The New SAT Will Widen the Education Gap

<p>I took the SAT recently and one section (100% sure it was the experimental) seemed very strange. It was a writing section that featured one long essay and asked us to correct underlined parts. Strangely enough, punctuation rules were on it. I couldn’t help but feel like I was taking the ACT (which is bad for me, as I perform better on the SAT). The only good thing was the time (I think it was 18 questions in 25 minutes). Overall, I feel like the new SAT is basically the ACT in disguise. My friends got the reading experimental and based off of their reactions, i think the reading won’t be like the ACT… it’ll be very similar to the current format just with some questions requiring you to justify your answer for a previous one. Also, more documents and even graphs in the reading. For the math, I heard it was very similar just more in depth and overall more difficult (testing skill not reasoning). I kinda don’t know how this will work out, but I am pretty sure the results will remain the same. The SAT is based on percentile after all. </p>