The Reading and Writing section of the digital SAT is designed to test students on reading comprehension, rhetoric, and language use by having them engage with academic and literary texts. Skills on the Reading and Writing test can be split into the following four categories:

• Craft and Structure: Determine the meaning of high-utility academic words and phrases in context, evaluate texts rhetorically, and make supportable connections between multiple related texts.
  
  • Cross-Text Connections
  • Text Structure and Purpose
  • Words in Context
• Expression of Ideas: Use revision skills and knowledge to improve the effectiveness of written expression to accomplish specified rhetorical goals.
  
  • Rhetorical Synthesis
  • Transitions
• Information and Ideas: Use, locate, interpret, and evaluate information from various texts and infographics.
  
  • Central Ideas and Details
  • Command of Evidence
  • Inferences
• Standard English Conventions: Use editing skills and knowledge to make texts conform to core conventions of Standard English sentence structure, usage, and punctuation.
  • Boundaries 
  • Form, Structure, and Sense

Reading & Writing passages are no longer than 150 words. Each passage has just one question accompanying it.