<p>This is very frustrating and I'm completely ****ed off at this. whenever i try college board's question of the day, whether its math or cr, i can't seem to answer them and i always get them wrong.</p>
<p>but then when i look at old practice test (before 2005 sat update), i can answer almost every single math questions, even the ones at the end which are the most difficult! cr in my opinion has also gotten harder. why is there so much vocabulary? i think the old SAT was less heavy in vocab then the modern SAT. </p>
<p>any thoughts?</p>
<p>I feel that way too… but I get the college board’s question of the day right. Well. It’s going to get harder and harder i guess 
so competitive…</p>
<p>Actually, the SAT has become much easier than it was thirty years ago, in part owing to changing content, but also due to score recentering.</p>
<p>Well, the old sat is easier. If u hate vocab, try the ACT.</p>
<p>really? wow can’t believe people agree with me. the old sat is easier? hmm.</p>
<p>The only way the old SAT was easier was because it was shorter. The questions, though, were actually harder, especially on the really old SATs (1980s). A 740ish on a really old math section is equal to an 800 now.</p>
<p>The SAT is a statistical test. It’s designed to yield predictable results along a range of scores. The more kids that get better at taking the SAT, the harder it has to become to remain statistically valid. (In whatsoever it is that it actually tests)</p>
<p>@satman1111. i score 780s and 800s on the old sat math practice test. i took about 4 of them. cosistently scoring 780+. well. i find the math to be easier because there aren’t that many combinations or any graph qusetions as compared to our modern sat which has graphs functions and other annoying stuff! it also test a bit of geometry. old sat math only tested cave man algebra.</p>
<p>I mean old as in pre-1990s. The ones from 2005 are the same as now.</p>
<p><a href=“SAT Practice and Preparation – SAT Suite | College Board”>SAT Practice and Preparation – SAT Suite | College Board; take a look at section 2 question 8. </p>
<p>this math qusetion tests knowledge of geometry (arc degrees, inscribed angles). </p>
<p>other questions also have geometry mixed in with it. clearly, the modern sat tests some extent of geometry, while the old sat math (2005 or before) only tested algebra.</p>
<p>uhh… i think the sat before 2005 isn’t the same as today’s. do you have links to the sats in the pre-1990s? i wanna check them out, how did you see them?</p>
<p>Here is a College Board link to the [May</a> 2002 SAT](<a href=“College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools”>College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools). (I don’t know of any legitimate links to the 80s era SATs.)</p>
<p>Geometry has long been a major part of the SAT. Just briefly glancing at a test from 1982, and I count about 20% geometry questions, very similiar to today’s test.</p>
<p>@fignewton. what i mean by geometry isn’t just shapes & figures. on the old sat, the test never asked anyone to know “arc degrees”. <a href=“SAT Practice and Preparation – SAT Suite | College Board”>SAT Practice and Preparation – SAT Suite | College Board; take a look at section 2 question 8.</p>
<p>^ you see? that’ basically geometry. you need to know what an inscribed angle is or some other sort of geometry knowledge. I can say this is bull***** because the college board, i can recall, claimed that the SAT only requires basic algebra knowledge. CLEARLY, arc degrees isn’t taught in a typical algebra course…</p>
<p>@MathTeamExtraPro: I don’t really see the big difference between the geometry then and now. For the question you posted, you don’t actually need to know what “inscribed” means, since it just describes the way the square is in the circle…which is made perfectly obvious by the diagram. All the question really tests is if you know that a circle is 360 degrees, and that 360/4=90.</p>
<p>well. even though i knew that, that question was still a good example of my point…</p>
<p>Is the bell curve getting curvier? The SAT is harder but it is still normed according to other students, who are more intelligent each second on average.</p>
<p>@MathTeamExtraPro: since the 1980s, the SAT has made two major moves away from a true reasoning test requiring little basic knowledge to a more achievement-like test.</p>
<p>In 1994, calculators were allowed, and tested content expanded to include topics such as slopes of lines and pie charts, for example.</p>
<p>In 2005, content expanded again to include absolute value and equations of lines among other things.</p>
<p>In 2015, the SAT will change again, and it is safe to say this trend will continue.</p>
<p>i will hate the new 2015 sat. they will probably add in some ***** like sin & cos. -.-</p>
<p>Hence why I’m taking the SATs late this year/early next year (Jan~Mar) - as a soph. That, and I want to get the SATs over with.</p>
<p>@fignewton: I actually observed that as well. Not that I want to harshly criticize the SAT or anything, but according to the recent changes made on it, I have a bad feeling more unnecessary material will be added. I just hope they keep the scoring as is. I’m still wondering whether the decision to change the scoring on it in the past was a good idea.</p>