SATSAT (Digital SAT) — college admission test by College Board

The SAT is the College Board's undergraduate admission test and the standard standardised-test credential for Indian students applying to US bachelor's programmes. The current test is fully digital and adaptive: two sections — Reading and Writing, then Math — each split into two equal modules, where performance on the first module determines the difficulty of the second. At 2 hours 14 minutes plus a short break, it is considerably shorter than the old paper SAT, and most questions are multiple choice with some student-produced answers in Math.

Scores remain on the familiar 400–1600 scale, built from two section scores of 200–800, and there is no penalty for wrong answers — guessing after eliminating options is mathematically sensible. In an era when many US colleges are test-optional, a strong SAT score still functions as a differentiator and a scholarship lever, particularly for international applicants whose school grading systems admissions offices know less well. Indian candidates register online and test at authorised centres during the international administrations spread across the year.