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READING/WRITING/ENGLISH

Time Per Question

ACT READING 36s 53s
ENGLISH
SAT READING & WRITING 71s

SAT
ACT 64 minutes Number of Questions Vocabulary

80 minutes What percentage of questions test vocabulary?
SAT ACT ACT READING 8%

54 115 ENGLISH 3%

Reading & Reading & SAT READING & WRITING 19%
Writing English

Do the Reading/Writing/English sections have Passage Length
Graphs and Charts? Avg words per passage

SAT ACT
SAT ACT

50 - 150 Reading 600 - 800

30 - 100 Writing/English 300 - 500
Yes, 3 to 5 Command No, only on the
of Evidence questions Science section
use graphs.

Topics Covered
Number of Reading Passages
• Literature • Social Science • Poetry
SAT 25-29 1 question per passage • Nat. Science • History • Humanities
Distribution of topics varies. Easier adaptive modules
tend to focus on literature; harder adaptove modules
tend to focus on humanities.
4 • Prose Fiction • Humanities

ACT comparison 10 questions ACT Reading passage topics are consistent and
• Natural Science
• Social Science
per passage
appear in the same order on each test.

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