What is SAT?

Many college and universities require their applicants to take a three-hour and 45 minute standardized examination called the SAT, commonly referred to as the SAT test. Consequently, most of you as high school juniors and seniors will take this test as part of the college admissions process. The SAT evaluates student's reading, writing, and mathematical reasoning abilities. As a result, you will actually get three scores, a critical reading score, a math score and a writing score, each of which will lie between 200 and 800. For each part of the SAT test the median score is 500, meaning that about 50 percent of all students score below 500 and about 50 percent of all students score 500 or above.