<p>Can someone please tell me approximately how different the new SAT will be compared to the old? I have already given the SAT, but am still curious to know as some of my young relatives will be affected by the change.</p>
<p>I think they want to focus less on vocabulary and the essay will be changed. Instead of trying to make a essay on the spot and trying to persuade your readers, they will give a passage or something and ask you to respond to it (heard that somwhere idk where)</p>
<p>It hasn’t been announced yet. There are some vague interviews (the essay will change, there’s been talk of dumbing down the vocab), but anything in this thread will be speculation.</p>
<p>Does anyone know which class will be the first to take it? My husband and I are helping with SAT prep and have a group of kids who are currently high school sophomores and juniors.</p>
<p>Originally announced to debut in 2015, but since delayed until 2016.</p>
<p>Removing MORE vocab? So they’re going to turn the SAT CR into the ACT Reading test? Ah, for the good ole days of 1994 when I was a 7th grader and the SAT Verbal was 70% vocab (antonyms, analogies, sentence completions)…</p>
<p>@cloudeleven I still maintain that the vocab should be as tough as ever. By making it easier, the collegeboard is essentially lessening the time that people devote to vocab and this, in my opinion, will lessen the gap between the scores of the hard workers and the not-so-hard workers.</p>
<p>Isn’t SAT supposed to be an aptitude test as its name implied?<br>
Will this new change move the test more towards a measure of “achievement”.</p>
<p>“The test is intended to assess a student’s readiness for college. It was first introduced in 1926, and its name and scoring have changed several times. It was first called the Scholastic Aptitude Test, then the Scholastic Assessment Test.”</p>
<p>[SAT</a> Reasoning Test - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAT_Reasoning_Test]SAT”>SAT - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>(Now “SAT” stands for nothing)</p>
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<p>Funny, but the conventional wisdom around here - not here CC but here in my offline circle - the SAT measures aptitude, natural smarts…aptitude for further learning. Grades were how hard working kids distinguished themselves.</p>
<p>Thus a kid with high SAT and low grades might be seen as lazy but smart, and a kid with the reverse a hard working kid with fewer natural test-taking gifts.</p>
<p>OHMomof2:
You might want to read “What Stanley H. Kaplan Taught Us”–the SAT hasn’t been considered an “aptitude” test for a long time, and even then, that belief was demonstrably wrong.</p>
<p>Link:
[Examined</a> Life : The New Yorker](<a href=“http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2001/12/17/011217crat_atlarge]Examined”>Examined Life | The New Yorker)</p>
<p>Interesting story, thanks for sharing.</p>
<p>I don’t think the conventional wisdom will end with it, though, not when some kids score high but have low grades, mainly due to effort not put in.</p>
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<p>Or,as we might say today, had s/he put in more effort.</p>
<p>Sure, but in many, many cases only half of the phrase “conventional wisdom” is accurate.</p>
<p>Indeed. I’d be interested to see how the SAT changes - and to the OP I think the new **PSAT **will be in 2015, still - but my kids will be done by then.</p>
<p>Are they planning any changes in math? Adding trig, for example?</p>
<p>I don’t think so. There’s trig on the ACT math, though.</p>
<p>[College</a> Board president gives some hints about changes in the SAT | Inside Higher Ed](<a href=“http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/09/20/college-board-president-gives-some-hints-about-changes-sat]College”>http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/09/20/college-board-president-gives-some-hints-about-changes-sat)</p>
<p>[New</a> SAT delayed to 2016](<a href=“http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/12/04/new-sat-delayed-to-2016/]New”>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/12/04/new-sat-delayed-to-2016/)</p>