The SAT was revamped because it was a crappy test and has been for many decades. It does a very poor job of determining who will do well in college. More kids take the ACT and it has been that way for years due to the fact that it does a better job of gauging critical thinking skills.
“The SAT was revamped because it was a crappy test and has been for many decades. It does a very poor job of determining who will do well in college. More kids take the ACT and it has been that way for years due to the fact that it does a better job of gauging critical thinking skills.”
When I saw the essay had become optional, it became very obvious to me that it was revamped so academia could pretend that many students who couldn’t read or write English (including many blacks and Hispanics) were “educated”. The left may well believe that racial preferences will fall in the Supreme Court (as the last Americans that lived during Jim Crow pass on, and the preferences become impossible to defend); as it stands now many blacks feel white women should be excluded from affirmative action, and they also know they’ve taken a back seat to Hispanics demographically.