How Different is the New SAT?

 For many students taking exams, in general, may be anxiety producing and that fear grows when we are talking about the SAT or ACT.  Up until this month, March of 2016, there were distinct differences between the SAT and ACT, and we were able to use those differences, in part, as a way of determining which test might work best for each student.  The gap is being closed because the newly designed SAT Test will launch. Here is a quick list of some of the changes in the new SAT test.
• There will be no penalty for wrong answers.
• There will only be four answer choices for each question rather than five.
• Instead of a personal essay, students will be given a passage and then asked to describe how the author is persuading the audience.
• In the reading section, students will be asked to supply evidence to back up their claims. A question about the text will require students to support their answers with evidence from the text. If you get the first question wrong, your evidence is unlikely to be right. You must get the first question right in order to find the correct evidence to back it up.
• Instead of very difficult vocabulary to define, students will have to define words according to the context in which they are used in a passage. This means that the words are easier, but students will need to know several definitions for each word.
• Graphics and charts will play a bigger role and students will have to extrapolate information from these graphics, especially when in the reading section. Students will also have to change sentences so that they are more closely aligned with information from the graphics.
• Reading questions will now include some historical United States documents like the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence and writings by historical figures like Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. Students are not expected to know the texts, but it will mean that they will be familiar with the authors and context as it is more in keeping with what they are learning in school.
• Total score (400 to 1600) which means that the average score will be around 1,000 (as opposed to the 1,500 of the old score).
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