<p>During the critical reading and writing sections of today's SAT, I felt an effort by the collegeboard to introduce questions related to African Americans and Black culture. A lengthy article about the culture of Trinidad and references to Sojourner Truth, Langston Hughes, and some type of Afrobeat music. These questions weren't offensive or anything, I just noticed a recurring theme.</p>
<p>Do you think this is in response to the negative criticism ETS has been receiving lately for allegedly being a biased test? Anyones thoughts?</p>
<p>theyve been doing this for years.
4 questions on the us sat ii were related to knowing the names of black leaders</p>
<p>lol no doubt about it. but I mean come on...why can't they write about britney spears or something....its because she is white and well if they had to choose they would choose oprah</p>
<p>Yea I guess I've never noticed it before.</p>
<p>I believe this was a response to many saying it was a biased test and that the minority passage make it somehow less biased. I have no idea how that would happen. I guess it's because minorities would have more background information? For example, I had a friend who took AP Physics that aced the passage on quantum physics and I struggled with it because I didn't take it.</p>
<p>Yea i figured that was the cause. It seems that background information pertaining to a topic would make the question more biased though.</p>
<p>Sidenote: I'm in AP physics, have read books by Richard Feynman, and still had trouble with that passage, so your definately not alone.</p>