<p>"Every 12 years, the president of the College Board announces important new changes that will better align the SAT to high school curricula and promote reading and writing. Yet the test still fails, and these changes are unlikely to help it pass. Like Phil Connors in Groundhog Day, The College Board is stuck in one place and every day is exactly the same, and nothing that it does matters." …</p>
<p>Op-Ed. Katzman founded the Princeton Review.</p>
<p>| emphasize science</p>
<p>Where has it been said that the new SAT will do this? And where does the ACT do this already? Last time I checked, the ACT features a critical reading section dubbed a science section.</p>
<p>And the SAT and ACT don’t test arbitrary things. Let’s check the dictionary, shall we: “Arbitrary adjective. based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system” The subjects they test are core subjects and are designed to compare everyone on the same things.</p>
<p>And the idea of letting kids decide what to take will not help colleges get any better grasp of their true abilities. And the final idea, publishing the question banks, is the most ridiculous thing that I have ever heard. That would push memorizing, not critical thinking. </p>
<p>This article is pandering to the anti-test crowd, and is fundamentally flawed.</p>
<p>|Starting with a clean sheet of paper and some common-sense principles, any number of us could design a college admissions test that rewards true academic rigor and encourages learning as part of the test prep process.</p>
<p>I have a feeling that they will design a test that will get the same result for everybody, with no meaningful insight gleamed. </p>