Maya Garaway Week 12: Digital SATs

    Highschool! Time for hours of standardized testing! By this time, most of us have already taken an SAT or ACT and have had to go through the tiring process of standardized testing. The tiring mornings just to arrive at a testing site and have to sit through a tedious three-hour test that leaves you feeling drained. Will this process ever be changed? 

    Collegeboard has been reviewing their SAT tests and has a few ideas on ways to improve. Their goal is to make these tests less stressful. In the future, the SATs will be digital. It will be in person at testing centers, but completely online. There will also be devices provided to those who are not capable to have. Time-wise, the test will be shortened from three hours to two. These new tests will also have some changes to content. The math section will only have the calculator allowed test and the English section will be shorter paragraphs with fewer questions. Some of the topics on the exam will also be changed. Due to the unavailability of expensive tutoring for some people, the questions on the SAT will be more relevant towards college readiness. 

    These changes may greatly affect the way the SAT is viewed. I am currently signed up for the SAT in March and I am dreading the exam. I believe that the alterations will put less stress and pressure on high school students and will make the SAT more bearable. How do you do with standardized tests and what do you think of these changes?



https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/25/us/sat-test-digital.html


Comments

  1. AnonymousJan 25, 2022, 9:44:00 PM

    The new changes to the SAT look very promising. They look like they will relieve stress for high school students who need to study and take these long standardized tests. I am not a fan of online testing, but I think that the other improvements made will be very beneficial. I am honestly very jealous that these changes will not impact us because we will already be done with our testing. I think I would benefit a lot from the changes as will many other students taking the SAT.

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  2. Atara BerkowerJan 26, 2022, 11:39:00 AM

    This new SAT format will definitely give students relief. Additionally, I think more people will take the SAT over the ACT after this change. I am signed up to take the ACT in February for the third, and hopefully final, time!

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  3. AnonymousJan 27, 2022, 2:22:00 PM

    I wouldn't want to take the SAT online, but a shorter test would definitely be very beneficial. By the end of a long test, students are tired and therefore not performing at their best, which is not a true reflection of what they know.

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  4. AnonymousJan 28, 2022, 8:13:00 PM

    I am going to be brutally honest with you. I don't like the idea of switching the test to online testing and all these changes happening because then there is no point in having the test at all, in my mind at least. I think that the SAT and ACT now have purpose and reason to be looked at because it shows how students do under the time pressure and all that, of course I don't like these tests, and personally don't do well on them, but I still think that these tests have more meaning the way they are right now. The changes make the test less valuable and important for colleges to look at because they make it easier. I think that they shouldn't change it, but I can see the bright side to the changes as well.

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  5. AnonymousJan 28, 2022, 8:17:00 PM

    I think the changes to the SAT will make it substantially easier for future test-takers. However, I think that these changes might make the test lest reliable or credible to colleges. I think this change may accelerate the trend of colleges going test-optional or eliminating standardized tests completely.

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