<p>My reaction is looks the same in general, but is a deeper test of logical and critical thinking skills. Easier vocab is not going to change things much because students still have to know vocal. The issue will be the same though, do they know the vocab on the test they take. </p>
<p>Before the release of the specific question examples, my concern was the talk it would be more like the ACT would result in average higher scores, which really would not do much to help colleges discern students. This new test though, as been pointed out, is not like the ACT - so much for the rumor mill.</p>
<p>In my undergrad, where grade deflation was in place 30 years ago, the professors would announce the first days of class how many As, Bs, etc. they were giving out. And they never failed to have tests that did just as they predicted, and these profs did not have the same granular answer range data per question as The College Board.</p>
<p>Therefore, I do think the testing companies have more than enough tools to recenter the test to whatever they want. And given their wealth of history of how different student cohorts answer questions of particular phrasing and complexity, they can probably get pretty close on the first one or two tests administrations. That’s my 2 cents worth; worth about 1/2 a cent.</p>