The SAT Gets a Makeover！影响全球教育未来方向的SAT的重大改革：史无前例！更公平、更公正！
College Board今天发布史无前例的新SAT考试重大改革举措：
主要变化如下：
1. 诘屈聱牙的冷僻词(如prevaricator, sagacious, ignominious, depreciatory, membranous)不再考查，改为更常见的词(如synthesis, empirical)
2. 作文改为选考，要求对于文章进行分析，具体而言，分析作者是如何使用证据、推理和风格元素来构建论证。(Those who choose to write an essay will be asked to read a passage and analyze how its author used evidence, reasoning and stylistic elements to build an argument.)；
3. 猜测选项倒扣分的规则被取消了；
4. 2400分取消；1600满分：阅读800，数学800，作文单独计分；
5. 数学会专注于实用的领域，范围变窄，但是难度变大。具体领域是：线性等式；复杂的等式或方程；比率，百分比和比例推理。计算器只在某些部分可以被使用。
6. 在“基于证据的阅读和写作”部分(Evidence-Based Reading and Writing)，有着来自于广泛领域的源文档，包括科学、社会研究等。需要更多分析的问题（从文中摘录原文来支持自己的选择）。
7. 每次考试必定包括一篇美国的”立国文档“，比方说《独立宣言》、《人权法案》，或者讨论这些“立国文档”的文章，比方说马丁路德金的《来自伯明翰监狱的信》。
8. 注重对于贫困人群的照顾，和Khan可汗学院联合提供免费的在线教育培训以便于抵消有钱人能够获得的私教先发优势，让贫困学生免费申请四个大学
9.考试将会有机考和纸考两个版本；
College Board 主席大卫.库乐门(David Coleman)称SAT与其说重新设计，不如说重归前原来的宗旨：为更多人提供机会!
TIME.com原文：
The prominent SAT college entrance exam will return to its previous 1,600-point scoring system and the essay portion will be optional starting in 2016, the group that creates the test said Wednesday, the biggest makeover in almost a decade for an exam familiar to any high school student with an eye on college.
The group that makes the test, the College Board, also announced a unprecedented test-preparation partnership with the online Kahn Academy that could cut deep into the lucrative business of the existing test-prep industry. Under the new test format, which last underwent an overhaul in 2005, no points will be deducted for wrong answers, encouraging students to take a chance if they’re unsure of the answer. Students will be able to choose whether or not they complete the essay portion of the test, and for those who don’t, the top score will go from 2,400 back to the older 1,600. And vocabulary words will be more practical words like “synthesis,” instead of the archaic SAT vocabulary words that have long pained cramming high school students, but rarely occur in normal conversation. Students will also be able to take the test on a computer.
And in a bid to expand access to college, qualifying low-income students who take the test will get their application fees waived in applying to four schools.
“What this country needs is not more tests, but more opportunities,” College Board president David Coleman said in a statement. “The real news today is not just the redesigned SAT, but the College Board’s renewed commitment to delivering opportunity.”
Coleman also announced a new partnership with Kahn Academy to provide free, online test-prep. In a dig at the test-prep industry, Coleman said the status quo promotes inequality by charging high fees for testing secrets.
“If there are no more secrets,” he said, “it’s very hard to pay for them.”
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