<p>Welp… Could’ve added a lab portion, which to me, tests rather important skills… Then the English majors might complain or so.
As well, colleges can’t use just the math section thanks to major changers, thanks a lot.</p>
<p>Either way, it’s just a sad number / reason I got rejected from my “test to see if I get in reach school” that I have to recite when high school students still ask for it.</p>
<p>Sorry I don’t mean to start an argument at all. It’s just you aren’t the average HS student. Your a “CCer” and some students are happy with poor scores as long as they are good enough to get into a local cc. Not everyone is so determined to succeed or have the same career as you. So testing has to be versatile. Not everyone has an inner desire to do the best they possibly can, unfortunately.</p>
<p>I do have the same strength and weaknesses as you. I’m just not good at English. Punctuation and stuff I can never tell when and where I need it. I can do spelling, vocab, math and science, but I can’t write or use correct punctuation/grammar all the time because it just doesn’t sound wrong to me.</p>
<p>So wait…what’s the logic here? That the SAT shouldn’t have an English-related section because some people don’t do well on it?
The College Board doesn’t seem to have the time nor resources to grade the timed essays well (bad essays can get good scores), so I think they should probably eliminate that. But I think they should continue testing people’s knowledge of the basic conventions of English writing. Writing clearly is important to most career fields. People shouldn’t be expected to write poetically or anything, but ungrammatical writing is harder to read and (for better or worse) people will make judgments about your intelligence and competence based on how you write.</p>
<p>I know. It’s extremely important. No matter what you do and where you go you’ll have to read or write. You’ll have to write your resume and business letter to get your job in the first place. I definitely don’t think they should get rid of it because some people aren’t good at it because at the same time it’s the strong point of others. It definitely does need revision though.
My current school is really dumb. Instead of English we have communication and literature for all 4 years and half the people in that place cant talk or write correctly. We used to have English at the private school I went to. We had English, vocab, spelling, and lit. They were paired two to a class. Seriously idk what comm lit is. Last year we read short text book stories and wrote a total of 3 or 4 essays and that was it. Of course our teacher used to be the German teacher and was taking classes herself as she was teaching us. Is that normal? Ugh rural Pennsylvania…</p>
<p>I am soooo thankful I won’t be around for the new SAT. The CR and W sections are my strength and I basically just suck at math. The only part of writing I hate is the correcting the essay section. Those suck so much that even hardcore workshopping couldn’t save them.
Hm… this essay [College</a> Board announces plans to redesign the SAT | Inside Higher Ed](<a href=“http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/02/27/college-board-announces-plans-redesign-sat]College”>College Board announces plans to redesign the SAT) gives me the feeling that the essay will be more DBQ style… But then again, that would be more complicated to score, so maybe not.</p>
<p>I read that they weren’t getting rid of the vocab, that they were going to use words people actually use in college and in real life rather than “SAT words” I personally liked that part and did well, I like vocab. I’m done with the SAT though so yay</p>
<p>Lucky you. That is what it said though.</p>
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<p>ACT is better.</p>
<p>Isn’t it becoming more like state tests that already test basic classroom-taught knowledge?</p>
<p>Yeah it does test more classroom taught-knowledge, while the SAT focuses more on critical thinking and tries to trick you. </p>
<p>The SAT has always been more used compared to the ACT, but now the ACT is gaining popularity and that is the reason why CollegeBoard wants to revamp the SAT.</p>
<p>Yeah I think more people took the ACT last year and the SAT makers want to get back in the game.</p>
<p>Yo, I’m a rising freshman (class of 2017), and I found out that the new SAT seems to be a computer-based test. Furthermore, it has a question system that gives you a harder question if you get the previous one right, and an easier question if you get it wrong. I really can’t deal with this type of test. The new SAT will be implemented in 2015-2016, which is during my junior year. ****. Should I just take the old SAT at the end of sophomore year, or what? ACT, perhaps?</p>
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<p>The digital thing is the ACT. read this article.
You won’t be able to do that. The class that is a junior when the test comes out and the following classes will have to apply with the new SAT. At least I think so</p>
<p>Achilles I was referring to the SAT. These standardized tests are suppose to test critical thinking rather than answers that would be learned in a classroom.</p>
<p>@55al00m Great, thanks! I feel so much more relieved now. No more intense vocab, HOORAY! (Even though I did pretty well on vocab)</p>