However, the fact that you have 61 more questions to answer on the ACT might be enough for you to make up your mind on which test to take. To be clear, a strategic test-taker will not allot the same amount of time for each question because it’s smarter to sweep through easy questions and take more time on hard ones. Look below for how much time you have for each question in both tests. In other words, the ACT gives much less time per question. But the SAT has 61 questions less than the ACT. The SAT takes three hours, while the ACT without the optional Essay takes two hours, 55 minutes. #9: Are you good with time management during tests? Now that we’ve covered the content, let’s see what differences the two tests have in their format. What are the differences in format between the ACT and SAT? You are asked to give your own opinion on the issue. The optional ACT essay gives you a passage about an issue to read and asks you to analyze different perspectives on this issue. The optional SAT Essay is no longer offered by the College Board unless your state requires it as part of high school graduation. #8: Do you feel comfortable offering your own opinion? So, if you’re bad at science but are taking the ACT, you’re very likely going to worry about your low science score affecting your total score as well. Second, the science section factors into your total score for the ACT. First, having the official section called the science section, the ACT tends to use a lot of scientific language and terms. However, students who struggle with science in general can still feel intimidated by the ACT’s science section for two reasons.
Plus, the ACT science section doesn’t ask for actual scientific facts, such as freezing points or different names of elements on the periodic table. Although the SAT doesn’t have an official section called the science section, other SAT sections still require science concepts, such as skills to read graphs and charts. To be clear, both the ACT and the SAT test on science concepts. With that said, the SAT’s “No Calculator” questions require more reasoning than arithmetic skills. However, note that all questions on both the ACT and SAT math sections can be solved without a calculator. While the ACT math section allows you to use a calculator for all questions, the SAT math section doesn’t allow a calculator for 20 out of 58 questions in total.
#6: Do you struggle without a calculator? Still, the irony is that all of these math formulas pertain to geometry, which isn’t a big part of the SAT math sections. However, the ACT math section doesn’t give any math formulas, but the SAT math section gives most of the major math formulas. The SAT math section focuses mostly on algebra. While geometry and trigonometry make up 35–45 percent and 7 percent on the ACT, respectively, they make up only 10 percent and 5 percent on the SAT.Īlso, the ACT tests a few concepts that the SAT doesn’t test at all, such as matrices, graphs of trig functions and logarithms. To start, the ACT math section covers a wider range of math concepts, with higher focus on geometry and trigonometry than the SAT math section. #5: Are you good with geometry and trigonometry? In the Writing and Reading sections, the SAT tends to test vocabulary a little more than the ACT. While both the ACT and the SAT test grammar in their writing sections, the ACT tends to have more questions on punctuation and sentence structure and the SAT tends to ask more questions on writing style and word/phrase choices. #3: Are you good with punctuation and sentence structure? For example, in the SAT reading section, if you’re unsure about a question that comes second to last, you shouldn’t be looking for an answer in the first paragraph. Even if you’re unsure about a question, you can still guess where in the passage the answer for that question might be hiding by looking at where the question is placed. Unlike in the ACT reading sections, questions in the SAT reading sections always flow in chronological order, meaning the order of the passage to which they refer.
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