College Board, the nonprofit organization that owns the SAT, late last year appointed a new president, David Coleman, who was a co-writer of the Common Core State Standards
The new exam will be available on paper and computer,
scoring will revert to the old 1600 scale, with a top score of 800 on math and what will now be called “Evidence-Based Reading and Writing.” The optional essay will have a separate score.
revamped less than a decade ago when a written essay was added
Last year, for the first time, it lost its designation as the most popular college admissions exam to the ACT, by a margin of a few thousand students.
Common Core Alignment?
High school students will take a very different college entrance examin two years when the company that administers the SAT rolls out a new ...
The changes coming to the exam are extensive: The SAT’s rarefied vocabulary words will be replaced by words that are common in college courses, such as “empirical” and “synthesis.” The math questions, now scattered widely across many topics, will focus more narrowly on linear equations, functions and proportional thinking. The use of a calculator will no longer be allowed on some of the math sections. The new exam will be available on paper and computer, and the scoring will revert to the old 1600 scale, with a top score of 800 on math and what will now be called “Evidence-Based Reading and Writing.” The optional essay will have a separate score.
Once the pre-eminent college admissions exam, the SAT has recently lost ground to the ACT, which is based more directly on high school curriculums and is now taken by a slightly higher number of students.
The new SAT, to be introduced in the spring of 2016, will not quell all criticism of the standardized-test juggernaut. Critics have long pointed out — and [College Board President David] Coleman admits — that high school grades are a better predictor of college success than standardized test scores. A growing number of colleges have in recent years gone “test optional,” allowing students to forgo the tests and submit their grades, transcripts and perhaps a graded paper.
Both the SAT and the ACT are being retooled to align with the nationally-crafted
Common Core expectations...
Representatives from both companies, however, have reassured Indiana lawmakers
who want to leave the Common Core that the tests will remain relevant to Hoosier students.
New York Times - 7 hours ago
David Coleman, president of the College Board, has used his position to overhaul the SAT and have it better reflect what students should be ...
But “when is there a situation in either college or life when you’re asked to write on demand about something you’ve never once thought about?” he asked. “I’ve never gotten an email from a boss saying: ‘Is failure necessary for success? Get back to me in 25 minutes?’ But that’s what the SAT does.” Perelman said that tutors commonly taught their students to create and memorize an all-purpose essay that contained the necessary elements for a top score — “a personal anecdote, a few historical references; Florence Nightingale seems a strangely popular reference.” When test day comes, they regurgitate what they’ve committed to memory, slightly reshaping depending on the question asked. But no one is actually learning anything about writing.
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Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog) - 9 hours ago
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Free test prep from Khan Academy
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The Khan Academy will offer SAT test prep materials for free, the online learning platform said Wednesday, through a partnership with the .
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Fox News - 2 hours ago
The SAT college entrance exam is undergoing sweeping revisions.Changes in the annual test that millions of students take will also do away ...
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2 hours ago - Changes in the annual test that millions of students take will also do away with some vocabulary words such as "prevaricator" and "sagacious" ...
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