Questions on the Reading and Writing Section represent one of four content domains:
- Craft and Structure: Measures the comprehension, vocabulary, analysis, synthesis, and reasoning skills and knowledge needed to understand and use high-utility words and phrases in context, evaluate texts rhetorically, and make connections between topically related texts
- Information and Ideas: Measures comprehension, analysis, and reasoning skills and knowledge and the ability to locate, interpret, evaluate, and integrate information and ideas from texts and informational graphics (tables, bar graphs, and line graphs)
- Standard English Conventions: Measures the ability to edit texts to conform to core conventions of Standard English sentence structure, usage, and punctuation
- Expression of Ideas: Measures the ability to revise texts to improve the effectiveness of written expression and to meet specific rhetorical goals
Content |
Testing Points |
Operational Question Distribution |
Craft and Structure |
- Words in Context
- Test Structure and Purpose
- Cross-text Connections
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13-15 questions |
Information and Ideas |
- Central Ideas and Details
- Command of Evidence: Textual and Quantitative
- Inferences
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11-15 questions |
Standard English Conventions |
- Boundaries
- Form, Structure, and Sense
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11-15 questions |
Expression of Ideas |
- Rhetorical Synthesis
- Transitions
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8-12 questions |
- Algebra: Measures the ability to analyze, fluently solve, and create linear equations and inequalities as well as analyze and fluently solve equations and systems of equations using multiple techniques
- Advanced Math: Measures skills and knowledge central for progression to more advanced math courses, including demonstrating an understanding of absolute value, quadratic, exponential, polynomial, rational, radical, and other nonlinear equations
- Problem-Solving and Data Analysis: Measures the ability to apply quantitative reasoning about ratios, rates, and proportional relationships; understand and apply unit rate; and analyze and interpret one- and two-variable data
- Geometry and Trigonometry: Measures the ability to solve problems that focus on area and volume; angles, triangles, and trigonometry; and circles
Content |
Testing Points |
Operational Question Distribution |
Algebra |
- Linear equations in one variable
- Linear equations in two variables
- Linear functions
- Systems of two linear equations in two variables
- Linear inequalities in one or two variables
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13-15 questions |
Advanced Math |
- Equivalent expressions
- Nonlinear equations in one variable and systems of equations in two variables
- Nonlinear functions
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13-15 questions |
Problem-Solving and Data Analysiss |
- Ratios, rates, proportional relationships, and units
- Percentages
- One-variable data: distributions and measures of center and spread
- Two-variable data: models and scatter plots
- Probability and conditional probability
- Inference from sample statistics and margin of error
- Evaluating statistical claims: observational studies and experiments
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5-7 questions |
Geometry and Trigonometry |
- Area and volume
- Lines, angles and triangles
- Right triangles and trigonometry
- Circles
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5-7 questions |