How the SAT Lowered Expectations

A new study makes clear how the reading portion has changed over time, leaving many freshmen ill-prepared to engage with demanding books.

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Does the still measure college readiness?

Over the past four decades, the has made incremental changes to the SAT reading section: It has eliminated antonyms and verbal analogies, quartered the number of vocabulary questions, and replaced longer reading passages with shorter ones. Few have researched the cumulative effect of these changes.

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John J. Goyette

John J. Goyette is vice president and dean emeritus of Thomas Aquinas College.

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