1. New SAT:
Compare SAT Specifications
Get an overview of how the new SAT differs from the one students took before March 2016. The first table compares the major features. The second table compares the number of items and testing times in each part.
Major Features Compared
Test Length and Timing Compared
2. ACT:
ACT consists of English(75), Math(60), Reading(40), Science reasoning(40), and Writing(optional) tests. Questions in ACT tests are 215 in total and its highest composite score is 36. SAT has been more popular rather than ACT so far, but a recent research has found that nearly 130 millions of students took ACT in the years of 2006 and 2007. And the numbers taking ACT have been being increasingly bigger over the years. Many of top colleges use ACT and those colleges using ACT are now three times as many as they were in the past. If a student is very good at math and science, it can be possible that he can do better in ACT, compared to when taking SAT.