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Posted on 03.26.07 by Todd Johnson 2 Comments

More questions on SAT Writing section validity

A MIT professor who has been critical of the new writing section of the SAT recently spoke at a conference on college composition. His comments were reported in todays Inside Higher Ed in an article by Scott Jaschik.

Among the highlights of the article were several suggestions on how to write the SAT prompt to get a good score. These included using “examples from the arts and history, but not worrying whether they make sense), and including key words that the SAT scoring teams are thought to favor (“plethora” and “myriad” are both considered tops”.

We would urge students to review this article before taking future SAT exams.

The whole text of the article can be found at Inside Higher Ed.

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Categories: College Admissions Counseling, College Testing Tags: college admissions, College Testing, SAT writing

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  1. SAT writing section better predictor of college grades than old SAT : College Admissions Counseling says:
    October 26, 2008 at 3:15 pm

    […] Board changed the SAT in 2005 to add a writing section to the required test. There have been many criticisms of the new writing test since that time and many colleges either don’t consider it or give it limited consideration. […]

  2. New SAT no more valid than old SAT : College Admissions Counseling says:
    December 15, 2008 at 12:13 pm

    […] of college success of the three SAT sections.  This is an interesting finding considering the problems that have been previously addressed regarding the writing section. The report finds that high school grades are overall a better predictor of college succes than the […]

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