How many verbal questions are on the SAT?

There are 67 Critical Reading questions on the SAT.
- Two 25-minute sections and one 20-minute section
- 48 reading comprehension questions
- 19 sentence completion questions



What type of verbal questions are on the SAT?

Reading Comprehension and Sentence Completions

- Passage-Based Reading: Students will be asked to read short and long passages followed by some multiple-choice questions.

- Sentence Completions: Students will be presented with an incomplete sentence and be asked to finish it with the correct word or words.



What kind of questions are likely to be asked from a passage?

- Vocabulary in Context: In these questions, you will determine the meanings of words from their context in the reading passage.

- Literal Comprehension: T hese questions relate to your understanding of significant information directly stated in the passage.

- Extended Reasoning: These questions measure your ability to fuse and analyse information as well as to evaluate the assumptions made and the techniques used by the author. Most of the reading questions fall into this category. You may be asked to identify cause and effect, make inferences, recognize a main idea or an author's tone, and understand.