The College Board will make the essay portion of its SAT admissions test optional starting in 2016 and eliminate esoteric vocabulary words, a move likely to be embraced by high school students and their parents.
- The exam will return to the 1600 scale. The exam has been scored on a 2400 scale since the last overhaul in 2005.
- The essay section — added to the test in the 2005 upgrade — will now be optional and graded separately from the rest of the exam.
- Administrators will make the test available in both print and digital forms.
- The College Board won't deduct points for incorrect answers, a penalty that some critics have said discourages guessing. Students will now simply earn points for the answers they answer correctly.
- Words used in the reading and writing sections "will no longer be vocabulary students may not have heard before and are likely not to hear again," according to a news release. Instead, the exam will "focus on words that students will use consistently in college and beyond."
The College Board is also offering free test preparation through The College Board and Khan Academy, putting an end to scam SAT prep courses.
This test is so damn stupid. College is nothing like that. Seriously you can't do bad on this test. It's full of crap
And the essay is so easy to ********. I got a 12/12 by just writing the full two pages. In fact I made huge guesses and most of it was made up. Maybe that's why they removed it now.
What the literal ****? This **** had to ****ing happen right after I already took it and applied and got accepted to universities. **** **** just my god damn luck. I would've done so much ****ing better on it.
