GEOMETRY ON THE SAT
We covered coordinate geometry in Chapter 15. But in addition to coordinate geometry questions, there
will be five or six questions on the SAT that test your knowledge of basic geometry rules. Well, kinda. At
the beginning of each Math section, you are provided with the following:
This box of information contains some of what you’ll need to tackle geometry on the SAT. In this chapter,
we’ll cover how to approach geometry questions and what else you will need to know to handle geometry
questions on the SAT.
Geometry: Basic Approach
For the handful of non-coordinate geometry questions that appear on the SAT, The Princeton Review
recommends this step-by-step approach:
- Draw a figure if a figure is not provided. Also, if there is a figure provided, but the
question has a “Note: figure not drawn to scale” by the figure, you might also want to
redraw the figure using the information in the question. - Label the figure with any information given in the text of the question. Sometimes, you can
plug in for parts of the figure as well.