First all-digital SAT exam, tough math section puts students to the test: ‘Worst one yet’
NY Post
The test results might not be in yet but the verdicts are.
The first sitting for the new all-digital SAT exam took place on Saturday and put students to the test, many parents have reported.
One Brooklyn student, who already took two tests the old-fashioned way — with pencil and paper — called Saturday’s college admissions exam “the worst one yet.”
Another change to the test is that it is “adaptive,” meaning the difficulty of questions will change depending on how students performed in prior sections.
“I suspect it was much tougher for kids who do well on it because it is now an adaptive exam,” noted Ben Morden, a Manhattan representative to the Citywide Council on High Schools.
For others, it could skip questions that are too difficult, which has been slammed as a “dumbing down” of the 98-year-old test. The College Board insists students given easier questions won’t be disadvantaged.
