DSAT The New Digital SAT Resources for English

The new Digital SAT is taken by many students from many backgrounds. These resources are to help international students, ESL (English Second Language) students, and every students that needs help with the SAT reading, SAT grammar and the digital SAT English.

SAT Reading and Writing

The Reading and Writing section on the digital SAT is

  • 64 minutes long
  • with 54 multiple-choice questions 
  • in two modules (both 32 minutes long with 27 questions).
  • Each question has a short passage (between 20–150 words)

Adaptive SAT

  • Questions in the first module will range from easier to medium difficulty to hard
  • If you do well in the first module you will get more hard questions in the second module and can obtain a higher score
  • If you do badly in the first module the second module will have more easier questions but you obtain a lower score

SAT Modules

The modules are

  • organized by question type,
  • with similar skills grouped together,
  • questions within each group are presented in order of increasing difficulty

SAT Question Types

Question Types

  1. Craft and Structure 28% 13-15 questions
  2. Information and Ideas 26% 12-14 questions
  3. Standard English Conventions 26% 11-15 questions
  4. Expression of Ideas 20% 8-12 questions

Craft and Structure Questions

  • focus on understanding vocabulary and how passages are organized
  • test your ability to interpret words and text in context
  • some have a pair of short passages
  • Words in Context
  • Text Structure and Purpose
  • Cross-Text Connections

Information and Ideas Questions

  • focus on using information that’s either stated or implied in the text
  • to evaluate the ideas in the text and draw conclusions 
  • Command of textual evidence
  • Command of quantitative evidence
  • Central Ideas and Details
  • Inferences

Standard English Conventions Questions

  • grammar
  • sentence structure, punctuation, and usage
  • Form, Structure, and Sense
    • Subject-verb agreement
    • Pronoun-antecedent agreement
    • Plurals and possessives
    • Verb forms
    • subject-modifier placement
  • Boundaries
    • Linking clauses
    • Supplements
    • Punctuation

Expression of Ideas Questions

  • flow and structure
  • focus on improving the effectiveness of written expression
  • rhetorically effective language
  • Transitions
  • Rhetorical Synthesis

Digital SAT Practice questions - answers

Level 1 Module 1

  1. b
  2. a
  3. c
  4. b
  5. a
  6. a
  7. b
  8. a
  9. b
  10. a
  11. a
  12. c
  13. b
  14. c
  15. b
  16. d
  17. b
  18. c
  19. d
  20. d
  21. c
  22. d
  23. c
  24. a
  25. d
  26. d
  27. b

Level 1 Module 2

  1. c
  2. b
  3. a
  4. a
  5. b
  6. a
  7. a
  8. b
  9. a
  10. b
  11. d
  12. c
  13. a
  14. b
  15. b
  16. d
  17. c
  18. d
  19. c
  20. a
  21. d
  22. a
  23. b
  24. a
  25. d
  26. d
  27. a

Level 2 Module 1

  1. c
  2. c
  3. a
  4. a
  5. c
  6. d
  7. c
  8. a
  9. b
  10. b
  11. b
  12. a
  13. b
  14. b
  15. d
  16. d
  17. a
  18. c
  19. d
  20. a
  21. a
  22. d
  23. a
  24. d
  25. a
  26. b
  27. a

Level 2 Module 2

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