From the New Yorker: Successful Book Publicist (And Author) Describes Reading High Scoring SAT Essays: “Horrified

The article describes a mother who decided to take the SAT and managed to eventually raise her score from 610 CR, 680 CW and 510 Math, to 740, 800 and 560.  When she took the 2 part SAT as a high school junior in 1982,  she got 410 verbal, 480 math. The article also mentions how […]

The SAT Essay Test is This Bad????

I started reading http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/09/magazine/the-story-behind-the-sat-overhaul.html?src=me&ref=general&_r=1 in the New York Times Magazine and I was stopped dead in my tracks with amazement, even for me.  You will see why when you read my comment.  Here it is: “This tale from the article (that I have copied and pasted below) is outrageous.  Unfortunately, from my observations as a former professor, […]