I work with seniors in high school, specifically helping them with college essays. I had occasion to see a number of SAT scores being posted to our school’s Naviance system. I always thought that the Writing section of the SAT was the least difficult. However, I saw many horrendous Writing scores posted. Many in the 300’s. (This is a fairly low-achieving school, but still) When I mentioned this to the lead counselor, he told me that they no longer taught grammar in the school…too much time taken up with prepping for all the other testing. No wonder I see so many semi-literate first drafts.