DS (2017) has focused his preparation on and taken the current (old) SAT. He is one of a few juniors at his BS that has employed this strategy. Part of his motivation was that some of the schools (service academies) he will apply to prefer/encourage applicants to take these tests in their junior year. He didn’t want to take the new SAT (for reasons indicated) in the spring of 2016. He concluded that since there were many more practice tests (Blue Book) available for the old SAT, he could better prepare. He has one more crack at the old SAT (January 2016) and then will take the ACT in the spring (if needed). The goal is to be done with these exams by the end of his junior year.
His school did not encourage juniors to sit for the old SAT, but rather counseled them to take the new SAT and ACT in spring 2016.