SAT Geometry and Trigonometry Practice

What the test measures

Geometry and Trigonometry skills

Area and volume
Lines, angles, and triangles
Right triangles and trigonometry
Circles

Standards basis

Common Core State Standards (CCSS-M)-aligned college- and career-ready math content — national

How the SAT reports it

The SAT Math section uses College Board’s SAT Suite content-domains framework, with a single fixed set of four math domains used across SAT suite tests. It is aligned to college- and career-ready math content rather than a state-specific framework and is commonly presented as Common Core–aligned in the underlying skills coverage.

Blueprint & weighting

College Board publishes the question distribution per domain for the digital SAT Math section: Algebra ≈35% (13–15 questions), Advanced Math ≈35% (13–15 questions), Problem-Solving and Data Analysis ≈15% (5–7 questions), Geometry and Trigonometry ≈15% (5–7 questions) of 44 questions total, split across 2 modules, with calculators allowed throughout.

Official sources

College Board — What Are Content Domains?
College Board — The Math Section
College Board — SAT

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Practice playeasy

Two lines cross. One angle formed is $20°$ . What is the vertical angle?

Vertical angles are equal: $20°$ .

Practice playeasy

Find the area of a parallelogram with base $b = 4$ and height $h = 6$ .

Parallelogram area $= b \cdot h = 4 \cdot 6 = 24$ .

Practice playeasy

In $\triangle XYZ$ , $\angle X$ and $\angle Z$ are congruent. The measure of $\angle Y$ is $52.6^{\circ}$ . What is the measure of $\angle X$ ?

The two congruent angles share the remainder equally: $\dfrac{180^{\circ} - 52.6^{\circ}}{2} = 63.7^{\circ}$ .

Practice playhard

A rectangular prism has a square base and height $6$ meters. Its volume is $96$ cubic meters. What is the side length of the base, in meters?

$V = s^2 h$ , so $96 = s^2 \cdot 6$ and $s^2 = 16$ . Then $s = 4\text{ m}\textsf{.}$

Practice playeasy

What is the sum of the interior angles of a pentagon?

A pentagon has $5$ sides: $(5-2) \times 180 = 540°$ .

Practice playmedium

A paint store sells open-top metal cans with radius $2$ inches and height $6$ inches. The cans have a bottom but no lid. What is the exterior surface area, in square inches, of one open can?

An open can has one circular base and a lateral surface: $SA = \pi r^2 + 2\pi rh$ . With $r = 2$ and $h = 6$ , $SA = \pi(4) + 2\pi(2)(6) = 4\pi + 24\pi = 28\pi$ square inches.