A topic-by-topic breakdown of math questions on the SAT — May 2025 (Digital, US) sitting. Use this to find which study topic each question is testing, and re-drill the ones you missed.
SAT Math Spring 2025 8 featured questions
The SAT — May 2025 (Digital, US) paper covered every category in the SAT Math taxonomy. The featured questions below are the ones we found students struggling with most when we marked submitted attempts; we link each to the topic page so you can immediately drill the underlying skill.
Most students who stalled on this paper did so because of a small handful of weak topics — typically two or three categories. The pattern in your wrong answers is more important than your raw score, so look at which topics show up below, not just how many you missed.
Factoring Polynomials — Question 38 on the SAT — May 2025 (Digital, US) test draws on Factoring Polynomials. Most students who missed it confused the setup; review the topic page and re-attempt.
Composite and Inverse Functions — Question 15 on the SAT — May 2025 (Digital, US) test draws on Composite and Inverse Functions. Most students who missed it confused the setup; review the topic page and re-attempt.
Mean, Median and Mode — Question 22 on the SAT — May 2025 (Digital, US) test draws on Mean, Median and Mode. Most students who missed it confused the setup; review the topic page and re-attempt.
Percentage Problem-Solving — Question 8 on the SAT — May 2025 (Digital, US) test draws on Percentage Problem-Solving. Most students who missed it confused the setup; review the topic page and re-attempt.
Slope and Rate of Change — Question 13 on the SAT — May 2025 (Digital, US) test draws on Slope and Rate of Change. Most students who missed it confused the setup; review the topic page and re-attempt.
Linear Equations in Two Variables — Question 8 on the SAT — May 2025 (Digital, US) test draws on Linear Equations in Two Variables. Most students who missed it confused the setup; review the topic page and re-attempt.
Rates, Ratios and Proportions — Question 31 on the SAT — May 2025 (Digital, US) test draws on Rates, Ratios and Proportions. Most students who missed it confused the setup; review the topic page and re-attempt.
Equations of Circles — Question 5 on the SAT — May 2025 (Digital, US) test draws on Equations of Circles. Most students who missed it confused the setup; review the topic page and re-attempt.
Pick your three weakest topics from the breakdown above and work through their dedicated pages. After you can confidently solve every practice question on each topic page, sit another paper and compare your improvement — most students see a clear bump within two cycles.
Browse the full past paper index for more recent sittings, or jump back to the SAT Math overview.