The best approach to prepare for the SAT in advance you can select the SAT math topics in school along with your class mathematic as well or join the classes of SAT Prep in Fairfax to cover up all the standard syllabus set by the College Board.

Math is the third and fourth section in the SAT which comes after the reading and writing section of language. The third section of math will be of 25 minutes in which you will be not allowed to use the calculator for the calculations while in the fourth section of math will be of 55 minutes duration and you will be allowed to use the calculator in this section as it would have hardest queries to calculate.

Both sections will have multiple choice questions and each of them will offer four options and you have to select the right one from the choices. It will also have student-produced response questions which are commonly known as “grid-ins” and to solve this section you can use the calculator as well.

Apart from this, the questions based on geometry problems can be one or two in the whole sections while the equations of algebra solving and data interpretation from graphs and tables would be of a large range.

While the College Board may stress on three following categories Heart Algebra, Problem Solving and Data Analysis, and Passport to Advanced Math which will rule the whole section up to 90% and the remaining 10% will be based on additional topics such as geometry, basic trigonometry, and complex numbers. All of these topics are very hard to prepare by the students alone by doing self-practice while the private SAT Prep in Fairfax institute can offer the latest techniques to the student for the better understanding.

Let’s take a closer look at the syllabus the SAT math topics:

Heart of Algebra

The section of the Heart of Algebra in the SAT exam may include linear equations, functions, inequalities, and graphs. The Topics are included:

• Solving linear inequalities and linear equations
• Linear equations and inequality word problems
• Interpreting linear functions
• Linear functions word problems
• Graphing linear equations
• Solving systems of linear equations
• Systems of linear inequalities word problems

Problem Solving and Data Analysis

Under this category, the questions may included about to calculate the rates, percentages, ratios, and data from tables and graphs.

• Ratios, rates, and proportions
• Units
• Percents
• Center, spread, and shape of distributions
• Table data
• Scatterplots
• Linear and exponential growth
• Data collection and conclusions
• Key features of graphs
• Data inferences

Passport to Advanced Math

Under the Passport to Advanced Math section, the questions related to nonlinear expressions, expressions including exponential expressions, quadratic equations, and word problems.

• Solving quadratic equations
• Quadratic and exponential word problems
• Radicals and rational exponents
• Interpreting nonlinear expressions
• Operations with rational expressions and polynomials
• Nonlinear equation graphs
• Polynomial factors and graphs
• Linear and quadratic systems
• Isolating quantities
• Structure in expressions
• Functions