Pros And Cons Of Abolishing The SAT

1926, the year that started it all. The College Board, which was established in 1900, administered the first SAT to the high school student of America in the year that went down in history. The components of this prestigious and widely praised standardized test include: straightforward math problems that can clearly assess a student’s mathematical skills alone; perhaps a few, many, questions testing students on the current vocabulary teens obviously use in their 21st century lives; and fascinating literature passages that could easily replace a baby’s nightly lullaby. The SAT is a fair test that can fairly test a student’s academic ability while providing students with fair amounts of time for each fair section. After 90 years, the SAT is still sustaining its reign while inspiring many more and is still constantly improving and advancing for the good of its takers. 1959, another ionic year when the promising son of the SAT was born, the ACT. SAT’s son is dominating the flyover states in America, and he’s doing it with a …show more content…
As the parent of the ACT, the SAT clearly has the right to plagiarize the ACT and not feel guilty about this action that indirectly concedes that the ACT is superior. Over the years, the College Board has making the SAT more difficult because too many perfect scores reflect that the SAT is not doing its job, so they make the test harder in order to prevent those hard working perfect scores. One of the major differences in the new SAT would be, the english sections will no longer test students on those beloved old english vocabulary ever again. Takers of the new SAT will never be able to know the joy of learning those valuable words like eschew or lassitude. Regardless of whether students choose to take the new SAT or ACT, each fair test will fairly evaluate their takers on their readiness for