In response to the SAT overhaul
There are many, many things I could say about the overhaul of the SAT (coming to a testing center near you in 2016!), but I don’t want this to turn into an endless rant, and so I’ll do my best not to ramble on too long.
The elimination of the sentence completions and the 1/4 point penalty, as well the changes to the essay didn’t surprise me in the least; the combination of Reading and Writing into one section caught me a bit off guard, however. In retrospect, I should have seen it coming. If more time is going to be allotted to the essay — the only possibility if you’re giving a more in-depth assignment — it’s going to get cut somewhere else. (more…)