After your little skull-full-of-mush graduates from your local public high school, you'd like them to get into a good college, right?
And that requires a good score on the SAT, right?
Well!! Regardless of their horrific record in "education," your public school delivers!
...SAT reading section is "less demanding" than in past decades, study finds
Changes could be attempts to increase equity, education expert says...
Huh?
...Through a comparative analysis of SAT forms from 1980, 1987, and a 2026 College Board practice test, researchers discovered substantial adjustments to the tests' reading section that transitioned away from longer, more traditional readings.
The changes include significantly shorter passages, an 83 percent drop in vocabulary questions that require independent word knowledge, the near-total replacement of argumentative and persuasive texts with expository ones, and readings whose meaning can be grasped through context rather than assumed prior knowledge.
David Steiner, executive director of Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy, told The College Fix that the test has indeed changed, but that the "report does not say that the test got easier." ...--quoted at AOSHQ
Of course not. Don't let your eyes fool you, rube. It's not "easier." It's Less Complicated and it Demands More Intellectual Firepower. But that doesn't make it "easier," dude.
Jill Underly will be proud.
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