Prep facts & stats

Question 1

What is the maximum possible score on the SAT?

Accepted Answer

1600. The modern SAT is scored out of 1600 points, combining two sections (Math and Evidence-Based Reading and Writing) worth 800 points each.

Question 2

What is the highest possible composite score on the ACT?

Accepted Answer

36. The ACT's composite score tops out at 36, averaging four subject scores that each also range from 1 to 36.

Question 3

In what year was the ACT first introduced as a competitor to the SAT?

Accepted Answer

1959. The ACT launched in November 1959, created by University of Iowa professor Everett Franklin Lindquist as an alternative to the SAT.

Question 4

Roughly when did the organized SAT test-prep industry begin, with Stanley Kaplan's early tutoring courses?

Accepted Answer

1946. Stanley Kaplan began tutoring students for the SAT in 1946, effectively founding the modern test-prep industry decades before it became a major business.

Prep facts & stats

The basics

What is the maximum possible score on the SAT?

What is the highest possible composite score on the ACT?

Going deeper

Roughly when did the organized SAT test-prep industry begin, with Stanley Kaplan's early tutoring courses?

Expert level

In what year was the ACT first introduced as a competitor to the SAT?