA: sin = opp/hyp, cos = adj/hyp, tan = opp/adj
Pythagorean: a² + b² = c² (c = hypotenuse)
Circle Area: πr² (circumference = 2πr)
Inscribed Angles: ½ the central angle subtending same arc

SAT Study Notes

📋 Exam Overview

College Board SAT

Test Structure

📖 Reading & Writing Section - Content Domains

1. Information and Ideas Domain

Key Skills:

2. Craft and Structure Domain

Key Skills:

3. Expression of Ideas Domain

Key Skills:

4. Standard English Conventions Domain

Key Skills:

🔢 Math Section - Content Domains

1. Algebra Domain

Key Concepts:

2. Advanced Math Domain

Key Concepts:

3. Problem-Solving and Data Analysis

Key Concepts:

4. Geometry and Trigonometry

Key Concepts:

🎯 Continue Your SAT Preparation

SAT Study Notes

📋 Exam Overview

College Board SAT

Test Structure

📖 Reading & Writing Section - Content Domains

1. Information and Ideas Domain

Key Skills:

2. Craft and Structure Domain

Key Skills:

3. Expression of Ideas Domain

Key Skills:

4. Standard English Conventions Domain

Key Skills:

🔢 Math Section - Content Domains

1. Algebra Domain

Key Concepts:

2. Advanced Math Domain

Key Concepts:

3. Problem-Solving and Data Analysis

Key Concepts:

4. Geometry and Trigonometry

Key Concepts:

🎯 Continue Your SAT Preparation