2. 1 2 3 Welcome! ACT Updates PSAT & SAT Overhaul The Transition Year
Your Student

3. Updated ACT Overview Scoring Math Reading Category Features
No changes to 1-36 scoring
New scores reported
ELA
STEM
Career Readiness
Text Complexity
Scoring
Math
More probability & statistics
Reading
New paired passages

4. Updated ACT Overview Essay Category Features
Now requires analysis of 3 different perspectives
More scores provided
Ideas and analysis
Development and support
Organization
Language use
Essay

5. New SAT Overview Timing Scoring Category Features
3 hours, 50 minutes
Now scored on a scale of 1600
Evidence-Based Reading & Writing
Math
New optional Essay scored separately
No guessing penalty
Scoring

6. Test & Cross-Test Scores
Scoring Details
Composite Score
Sum of the two Area Scores
Range of
Area Score
Math
Range of
Area Score
Evidence-Based Reading + Writing
Range of
Test & Cross-Test Scores
3 Test Scores: Math, Reading, and Writing & Language
2 Cross-Test Scores: Science, History/Social Studies
Range of

7. New SAT Overview Category Features Evidence-based
Reading and Writing combined
Reading details:
No sentence completions
Passage topics include US and World Literature, History/Social Studies, and Sciences ( words)
65 minutes
Writing and Language details:
Focus on extended prose ( words)
35 minutes
Evidence-based
Reading & Writing Section

8. New SAT Overview Math Section Category Features
Three areas of concentrated focus:
Problem solving and data analysis
“The Heart of Algebra”
“Passport to Advanced Math”
Math fluency emphasized
25 minutes without a Calculator
55 minutes with a Calculator
Item Sets
Math
Section

9. New SAT Overview Essay Category Features Essay is optional 50 minutes
Requires students to analyze a word document and explain how the author builds an argument
3 Scores (2-8)
Reading
Analysis
Writing
Essay

10. New Essay Prompt

11. New PSAT/NMSQT Overview
Category
Features
Timing
2 hours, 45 minutes
Structure
Aligned with the New SAT, and almost the same length
No Essay
No guessing penalty
Now scored on a scale of 1520
Evidence-Based Reading & Writing
Math
Scoring

12. PSAT & New SAT Scoring SAT: 400-1600 PSAT/NMSQT: 320-1520
Composite Score Range

13. How is the Test Changing?
Data Analysis/Problem Solving
Number & Operations
Reading Comprehension
Grammar/Usage/Mechanics
Words in Context
Evidence-based
Algebra
SAT Words
Rhetorical Skills
Rhetorical Skills
Geometry
Geometry
Algebra
Essay
Trig
Reading
Math
Writing & Language

14. New SAT and ACT: 5 Key Differences
The New SAT has a greater focus on History & Social Studies passages
Both focus on Algebra, but the New SAT has a greater emphasis on Data Analysis & Problem Solving
The ACT requires more Science reading
The New SAT requires more mental math
The New SAT has grid-in questions, and an extended thinking grid-in question
ACT?
New SAT?
What’s the Difference?

15. ACT: Enhanced Scoring + Writing Test PSAT: New Test Launches
Test Change Timeline
ACT: Enhanced Scoring + Writing Test
PSAT: New Test Launches
SAT:
New Test Launches
SAT:
2nd to Last Current Test
SAT:
Last Current Test
Sept Oct Dec Jan Mar2016

16. New SAT and College Admissions
First New SAT administration
21 days + up to 4 weeks for scores to be available
New SAT Concordance tables
Released in December for the PSAT and May for the SAT
New and Old SAT scores
Schools will accept both scores for a 3-year transition period

17. Open Questions Will schools “Superscore” the Old & New?
Will schools require the optional Essay?
What impact will Test and Cross-Test Scores have on admissions?

18. Test Options Class of 2018 and Younger Class of 2017 Current SAT ACT
New SAT

19. Test Paths Student Profile Potential Test Path New SAT Early Decision
APs and Subject Tests
Current SAT or ACT
Regular Decision
ACT not an option
New SAT
Great Test Taker
Current SAT & New SAT & ACT
Anxious test taker
Obvious strengths with one test
Current SAT or New SAT or ACT

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