CURMUDGUCATION: Avoid the SAT

CURMUDGUCATION: Avoid the SAT:
Avoid the SAT

 This story has been circulating pretty steadily, but if you teach juniors (or have one in your home) you need to be paying attention, because all indications are that when the new SAT rolls out in a few months, high school juniors should avoid it


The most recent sign that the College Board doesn't really know what the heck they're doing is the announcement that PSAT scores will not be out till January, a good month later than the usual unveiling. And really, we have only the College Board's assurance that they will meet the new January due date-- just as we had their assurance that scores would be out in December.

The PSAT score return is critical because it's the first chance for juniors to see how they line up with the upcoming New! Improved! SAT. Now they'll be waiting for that.

This is not the first we've heard that the New! Improved! SAT should be avoided like a bad haircut.

Way back in April, Dan Edmonds (Noodle) was in Forbes giving three reasons to avoid the revamped SAT. His reasons were

1) Lack of test prep options. Nobody has had a chance to get prepped and ready to get students CURMUDGUCATION: Avoid the SAT: