Hi! I’d just like to know exactly how many fiction passages there are on the actual SSAT - like does it constitute the majority of the test or are there only one or two passages, etc. I’ve taken the practice tests on the SSAT website and have seen that there are far more fiction passages than any others - a good 20 fiction questions out of a total of 40. Is this true for the actual test as well?
I took the SSAT over a year ago and I recall more non-fiction than fiction; however, my memory may be flawed.
I took the SSAT 2 years ago and am planning to take one this October or November. I actually remember there being a bit more fiction than nonfiction, but keep in mind that every test is different. Maybe it has to do with the level of SSAT you’re taking as well.
Thank you both for your replies 
If you don’t mind me asking, what was the level of difficulty for the fiction passages? Were they complicated literature passages or more straightforward?
Two years ago, there seemed to be more fiction - variability of content type and style. There was also one long poem. Tests differ from sitting to sitting. Variability between tests, it seemed.
I bought the SSAT official practice thing from their website, and it was WAYYYY harder than the actual thing. I would get like 1/3 wrong on the practice, but managed to do pretty good on the actual thing. Some of the vocabulary used in the passages were words I’d never seen before, but they were pretty easy to infer. The hardest passage for me was a particular poetry passage, and I still can’t get over it. IMO poetry and fiction may be the hardest types of passages.