Making standardized tests easier won’t increase their value:
The previous version of the SAT featured reading passages that ranged from 500 to 750 words with multiple questions following each passage. But the new version has reading passages ranging from only 25 to 150 words, with just one question tied to each passage.
The ACT has made similar changes: 44 fewer questions overall, a shorter test (125 minutes versus the previous 195 minutes), and more time per question. The ACT’s reading section is now 40 minutes long (previously 35 minutes) and has 36 questions (previously 40). It’s one fewer question per passage (four reading passages with nine questions per passage instead of 10).
Both the SAT and the ACT made their math sections easier: The number of answer choices is now four instead of five, meaning your chance of randomly guessing the right answer increases from 20% to 25%.”
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