An example of how you should not answer this question: My long term goal is to have your job. Actually, that's more my mid-term goal. My long term goal is to become the CEO. So I want to put myself on that path and continue to make course corrections along the way until I finally achieve that goal.
1 Self-guided test preparation programs are relatively inexpensive ways to prepare for the test. 2  Online preparation on the SAT's official website costs $69.95; the SAT's official test guide costs $21.99. 3  Other SAT guides can cost as little as $9.99. Some colleges require applicants to also take SAT subject tests in fields ranging from literature to physics to foreign language. 2  Each of these tests costs an additional $10, or $21 for language tests.
To accommodate the new writing section and essay, the total time of the SAT (including a 25-minute equating section) increases to 3 hours and 45 minutes. The test fee for the SAT increases to $41.50 (about $47 in 2012 dollars), from $29.50 just two years before.cores are reported on a scale of 1 to 36 for the test as a whole and for each sub-section. The test administration is primarily limited to the midwestern U.S at this time; the student's test fee is $3 (about $23 in 2012 dollars).