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The SAT is now digital and section-adaptive: performance on the first module of each section decides the difficulty of the second, which changes how pacing and accuracy trade off. It matters mainly for applications to US universities, including from students taking A-Levels or the IB.
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Because the second module’s difficulty depends on the first, the early questions of each section carry more weight than their face value suggests, and a rushed start is expensive in a way it was not on the paper SAT.
Anyone practising on pre-2024 paper materials is preparing for a different test, because the format, the timing and the tools available on screen have all changed.
Reading & Writing is now short passages with a single question each, heavy on rhetorical purpose, evidence and grammar conventions. Maths runs from arithmetic to early trigonometry and allows a calculator throughout, so the difficulty is interpretation rather than computation.
For a student who has done GCSE Maths, very little of the SAT maths content is new. The pacing is.
A-Levels and the IB are both well understood by US admissions offices, but the application is a different shape from UCAS: several essays, extracurricular depth, and often an alumni interview. A tutor who has applied from the UK can be useful well beyond the test itself.
No. It is digital and section-adaptive worldwide. Practice material from before that change is preparing you for a different test.
Only for US applications, and many US universities are currently test-optional. Check each one, because policies have been changing year to year.
US universities accept both equally. The ACT includes a science-reasoning section and runs faster; try a timed practice test of each and choose on the result.
Two to three months of regular practice is typical, with full timed tests spaced through it.
The content is largely familiar to a GCSE student. What is different is the pace and the wordiness of the questions.
Many list US college admissions and interview preparation as their own subject, separately from the SAT.
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