SAT Subject Tests™ | Registration

 The SAT ®The SAT is more than just a test that measures what you learned in high school; it is an essential passport for your college admission journey. The SAT is what colleges want to showcase your skills and potential. Originally developed to increase access to college for all students, the SAT is the most widely used admission test among colleges and universities. It is offered at least seven times a year in the United States and U.S. territories, and six times a year internationally. Here is an overview of the content and timing of the SAT:

The SAT Subject Tests are one-hour tests in English, history, mathematics, sciences and languages. These tests give you an opportunity to demonstrate your knowledge and showcase achievement in specific subject areas. By including these tests in your application portfolio, you can help to differentiate yourself and provide a more complete picture about your interests. Some schools require or recommend SAT Subject Tests as part of the admission process to assess a student’s academic preparation for college. Some schools use them for placement or to advise a student in picking course subjects and levels. Depending on your score and your chosen college’s policies, you may be able to place out of a beginner class or satisfy a basic requirement in certain subjects.

Registering for the Tests

Throughout this Guide, references to “SAT” and “SAT Program”
refer to both SAT and SAT Subject Tests, unless otherwise noted.

Registering Online
Go to sat.org/register, or ask your counselor for flyers that explain
how to locate and use online services and information from the
SAT Program. Registering online lets you:

•   Know immediately what center is available for you, before you pay for your registration.

•  Have 24-hour access to your Admission Ticket to print for test day.

•  Easily order score reports and use Score Choice™ to select scores to send from prior test dates.

Registering by Paper
Although online registration is the best way to register, in the
following cases you may have to register by paper.

• To pay by check or money order

• If you are younger than 13

•  To request Sunday testing for the first time (Repeat Sunday test-takers can register online or by phone. Phone registration

• requires an additional fee.) To request to open a test center nearer to your home

• If you are unable to upload a digital photo of yourself as part of

• the online registration process To register through an SAT Representative

•  Restrictions that apply in certain countries may also require paper registrations. See page 7 for more information.

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Important Requirements Of SAT-1

Test Registration and Test Center Admission

The SAT Program’s policies are designed to give every student a fair and equitable opportunity to demonstrate college readiness and to prevent anyone from gaining an unfair advantage. There are several requirements that apply to the registration and test center admission process to help ensure the integrity of the SAT.

1

Test-Taker Photographs 

You must submit a photo with your registration for SAT exams. ANY REGISTRATIONS THAT ARE SUBMITTED WITHOUT A PHOTO CANNOT BE PROCESSED.
(Test-takers in the eighth grade or below are exempt from this requirement.) If you have any questions or concerns about the photo requirement, you should contact Customer Service at least 30 days prior to your intended test date.

 2
Information Required at Registration 
Certain information is required to register, including your high school (or current school status), grade level, gender and date of birth. Online registrations cannot be completed without this information, and paper registrations will be returned unprocessed if any of this information is missing.

3
Admission Tickets and Acceptable Photo ID Are
Required for Entry to Test Center You must bring your Admission Ticket to the test center —
no one can be admitted without one. You must also bring acceptable photo identification (see page 32). All of the identifying information that you provide during registration, including your photo, will be displayed on your Admission Ticket. The test center staff will match the information on your Admission Ticket and your photo ID with the test center roster to confirm your registration and identity. You cannot be admitted to the test center if any of the information does not match.

4
Standby Testing Is Not Allowed
You may not register at the test center to test standby on the day of the test. See page 6 for options you may have if you miss the last registration deadline.

5 
Test Day Changes Are Not Allowed
You may not make changes to your test center, test date or test type on the day of the test. See Section 5 on pages 27–28 for more information.

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ACT vs. SAT

The SAT has gotten a lot of bad press in recent years, and talk has turned to altogether eliminating standardizedtesting from college admissions. ACT has long avoided much of this controversy, partly because it does not claim to test aptitude or forecast your ability to do well in college—both very subjective factors.For the same reason, many educators and students alike prefer the ACT to the SAT, as they judge it to be a fairer test of students’ knowledge.

Subjective opinions aside, there are some concrete differences between the SAT and the ACT:
The ACT tests limited vocabulary.
The ACT tests trigonometry, English grammar, and science reasoning.
All ACT questions are multiple-choice.
Points are not deducted for incorrect answers on the ACT.
Colleges can view all SAT scores, while students can send their best ACT scores.


Who Takes the ACT?
If you are planning on attending college, chances are you are going to have to take either the SAT or ACT in order to even apply to almost any school. Historically, the ACT has been more popular with schools in the Midwest and West, while the SAT has been the test of choice for students on the East and West Coasts. The popularity of the ACT all over the country has been growing, in part because it is seen as fairer than the SAT in testing students’ knowledge. Today, nearly every college accepts ACT scores and many educators and students alike prefer the ACT because its content more closely matches what is actually taught in school.

When to Take the ACT
The first step in preparing for the ACT is to decide on the date you want to take the test.Your application must be postmarked by the registration deadline, and the cost for normal registration is $24 ($27 in Florida and $40 outside the United States), which includes the reporting of your scores to four colleges. If you miss the deadline, you can still take the test, but you must pay an additional fee of $15. If you manage to miss both the original deadline and the late deadline, there is still hope. You can go standby and hope to get a spot by just showing up early (with an extra $40, in addition to the late fees).

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How To Prepared for the ACT Tests

General Test-Taking
Strategies for the ACT

The ACT contains multiple-choice tests in four areas:  English, Mathematics, Reading, and Science. Each of these tests contains questions that offer either four or five answer choices from which you are to choose the correct, or best, answer. The following suggestions apply to all four tests:


To students approved to test at national test centers with extended time:You will be allowed up to 5 hours total to work on the multiple-choice tests at your own pace, including breaks between tests. If you are taking the ACT Plus Writing, you will be allowed up to 5 hours and 45 minutes total to work on all five tests.


Pace yourself.
The time limits set for each test give nearly everyone enough time to finish all the questions. However, because the English, Reading, and Science Tests contain a considerable amount of text, it is important to pace yourself so you will not spend too much time on one passage. Similarly, try not to
spend too much time puzzling over an answer to a specific problem in the Mathematics Test. Go on to the other questions and come back if there is time. Your supervisor will announce when you have five minutes remaining on each test.

Read the directions for each test carefully.
Before you begin taking one of the tests, read the directions carefully. The English, Reading, and Science Tests ask for the “best” answer. Do not respond as soon as you identify a correct answer. Read and consider all of the answer choices and choose the answer that best responds
to the question. The Mathematics Test asks for the “correct” answer. Read each question carefully to make sure you understand the type of answer required. Then, you may want to work out the answer you feel is correct and look for it among the choices given. If your answer is not among the choices provided, reread the question and consider all of the answer choices.

Read each question carefully.
It is important that you understand what each question asks. Some questions will require you to go through several steps to find the correct or best answer, while others can be answered more quickly.

Answer the easy questions first.
The best strategy for taking the tests is to answer the easy questions and skip the questions you find difficult. After answering all of the easy questions, go back and answer the more difficult questions if you have time.

Use logic on more difficult questions.
When you return to the more difficult questions, try to use logic to eliminate incorrect answers to a question. Compare the answer choices to each other and note how they differ. Such differences may provide clues as to what the question requires. Eliminate as many incorrect answers as you can, then make an educated guess from the remaining answers.



Answer every question.
Your score on the tests will be based only on the number of questions that you answer correctly; there is no penalty for guessing. Thus, you should answer every question within the time allowed for each test.

Review your work.
If there is time left after you have answered every question in a test, go back and check your work on that test. You will not be allowed to go back to any other test or mark responses to a test after time has been called on that test.


Be precise in marking your answer document.
Be sure that you properly fill in the correct ovals on your answer document. Check to be sure that the number of the line of ovals on your answer document is the same as the number of the question you are answering and that you mark only one response for each question.


Erase completely.
If you want to change a multiple-choice answer, be sure to use a soft eraser that will not leave smudges and erase the unintended mark completely. Do not cross out answers or use correction fluid or tape; you must erase. Correction fluid/tape, smudges, or unintended marks may cause errors in scoring.

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Best Engineering University in USA: Civil, Computer & EEC.

Civil

1 University of California – Berkeley – Berkeley, CA

2 University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign – Champaign, IL

3 Georgia Institute of Technology – Atlanta, GA

4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Cambridge, MA

5 Stanford University – Stanford, CA

5 University of Texas-Austin – Austin, TX

7 Purdue University – West Lafayette – West Lafayette, IN

8 University of Michigan--Ann Arbor – Ann Arbor, MI

9 Cornell University – Ithaca, NY

10 Virginia Tech – Blacksburg, VA

11 Texas A&M University--College Station – College Station, TX

12 University of Wisconsin--Madison – Madison, WI

13 Carnegie Mellon University – Pittsburgh, PA

14 California Institute of Technology – Pasadena, CA

14 Pennsylvania State University--University Park – University Park, PA

16 Northwestern University – Evanston, IL

17 Princeton University – Princeton, NJ

18 North Carolina State University – Raleigh – Raleigh, NC

18 University of California—Davis – Davis, CA

20 Lehigh University—Bethlehem, PA

20 University of California—San Diego

20 University of Colorado—Boulder—Boulder, CO

Computer

1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Cambridge, MA

2 Carnegie Mellon University – Pittsburgh, PA

3 Stanford University – Stanford, CA

4 University of California--Berkeley – Berkeley, CA

5 University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign – Champaign, IL

6 Georgia Institute of Technology – Atlanta, GA

7 University of Michigan--Ann Arbor – Ann Arbor, MI

8 University of Texas--Austin – Austin, TX

9 Cornell University—Ithaca, NY

10 California Institute of Technology—Pasadena, CA

11 Princeton University – Princeton, NJ

12 Purdue University--West Lafayette – West Lafayette, IN

13 University of Washington – Seattle, WA

14 University of Wisconsin--Madison – Madison, WI

15 Virginia Tech – Blacksburg, VA

16 University of California—San Diego—La Jolla, CA

16 University of Southern California—Los Angeles, CA

Electrical/Electronic/Communications

1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Cambridge, MA

2 Stanford University – Stanford, CA

3 University of California--Berkeley – Berkeley, CA

4 University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign – Champaign, IL

5 Georgia Institute of Technology – Atlanta, GA

6 University of Michigan--Ann Arbor – Ann Arbor, MI

7 Purdue University--West Lafayette – West Lafayette, IN

8 Carnegie Mellon University – Pittsburgh, PA

9 California Institute of Technology – Pasadena, CA

10 Cornell University – Ithaca, NY

11 University of Texas--Austin – Austin, TX

12 Princeton University – Princeton, NJ

13 University of California –Los Angeles - Los Angeles, CA

14 University of California – San Diego – La Jolla, CA

15 Virginia Tech – Blacksburg, VA

16 University of California—Santa Barbara—Santa Barbara, CA

16 University of Southern California—Los Angeles, CA

18 Duke University—Durham, NC

18 Texas A&M University—College Station—College Station, TX

18 University of Wisconsin—Madison—Madison, WI

2014 Rankings – Published in September 2013

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