You’ve heard all about the new SAT coming in 2016, right? If not, you probably don’t have a college-bound teenager scurrying around your kitchen like I do.
In a nutshell, the czars of the SAT (the members of the College Board) have decided to make some drastic changes to the next version of the SAT. First, they’ve decided to remove the ridiculous essay. Or at least, they are making the ridiculous essay optional. Ridiculous? Yes, I think it is ridiculous. Grading an essay is subjective, not objective. And I don’t want my kid denied entry into Stanford because the College Board grader didn’t have his cappuccino yet. So, that’s a good start.
They have also decided to change the vocabulary words. Instead of obscure confusing words and associations those comparison things, the test will now have words that are relevant simple. The College Board calls the new words “high utility” words. We no longer need to know what surfeit, torpid, and malediction mean. Hurrah. .
Details of the new test are supposed to be released today. In advance of this ground-breaking, new and improved version, today’s New Yorker contains a few of the vocabulary words that we should be expecting. Take a look. I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised made happy.
Click here to read the New Yorker article.
Val is on the Advisory Board for the Technical Communications Program at the University of North Texas. When not working with customers or students, Val can be found sitting behind her sewing machine working on her latest quilt. She also makes a mean hummus.
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