SAT Topics

The College Board organizes all of its SAT problems into eight major categories or domains, four in Reading and Writing, and four in Math. The rosette wheels below display these eight categories and all of their subcategories in proportion to the number of problems in the SAT Practice Problem Databank. If we assume that these proportions are similar to those on real tests, then the sizes of the sectors correspond to your likelihood of meeting that kind of problem on a test. The thin sectors on the outer rim show the proportion of easy, medium, and hard problems, with green representing easy and red representing hard. Take these proportions with a grain of salt, however, because common sense would often place a problem in a different difficulty level than the College Board did. Clicking on any of the domains in the diagrams will take you to a brief discussion of the corresponding topic.