SAT Reasoning Test Information for Bangladeshi Students

1. What is SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) Reasoning Test (SAT I)?

The SAT Reasoning Test (SAT I) is a measure of the critical thinking skills you'll need for academic success in college. The SAT I assesses how well you analyze and solve problems—skills you learned in school that you'll need in college.

2. Who Should Take the SAT Reasoning Test (SAT I)?

The SAT I is typically taken by high school juniors and seniors.

3. Who Administer it?

The CollegeBoard.com authority controls SAT Reasoning Test (SAT I).

4. Test Center Address in Dhaka

Notre Dame College, Dhaka.

5. SAT Reasoning Test (SAT I) Test Fee?

The SAT Reasoning Test fee is $US68 including international processing fee. Read more about Fees.

6. How to Register for SAT Reasoning Test (SAT I)?

A. The simplest and quickest way:

1. Visit CollegeBoard.com site and open an account with them. Then you have to go to the following address with your User Name and Password information.

VarsityAdmission.COM

BSRS Bhaban, Level 9 (West)

12 Karwanbazar, Dhaka 1215

Phone: 9140577, 01819-282014

2. Pay the required fee and service charge. More information about charge.

3. Finally, you will get your exam confirmation at your account within three days. You can print your exam ticket from the account with www.CollegeBoard.com

C. If you have International Credit Card

Online Registration: Visit CollegeBoard.com site and follow the instruction.

7. How to Get your SAT Reasoning Score?

A. The simplest and quickest way

1. You have to go to the following address.

VarsityAdmission.COM

BSRS Bhaban, Level 9 (West)

12 Karwanbazar, Dhaka 1215

Phone: 9140577, 01819-282014

2. Pay the required fee and service charge. More information about charge.

B. Through Online

You can also view your SAT I online score report. The SAT I online score report is available free to every student who takes the SAT I on collegeboard.com account.

C. If you have Online Credit Card

Score Reports by Phone:

To get your score by telephone, call (212) 713-7789 (International), during standard business hours. The fee is of $US12.00 for this service.

8. How to send Additional Score Reports?

A. The simplest and quickest way

1. You have to go to the following address.

VarsityAdmission.COM

BSRS Bhaban, Level 9 (West)

12 Karwanbazar, Dhaka 1215

Phone: 9140577, 01819-282014

2. Fee for each additional score report is $9.50. For service charge visit More information about charge.

C. If You Have Online Credit Card

A. Thorough Online:

1. Visit CollegeBoard.com site and follow the instruction.

2. Your scores will be mailed about three weeks after you submit your request.

B. Conventional System

1. Download the Form CollegeBoard.com or get it from American Center at Banani.

2. Print the form and fill up it.

3. Send the Form by postal mail to the following address:

SAT Program

P.O. Box 8057

Mount Vernon, IL 62864.

4. If you are paying by credit card, you can place your order through your online account at www.collegeboard.

9. SAT I Score Scale

a. The SAT has three scores, each on the scale of 200 to 800.

10. How long is SAT I Score Valid?

SAT I score is valid for 5 years.

11. Test Category

SAT includes the following sections with a specific number of questions

A. The Writing Section

B. Critical Reading Section

C. Mathematics Section

A. The Writing Section:

Time: 60 min.

Content: Grammar, usage, and word choice

Item Types: Student-written essay (25 min.), Multiple choice questions (35 min.)

Score: 200-800

-The writing section includes both multiple-choice questions and a direct writing measure in the form of an essay.

Multiple-Choice:

1. The multiple-choice writing questions measure your ability to:

a. Improve sentences and paragraphs.

b. Identify errors (such as diction, grammar, sentence construction, subject-verb agreement, proper word usage, and wordiness)

Try multiple-choice questions:

Identifying Sentence Errors

Improving Sentences

Improving Paragraphs

Short Essay:

1. The short essay measures your ability to:

a. Organize and express ideas clearly.

b. Develop and support the main idea.

c. Use appropriate word choice and sentence structure

2. You'll be asked to develop a point of a view on an issue, using reasoning and evidence — based on your own experiences, readings, or observations — to support your ideas.

Get more information about the essay:

Sample Essay Question

Essay Scoring Guide

B. Critical Reading Section:

Time: 70 min. (two 25-min. sections & one 20-min. section)

Content: Critical reading and sentence-level reading

Item Types: Reading comprehension, sentence completions, and paragraph-length critical reading

Score: 200-800

1. The critical reading section, formerly known as the verbal section, includes short reading passages along with the existing long reading passages.

2. Analogies have been eliminated, but sentence-completion questions and passage-based reading questions remain.

The Critical Reading Section measures:

Sentence Completions

Passage-based Reading

C. Mathematics Section:

Time: 70 min. (two 25-min. sections and one 20-min. section)

Content: Number and operations; algebra and functions; geometry; statistics, probability, and data analysis

Item Types: Five-choice multiple-choice questions and student-produced responses

Score: 200-800

1. The SAT-I includes mathematics topics from up through a third-year college preparatory course, such as exponential growth, absolute value, and functional notation.

2. It also places emphasis on such topics as linear functions, manipulations with exponents, and properties of tangent lines.

3.  Important skills such as estimation and number sense are measured through the multiple-choice and student response (grid-in) questions (formerly measured in the quantitative comparison format).

4. You can use a calculator like four-function, scientific, or graphing calculator.

The Math Section has two types of questions:

Multiple Choice

Student-Produced Response Questions

12. Test, Test Date, or Test Center Changes

1. If a student is registered for a test and wants to change the test, test center, or test date, the student should call SAT customer service no later than the Wednesday that is two and a half weeks before the test date.

2. The Fee is $US21.

3. International Credit card required.

13. Refunds Policy

1. Test and registration fees (including late fees and telephone re-registration fees) cannot be refunded, even if you cancel your test scores or are absent on test day.

2. Most SAT-related fees are transferable but not refundable. The only refundable fees are for:

a. Services you ordered on your Registration Form for a test date that you later missed.
b. Additional score reports that you ordered on your Registration Form for a test date that you later missed.

3. If you ordered QAS (Questions and Answer Service) and your order was not fulfilled, contact www.CollegeBoard.com to find out if you are entitled to a refund.

4. Refunds are processed beginning six weeks after the test date.

Last Update: June 09 2007 12:45:22