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Many believe that lowering the standards and changing the SAT will not make a difference because it will never be considered as a test that measures a student’s success. College Board has tried to make some new adjustments but the revision they made is not good enough and should just stick with the old SAT. The revision of the SAT will cause students to think less and will not show the student’s natural ability in aptitude.
Many oppose the newly revised SAT that will be published in 2016, and proclaim that there will be many benefits for a large amount of students because it won’t be as stressful or time consuming as the old SAT. They strongly stand firm in their beliefs that lowering the standards will prevent high school students from achieving a greater score on the SAT. Some say that the revision of the SAT will be beneficial towards the students because it can “now write about their experiences and opinions, with no penalty for incorrect insertions”, on their essays (David Coleman). Many are happy that the revised SAT is moving towards the direction of achievement, rather than aptitude because it was made “to make the test to reflect more closely what high school students did in high school” (Tamar Lewin). Many people are being misled because they don’t know enough information to know that there are many consequences when it comes to the SAT being redesigned.
However, the newly revised SAT will not encourage students to improve their reasoning abilities and aptitude for their college level of works. This is because the test is moving towards achieving, the results will only be showing what they learned throughout high school, and will not be proving their capabilities in handling college work in their first two years. The re...

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...oo narrow of a scope” (Williamson).
Many of the changes that will be implemented into the SAT contain faults and could cause in a negative impact towards the academic career of students across the nation. Even though College Board tried to make the SAT funds a lot cheaper, they will always be considered a wealth test because students who have money tend to get better scores. Overall, student’s ability of aptitude in reasoning skills will decline because of the revision of the SAT.

Works Cited

http://chronicle.com/article/Most-Students-Are-Unprepared/141919/ (percentages) Y

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/06/education/major-changes-in-sat-announced-by-college-board.html?_r=0 Y

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/03/10/behind-the-sat-the-good-and-bad-of-the-2016-redesign Y

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/19/opinion/the-trouble-with-online-college.html?_r=0
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