SAT-PSAT Practice - February 2024 - How to Practice for the SAT

Sep 14, 2026

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Instructional guidance for school leaders and educators on practicing for the SAT with Essay, PSAT 10, and PSAT 8/9, focused on February 2024 training resources. The agenda covers training offerings, how ISBE shares descriptions, schedules, registration links, presentation slides, and webinar recordings. It provides test overview details, including Reading and Writing content specifications, operational question distribution, and changes for the digital format, as well as Math content domains, skills tested, and updated section structure and pacing.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryExam

FormatPDF

Pages51

Reading Time2 h 9 min

AccessFree to download

Training Offerings

Today’s Agenda

Test Overview

Reading and Writing Content Specifications

Reading and Writing – What Has Changed?

Reading and Writing – Example Questions

Math Content Specifications

Math – What Has Changed?

Math– Example Questions

How to Practice for the SAT with Essay, PSAT 10, and PSAT 8/9 February 2024 Training Offerings All past and upcoming trainings are posted on the ISBE SAT with Essay, PSAT 10, and PSAT 8/9 website under the Presentations & Webinars dropdown. ISBE will post the following prior to each training session: • Description of the training, including intended audience • Dates and times of the training • Registration links to the training ISBE will post the following for training session: • Presentation slides ( .pdf)–available now • Presentation recording – available approximately one week after webinar [https://www.isbe.net/Pages/sat-psat.aspx](https://www.isbe.net/Pages/sat-psat.aspx) Today’s Agenda | Objective | | --- | | To provide instructional school leaders with practice options for their students to prepare for the state of Illinois sponsored spring SAT with Essay, PSAT 10, and PSAT 8/9 . | | Agenda | | --- | | • Test Overview
• Bluebook App
• Khan Academy
• Paper & Pencil
• Educator Question Bank | 3 Test Overview Reading and Writing Content Specifications | Content Domain | Domain Description | Skills/Knowledge Testing Points | Operational Question Distribution | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Craft and Structure | Students will use comprehension, vocabulary, and reasoning skills and knowledge to understand and use highutility words and phrases in context, evaluate texts rhetorically, and make connections between topically related texts. | • Words in Context
• Text Structure and Purpose
• Cross-Text Connections | ≈28% / 13-15 questions | | Information and Ideas | Students will use comprehension, analysis, and reasoning skills and knowledge and the ability to locate, interpret, evaluate, and integrate information and ideas from texts and informational graphics. | • Central Ideas and Details
• Command of Evidence (Textual, Quantitative)
• Inferences | ≈26% / 11-14 questions | | Standard English Conventions | Students will use editing skills and knowledge to make text conform to core conventions of Standard English sentence structure, usage, and punctuation. | • Boundaries
• Form, Structure, and Sense | ≈26% / 11-15 questions | | Expression of Ideas | Students will use the ability to revise texts to improve the effectiveness and to meet specific rhetorical goals. | • Rhetorical Synthesis Transitions | ≈20% / 8-12 questions | Reading and Writing – What Has Changed? | One Section | | --- | | The digital SAT combines Reading and Writing into one 54 question section. | | Discrete Passages | | --- | | The digital SAT provides discrete shorter passages for each individual question. | | More Time Per Question | | --- | | The digital SAT provides students 1.19 minutes per question compared to 1.04 minutes per question with the paper and pencil exam. | | New Question Types | | --- | | The digital SAT includes new types of questions, with new prompts requiring new strategies. | Reading and Writing – Example Questions Paper and Pencil Digital 7 Math Content Specifications | Content Domain | Domain Description | Skills/Knowledge Testing Points | Operational Question Distribution | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Algebra | Students will analyze, fluently solve, and create linear equations and inequalities as well as analyze and fluently solve equations and systems of equations using multiple techniques. | • 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 | ≈35% / 13-15 questions | | Advanced Math | Students will demonstrate the ability to progress to more advanced math courses, including demonstrating an understanding of absolute value, quadratic, exponential, polynomial, rational, radical, and other nonlinear equations | • Equivalent expressions
• Nonlinear equations in one variable and systems of equations in two var

FAQs

Where can educators find ISBE training presentations and recordings for SAT with Essay, PSAT 10, and PSAT 8/9?

Training materials are posted on the ISBE SAT with Essay, PSAT 10, and PSAT 8/9 website under Presentations & Webinars. Presentation slides are available when posted, and recordings become available about one week after the webinar.

What are the main Reading and Writing content domains and how are operational questions distributed?

The domains are Craft and Structure (about 28%), Information and Ideas (about 26%), Standard English Conventions (about 26%), and Expression of Ideas (about 20%). Each domain includes specific skills and testing points.

What changes to expect in the digital SAT for Reading and Writing and for Math?

For Reading and Writing, the digital SAT combines reading and writing into one 54-question section, uses discrete shorter passages per question, and allocates more time per question, with new question types. For Math, it combines Math into one 44-question section, allows a Desmos graphing calculator integrated throughout the test, provides more time per question, and reduces the average word count of math questions.

Sep 14, 2026

Uploaded by Rhys