The following information was excerpted from The College Panda SAT Writing Guide and Workbook, an excellent resource.
- Relevance and Purpose (4-10 questions)
- Word Choice (3-7 questions)
- Commas, dashes, and colons (4-9 questions)
- Redundancy (2-4 questions)
- Run-ons (2-3 questions)
- Pronoun Reference (2-3 questions)
- Placement--Sentences, Paragraphs (2-3 questions)
- Combining Sentences (2 questions)
- Transititions (1-5 questions)
- Subject-Verb Agreement (1-3 questions)
- Awkward Phrasing (1-3 questions)
- Apostrophes (1-2 questions)
- Data Interpretation (1-2 questions)
- Parallelism (1-2 questions)
- Tenses Errors (0-2 questions)
- Sentence Fragments (0-2 questions)
- Idioms (0-2 questions)
- Modifiers (0-2 questions)
- Sentence and Paragraph Transitions (0-1 question)
- Who vs. Whom (0-1 question)
- Shift in Point of View (0-1 question)