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<p>I wouldn’t write the epitaph for the SAT quite so fast. To begin with, the College Board will do whatever it takes to defend the central position of its SAT franchise. When the Univ. of California under Atkinson wrote similar reports and recommndations about 10 years ago, the CB promptly revamped the test in reponse (which is why the SAT now has a Writing section).</p>
<p>Ironically, the UC, which, for many of the reasons that this Fitzsimmon commission has cited, led the previous reform and de-emphasized the SAT in favor of the SAT Subject tests in its own admissions criteria, has now said that this reform was a mistake and is moving back in the opposite direction - re-emphasizing the SAT and de-emphasing the SAT Subject tests.</p>
<p>The more things change, the more they stay the same.</p>