<p>What’s the difference between the 2005 and 2006-07 version of the SAT? The reason why I ask is because I own a book called “McGraw-Hill’s SAT I” (published in 2005) and I was wondering if it would be of any use to me now.</p>
<p>they added a writing section (with 25 min essay)
they added some stuff to the math section to make it harder (i think)
and they took ou the analogies in the reading section</p>
<p>The book should still be of use as a reference for practice questions, but you should consider getting an SAT Reasoning prep book.</p>
<p>In the 2005 SAT I book that I have, It says that the 2005 SAT I includes an essay and does not include analogies. What makes this different than the 2006-2007 SAT?</p>
<p>Then it was published after May 2005, so its pretty much the same</p>
<p>The changes in the SAT first appeared on the March 2005 test. The significant changes included:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>elimination of the analogies (my personal favorite section). There were 19 analogies on the old SAT.</p></li>
<li><p>elimination of the 15 quantitative comparisons in the math section. </p></li>
<li><p>a student written essay was added. It accounts for 200 points out of 800 points for that section. The best score is now 2400, not 1600.</p></li>
<li><p>slightly more difficult math has been added. The old SAT was basically 7th, 8th, 9th, with a very little bit of 10th grade. Some 3rd year (11th grade) college prep math has been added.</p></li>
<li><p>by eliminating the analogies, it made more room for additional critical reading questions :(</p></li>
</ul>
<p>All the best,
Tony</p>
<p>No, I don’t think the essay is 200 out of the 800 writing points. It doesn’t quite work out way-- they combine it some weird way. Like with charts. I know it’s not just a portion of it, because otherwise how would it be possible to get an 800 writing without a 12 essay?</p>
<p>And the analogies were replaced with those short little paragraph-length reading things. Those didn’t used to be there.</p>
<p>The essay is scored by two different people with each person giving a score of 1-6. If both scores are a 6, you get 12 raw points for your essay. This is approximately a 200. The other 600 comes from the other questions: error identification, etc.</p>
<p>but ppl can get an 800 with a 9 essay</p>
<p>The title is technically wrong. The exam is now simply called the SAT, not SAT I. (It was called the SAT I when the SAT Subject Tests were named the SAT IIs.)</p>
<p>It is technically called the SAT Reasoning Test.</p>
<p>You cannot get an 800 on the writing section with a 9 essay. If everything elsa was perfect, you’d probably get about 740.</p>