The test results may not be in yet, but the verdict is out.
The first attempt of the new all-digital SAT exam was held on Saturday, with many parents reporting that their students took the test.
One Brooklyn student, who has already taken two exams the old-fashioned paper-and-pencil method, called Saturday’s college entrance exam “the worst exam ever.”
Another change to the test is that it is now “adaptive.” This means that the difficulty of the questions changes depending on the student’s performance in the previous section.
“Now that it’s an adaptive test, I think it would have been more difficult for the kids who were doing well,” said Ben Morden, Manhattan representative for the Citywide High School Council. Ta.
For others, it may lead to skipping questions that are too difficult, and has been criticized as a “dysfunction” of the 98-year-old test. The College Board maintains that students who are given easier questions are not at a disadvantage.
For many people, the math section was the most difficult, even more so than the reading and writing sections.
Another student called the reading and writing part “insane.”
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“I practiced all of the Blue Book tests and SAT Suite questions, but the actual questions were much more difficult,” she wrote on the Digital Test Prep Facebook page.
“I [didn’t] Please check my answers and have enough time to read all questions. ”
The exam is run by the College Board, which says it is designed to reduce stress. Other changes include shorter exam times. University applicants are given 2 hours and 14 minutes instead of 3 hours.
Students can now expect to see results in days instead of weeks.
CCHS hopes to hold a public meeting with College Board representatives before the next exam for families to learn more about the new changes.
