Good News？！Sat考试新变化哦！

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转自：http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/sat-to-drop-essay-requirement-and-return-to-top-score-of-1600-in-redesign-of-admission-test/2014/03/05/2aa9eee4-a46a-11e3-8466-d34c451760b9_story.html
在中国论坛要发中文帖！
不想翻译，只想转帖一下，也不行吗？
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SAT to drop essay requirement and return to top score of 1600 in redesign of admission test

Video: The College Board is changing the SAT again. The Post's Nick Anderson explains some things you might not know about the college admissions test and how it has evolved—starting with the meaning behind the letters "SAT."
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By Nick Anderson, Updated: Thursday, March 6, 3:15 AM E-mail the writer
The SAT college admission test will no longer require a timed essay, will dwell less on fancy vocabulary and will return to the familiar 1600-point scoring scale in a major overhaul intended to open doors to higher education for students who are now shut out.

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还没贴完，可以继续贴吗？

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翻译好难，我只会写中文，不会翻译英文啊啊啊啊啊 啊啊啊啊啊啊啊！

再试试：

The second redesign of the SAT in this century — announced Wednesday and scheduled to go into effect when today’s high school freshmen take it in 2016 — aims to strip many of the tricks out of a test currently administered to more than 1.5 million students in every high school graduating class. It also comes with a College Board pledge to offer new test-preparation tutorials for free online, enabling students to bypass pricey SAT-prep classes that previously were available mostly to affluent families looking to give their children an edge.

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View a comparison of the current SAT with the redesigned SAT.
Test yourself: Sample questions from the current SAT
Nick Anderson 3:18 AM ET
Nine questions from the SAT college admission test, which is poised to undergo some major changes.

Out in the redesign will be “SAT words” that have long prompted anxious students to cram with flashcards, as the test will now focus on vocabulary words that are widely used in college and career. The College Board hasn’t yet cited examples of words deemed too obscure, but “punctilious,” “phlegmatic” and “occlusion” are three tough ones in a College Board study guide.

Out, too, will be a much-reviled rule that deducts a quarter point for each wrong answer to multiple-choice questions, deterring random guesses. Also gone: The 2400-point scale begun nine years ago with the debut of the required essay. The essay will become optional.

Back will be one of the iconic numbers of 20th-century America: The perfect SAT score, crystalline without a comma, returns to 1600.

With these and other changes — such as asking students to analyze documents key to the nation’s founding — College Board officials said they want to make the SAT more accessible, straightforward and grounded in what is taught in high school. Experts say SAT scores have long been strongly correlated to family income, a dynamic the College Board hopes to shake up. Its initiative comes as the 88-year-old test in recent years has slipped behind the rival ACT — a shorter exam with an optional essay — in total student customers.

“The road to college success has always been the practice of excellent work in our classrooms,” David Coleman, the College Board’s president, said in an advance copy of a speech planned for Wednesday afternoon in Austin. “It is time for an admissions assessment that makes it clear that the road to success is not last-minute tricks or cramming, but the challenging learning students do each day.”

At the same time, Coleman fired a broadside at a test-prep industry that sells books, flashcards and courses to help students raise their scores in the hopes of gaining an edge in competitive college admissions and scholarships.

Coleman said the New York-based organization will team with the nonprofit Khan Academy, which delivers free tutorials in math and other subjects via a popular Web site of the same name, to provide free SAT prep for the world.

“The College Board cannot stand by while some test-prep providers intimidate parents at all levels of income into the belief that the only way they can secure their child’s success is to pay for costly test preparation and coaching,” Coleman said. “If we believe that assessment must be a force for equity and excellence, it’s time to shake things up.”

Coleman also repeated a pledge he made at the White House in January: The College Board will deliver four college application fee waivers to each test-taker meeting income eligibility requirements, allowing students to apply to four schools for free.

Coleman, head of the College Board since fall 2012, previously was a key figure in the development of the new Common Core State Standards. Those standards, which set national expectations for what students should learn in math and English from kindergarten through 12th grade, have been fully adopted in 45 states and the District. Coleman’s vision for the new SAT, with emphasis on analysis of texts from a range of disciplines as well as key math and language concepts, appears to echo the philosophy underlying the Common Core and could match the test more closely to what students are learning in the classroom.

The redesign follows a challenging decade for a standardized test launched in 1926 that has wielded enormous influence in American education from the Great Depression through the era of No Child Left Behind. Advocates say the SAT provides a common yardstick for academic merit; critics call it a tool to protect the interests of the elite.

Originally the Scholastic Aptitude Test, the SAT shed that name years ago along with the devilish antonym and analogy questions that were a staple of what was once called the “verbal” section. It underwent a major change in 2005 that drew mixed reviews.

That year, a writing section, worth a maximum 800 points, was added with multiple-choice questions and a 25-minute essay. Critics complained that too little time was given for essay revisions and that writing assignments did not reflect the level of analysis expected in college. Some college admissions officers also were lukewarm.

“As a predictor of student success, a 25-minute essay isn’t going to tell us a great deal,” said Stephen J. Handel, associate vice president of undergraduate admissions for the University of California.

And in recent years, more and more students were gravitating toward the rival ACT exam. The SAT has long been dominant on the West coast, in the Northeast and in the Washington region. The ACT, launched in 1959 and overseen by an organization based in Iowa, attracts more students in the middle of the country and the South.

The two tests overlap in mission but diverge in style and content, with the ACT traditionally measuring achievement (including a science section) and the SAT measuring thinking skills. But the ACT has made inroads on the SAT’s turf, and many students now take both. In 2012, the ACT surpassed the SAT in the number of reported test-takers.

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惨了，多贴了几个英文字，被黑了！:dizzy::dizzy::dizzy:

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不贴了，大家自己去一楼的链接看吧。

Both exams also are facing challenges from the growing test-optional movement. The National Center for Fair and Open Testing lists about 800 colleges and universities that admit a substantial number of undergraduates without requiring them to submit SAT or ACT scores.

Among them is American University, which started the experiment in 2010. Now 18 percent of its applicants do not submit SAT or ACT scores.

“It’s rising, and it’s gone up every year,” said Sharon Alston, AU’s vice provost for undergraduate enrollment. She said the university has not detected “any significant difference” in the performance of students who don’t submit test scores compared with those who do.

College Board officials, mindful of these developments, say the redesign has a larger purpose.

“We’re not just chasing market share here, I can assure you that,” said Shirley Ort, a top financial aid official at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, who is vice chair of the College Board’s governing board. “We want the SAT to be more than just an event that takes place in a test center. We think it can serve as a catalyst for student engagement.”

The redesign will beef up the essay, giving students who choose to take it 50 minutes to analyze evidence and explain how an author builds an argument. The rest of the test will be three hours. Currently the SAT takes three hours and 45 minutes.

The math section will tighten its focus on data analysis, problem solving, algebra and topics leading into advanced math. Calculators, now permitted throughout the math section, will be barred in some portions to help gauge math fluency.

The section now called “critical reading” will be merged with multiple-choice writing questions to form a new section called “evidence-based reading and writing.” Questions known as “sentence completion,” which in part assess vocabulary, will be dropped. Analysis of passages in science, history and social studies will be expanded.

And each version of the test will include a passage from documents crucial to the nation’s founding, or core civic texts from sources such as President Abraham Lincoln or the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.


When the test probes student vocabulary, the College Board said, it will focus on “words that are widely used in college and career.” Coleman cited “synthesis” as an example. “This is not an obscure word, but one students encounter everywhere,” he said.

Choosing such words could prove difficult. Carol Jago, a past president of the National Council of Teachers of English, who serves on a College Board advisory panel, said the test revisions would “reward students who take high school seriously, who are real readers, who write well.” She said she was loath to drop from the exam a word such as “egalitarian,” which appears in one College Board practice test. But she said: “Maybe we can live without ‘phlegmatic.’ ”

再试一次，行不行听天由命吧。

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反正不管怎么变，咱中国人都不怕~
照样冲着满分去

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天啊，终于有个Sat改革的中文文章可以贴了：

转自外滩教育：

当地时间3月5日，美国大学理事会（College Board）宣布2016年SAT考试的具体改革细节，一时激起千层浪，搅动了全球十亿美元的SAT培训市场，《纽约时报》、《华尔街日报》等各大媒体纷纷抢着发布评论。当然，对每年十万的中国考生而言，这绝对是一件息息相关的大事。英锐教育旗下来自美国纽约的SEED SAT培训是专业SAT考辅机构，深谙亚洲学生的长短板，昨日其资深教师就应对新SAT考试越洋支招中国学生。

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和老师一起重新规划复习资料的美国考生

3月5日，美国大学理事会（The College Board）发布2016年SAT改革细节如下：

☞ 用更常见更实用的单词（例如 synthesis或 empirical）代替冷僻的单词（例如 depreciatory或 membranous）。

对中国考生加分还是减分？ ++++

在文学作品或科学文献里才会出现的晦涩难懂的英文词汇，可以理直气壮地拜拜了！省下更多宝贵的时间来更有针对性的准备词汇，或者其它申请中的环节。

☞ 作文改为选择性项目，要求考生先阅读段落，然后分析作者是如何使用证据、推理和风格元素来构建论证的。

对中国考生加分还是减分？++++

虽然不再是必考项，许多大学特别是精英大学还是会建议考生加考作文，例如哈佛、耶鲁建议考生考三项SAT subjects一样。某些学霸也会一如既往地不放过一切机会展示自己。当然，之前靠背范文的这里就没戏了。

▶ 对策 : 加强批判性阅读！只有把别人的东西解构了、吃透了，才能在此基础上形成自己的理解和判断。

☞ 取消原先猜错选项倒扣分的规则。

对中国考生加分还是减分？++++

这是很让学霸们享受的部分同时也是很多考生从SAT转向ACT的一大原因。改革前许多学生选择在吃不准的题目上留空，这个策略很快就会无用武之地。

☞ 总分将回归1600分，阅读和数学各800分。作文单独计分。

数学问题将集中在三个领域：线性方程组；复杂的等式或函数；比率、百分数和比例推理。计算器只在某些部分可以被使用。

对中国考生加分还是减分？++++

中国考生可以扬眉吐气了！难度加深能让各层次的学生拉开距离，让学生探寻数学公式背后的原理。至于计算器，外国学生不用可能会难过死，中国学生连平方都能心算，根本不会是个威胁。

☞ 每次考试，都会在阅读和写作部分包含基于广泛学科的源文档，包括自然科学和社会研究等，学生会被要求摘录原文来支持自己的选择。

对中国考生加分还是减分？- -

许多中国考生还大量依赖于涮真题背单词来武装自己，并大量学习考试技巧。SEED与众不同的地方就是要求学生在平时阅读训练时就像侦探柯南一样在字里行间发现蛛丝马迹，养成火眼金睛的本事。

☞ 每次考试将包括一篇美国的“立国文件”，如《独立宣言》和《人权法案》，或者讨论这些“立国文件”的文章，比如马丁路德金的《来自伯明翰监狱的信》。

对中国考生加分还是减分？- - - -

这可能是让中国学生颤抖的变化了！对于很多中国学生来说，能读过马丁路德金的《我有一个梦想》已经不错，更何况是其它作品？试想，很多国际生在理解50年前的英语时都有困难，更不用说150或250年前了。

▶ 对策：更有针对性的阅读。可喜的是，SEED在平时的阅读训练中已加入大量立国方面的文选。

☞ 其它方面，和可汗学院联盟，给予贫穷学生免费的网上辅导以及免费申请四所大学。机考代替必考。

对中国考生加分还是减分？很难说

全英文的网上辅导对于中国学生而言，好像无关痛痒。某些部分，针对中国学生的考试辅导，可能有相同第二语言习得背景的教师更有优势。机考倒是个好消息，意味着考点将会移到大陆内地。

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来看看变化吧：

        SAT(学术能力评估测试)主办方美国大学委员会College Board在美国时间3月5日周三宣布SAT考试根本的改革，这些改革将在2016年春天开始实施，旨在让考试更加实用和公平，主要是为了向被高等教育拒之门外的学生敞开大门。

        College Board周三发表声明称，由于大学招生考试不够重视重要的理论技能，College Board将反思SAT考试模式，结束长期以来考试时因猜错而被扣分的情况，排除模糊晦涩单词，并考虑在考试中增加可选型写作内容。College Board主席大卫·科尔曼评价SAT及其主要的对手ACT考试时称，两者都越来越与高校教育衔接不上。

        此外，科尔曼先生称，为了帮助贫困学生，他们可以申请四所免除全部学杂费的高校。甚至在2016年春季新的考试方案出台之前，College Board与Khan Academy合作，将提供免费的网上练习题及教学视频来指导学生。

        此次考试改革范围较大：关于SAT考试时稀薄的词汇问题将被一些大学课程里常见的词汇所取代，例如“empirical”和“synthesis”。数学方面，现有考试内容范围较为散乱，改革后会将重点放在方程式、函数和比例方面的知识上。在数学的一些部分上将不再允许考生使用计算器。在星期三的一次演讲会上，大卫·科尔曼说：“是时候让大学入学评估向考生明确，通往成功的道路不是考前临时抱佛脚或者填鸭式的学习，而是多年勤奋努力地学习。”并声称，SAT考试“不再脱离日常的研究和学习。”

        新的考试方案将会在报纸和网上公布，分数将从2,400分改为最初的1,600分。其中数学800分，其余800分是基于材料的阅读和写作。可选型写作题可以让有能力的考生额外加分。

        有人提出怀疑，在申请进入大学方面，新的SAT考试模式是否能比之前使用的标准化测验更有效力？因为考试成绩一直一直以来都与家庭经济水平直接挂钩。SAT考试曾经是顶尖大学的入学考试，但现今被以中学课程为基础的ACT考试赶超，其学员数稍高于SAT考试。去年，1,800,000名学生参加ACT考试，1,700,000名学生参加SAT考试。

        科尔曼先生认可的，相比于标准化测验，中学成绩能更好地预测出学生大学时代的表现。近年来，越来越多的大学让学生自主选择是否参加考试，还是通过提交分数、成绩单或者论文来申请大学。科尔曼称，对于很多学生来说，考试对很多学生来说有难度，而且让他们感到十分焦虑。他也承认，仅20%的任课老师认为大学入学考试对测量学生学业成就是公平的。

        在细节方面，科尔曼强调改革后的SAT考试（3小时或加上论文后3小时50分钟）会更加重视学生在学校学到的技能及分析思考问题的能力，并减少考试技巧和策略方面的难度。有时考试不仅要求学生选出正确的答案，还要求从文中选出支持他们选出这个答案的支持材料。特别是改革后的论文将会强调这一点。现在的考试只要求学生写出他们的经历和观点，对他们表达出来的错误甚至是惊人的观点不予扣分。但改革后的考试，学生将会收到源文档，要求分析这个文档对佐证的利用、推理及说服力或体裁上用到的手法。每场考试的正文部分都会不同，但是论文部分将不变。

        改革后的SAT有些方面会和ACT相似，这些方面正是近两年来SAT被赶超的原因所在。11个国家将ACT加入公立中学的学习内容，还有3个国家也有类似的计划。ACT考试没有猜测型的题目，论文也是可选择的。它也包含科学部分，改革后的SAT虽不增加这类题目，但在阅读方面会增加一篇科学方面的文章。

        近来，越来越多的学生被ACT考试吸引，SAT在西海岸、东北部及华盛顿地区占有优势地位，而1959年成立、受监管于爱荷华州的ACT则在美国中部及南部占有市场。

        这两种考试在任务方面有重叠的部分，但在类型和内容上有所不同。ACT传统上更加注重检验成果，包括科学板块，而SAT则侧重考核思考能力。但是ACT已逐步加入SAT的方式，所以现在很多学生两种考试都参加。2012年，ACT考试人数超过了SAT。两种考试都面临着来自可选择考试与否的挑战，国家列出大概800个高等院校选称愿意大量接受学生，而不需要SAT或ACT成绩。

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新旧SAT对比表

旧版SAT	新版SAT
阅读和写作板块不需要学生引用文中事实。学生通过选择答案展示他们已经理解文章含义，而不需要问及提供任何该答案的支持内容。	以事实为基础的阅读和写作板块。学生需要用具体证据来证明答案，例如学生需要找寻具体文章段落来回答相关问题。
文章来源的学术要求不广泛。虽然SAT的文章会多种多样，当时对于科学和历史累的文章不在要求内。	文章来源的学术覆盖更广泛。学生会在每次SAT考试中读到关于科学、历史和社会学的文章，并且要求用相关课程中学到的分析方法分析文章。
词汇要求有时是生僻词汇或是大学和就业中不会广泛使用的词汇。这些词汇通常有趣并且在某些场合会用到，但是在文章和意义上缺乏广泛性。	考试更多的注重大学和就业中会用到的词汇。新SAT将注重在上下文中特定的合成词汇和多义词的应用。
作文写作通过学生提供个人背景和经历建立论点来考察学生。因为不给学生源材料，因此无法了解他们所列举的论述和举证的准确性。	作文写作要求阅读一篇命题文章后，从文章的分析中建立论点，以此考察学生。写作评分从学生作文中的分析的内容和否贴合命题文章给予相应分数。
数学部分命题来自高中所有数学内容。每个考点一到两题，因此学生需要复习几乎所有的考点。	数学部分将减少考点，仅保留对大学和职业培训有贡献的考点。学生可以深入学习更核心的数学考点。
考生可全程使用计算器。很难了解学生对于数字的心算能力和对于知识点的掌握。	仅部分数学可以使用计算器。计算器会被更加合理地应用，但是不使用计算机的部分可以考察学生的认知、流利度以及运算技巧。
阅读和写作不需要数据分析。阅读和写作部分即使涉及科学和社会学，通常也不会包括图表内容，问题也不会要求学生阅读文字并分析数据。	学生会被要求同时分析文章内容和图表，包括指认并纠正文章和数据的差异性。学生会被要求展示他们阅读科学和社会学文章的整个过程。
文章内容来自鲜为人知或不公示的来源。学生在考试之前不会知道阅读的内容和来源。	每次考试会包括一篇美国建国理念文学或者知名国际演说（the Great Global Conversation）。学生会读到诸如《独立宣言》等的建国理念文学，或是林肯盖茨堡演说或是马丁路德金“我有一个梦想”等影响了美国和世界的著名伟大演说.
错题扣分制。选错答案会被扣0.25分，跳过不做不扣分。	错题不扣分（答对题加分）。鼓励学生答每道题。
作文写作计入总分	写作额外算分
2400分制	1600分制，写作额外算分
SAT仅有笔试	新SAT提供笔试和机考

以上文章由明杰教育整理汇编，仅供参考。