SATs: The Day After

The SATs have been on this planet for 67 years and it is still a headache to students. This year, however, a new SAT has been created and about 330,000 students across the nation have taken the new SAT yesterday (March 12).

Several colleges believed that the original format of the test was "not rigorous enough and a poor indicator of student achievement and is seriously considering dumping it from their admissions requirement, says a washington post article.

What's different about the new test? Well, the new test includes a critical reading section with short and long passages, a writing section with 35 minutes allotted for multiple-choice questions and 25 minutes for the essay, a more advanced math section with third-year college-preparatory math problems, and a new scoring scale (The perfect SAT score has leaped from 1600 to 2400) .

Here are the SAT testing calendar and fees (from the College Board's website) for those who weren't able to be a part of the March 12 event.

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Check out how Jordan Rosenfeld, a junior at Seneca Valley High School in Germantown, Maryland (Shown in the picture below), prepared for the brand new SATs.



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