The SAT has gone digital.
The SAT also known as the Scholastic Aptitude Test, is an exam that High school students take for college admissions.
It has been on paper for 98 years before but now it’s going to be fully digital. College Board the company that makes the SAT stated that the online version was meant to maintain the same rigor as the paper test, but less intimidating for students.
And those with A.D.H.D. and dyslexia, as well as those learning English, reported that they were “better able to maintain their focus” on the digital test, compared with the earlier format, said Jaslee Carayol, director of communications for the College Board.
Delivering the test digitally will also reduce the possibility of cheating, the College Board said, because few students will receive the exact same exam.
On March 27 All Sophomores at Wayne Hills took the new version of the PSAT.
From my experience I noticed that both reading sections of the tests contained shortened paragraphs and weren’t long and hard to understand paragraphs.
The SAT will be the same except with a more heavy emphasis on Algebra and with more questions on the math portion and the Reading portion of the Test.
I Spoke to Vedanth, a Junior at Wayne Hills High School, Who took both the paper and digital format of the SAT and PSAT and said that “the digital SAT was much harder than the paper format” and “The main weapon is that people panic and mess up. People being scared is the main weapon”.