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by rayiner 1 hour ago
Yeah they’re much easier now.
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When I took the digital SAT a couple years ago, we had access to the Desmos Graphing Calculator during the whole math section.

The entire point of the exam was to test whether you can read a math question, input it into the calculator and select the option that matches the result within 60 seconds. If you get a couple questions wrong, you drop hundreds of points. I don’t think it was a valuable test whatsoever (and of course, it biases to students who can afford time/money for thousands of practice questions to improve this “skill” through repetition)

The English reading/writing section was much more interesting, but again, the time limitations make it a skimming test more than anything else.

Many universities allow you to ‘superscore’ multiple attempts, to combine a math and RW score from different SATs. So again, scores bias towards students who can afford to take one test dedicated to math, and another dedicated to English.

Everything you’re saying makes me so mad