The SAT is a test given to potential college students while they are still in high school to see where they stand academically against all other college bound students who take the test. While it is also mostly english and math based, it is a standardized test that all interested juniors and seniors take all over the country.

The SATs are tests used to determine your eligibility into college. So high (or low) SAT scores in math for example do not place you into a specific math level, ie, a 550 in the Math section of the SATs won’t place you into Calculus, but if you’ve had Calculus in high school you’ll generally do better on the math portion of the SATs.