SAT Harder or Easier Today Than In Your Day?

ucbalumnus
Thu, 20 Dec 2012 12:09:52 +0000

MiamiDAP:

It explains why kids (especially advanced kids) absolutely have to study for it. They have to re-fresh middle school material.



SAT math topics come from early high school material as it is taught in the US, although it may be normally middle school material in some other countries. Advanced students who are good in math should have no problem with the actual subject matter, but some may need practice on SAT-specific test-taking techniques.



MizzBee:

I also seem to recall questions about yachts and sailing, one test. Not something a kids from a farm town of 800 people would recognize.



Back then, there were organizations saying that the SAT was biased in favor of wealthy people in suburban areas, due to the choice of vocabulary words that wealthy people were more likely to encounter in daily life contexts than poor people or those from rural areas.