The decision to postpone the release of the solutions was made in order to prevent strategic cheating that had been noticed during previous tests.
In this way they can compare their answers to the test key which is later published on the internet, teletext and newspapers.
This part consists of data from the aforementioned sections, but the result from this subtest is not counted.
While the test was open for anyone to take, and free of charge, only the 25/4:s could use their scores for selection to higher education.
The latter was a verbal test in which the items asked for one or several pieces of information that could be found in an accompanying pamphlet complete with a table of contents and registers.
The pamphlet was around 80 pages, and too time-consuming to read in its entirety, so test-takers had to use registers to find the requested information.
[3] After the trial period ended in 1991, the SweSAT could be used for selection purposes by all candidates to higher education – now even more than before acting as a "second chance" for students with uncompetitive grade point average.
[3] Now the STECH subtest was replaced by English reading comprehension (ERC) with 24 questions.
So far, items had been tried out on separate occasions, using students from upper-secondary school (who might be more, but probably less motivated than regular test-takers).