BY HANNAN ADELY
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD
When the new SAT is given for the first time on March 5, many high school students across North Jersey will be sitting it out.
They’re concerned that the test, uncharted and unfamiliar, will be too much of a gamble despite test makers’ pledge that the new version will focus more on what students learn in school and less on test prep and “tricks.” Even some guidance counselors and experts are urging students to wait before taking the new test or to take an alternative college-entrance exam called the ACT.
“We have been talking about this at length,” said Kelly Peterfriend, counseling supervisor at Northern Highlands Regional High School, who is recommending that students take the ACT. “The reason is that you have to give the College Board, the colleges and the test-prep companies time to see what the new test is all about.”
The SAT, created in the 1920s and administered by the non-profit College Board, remains an important measure for admission at many colleges, and in an academically competitive area like North Jersey, students may spend months or even years preparing for the exam. But now, those lessons could mean little as students sit for an exam with a new format, content and questions — one where strategies long taught by tutors no longer apply.
While experts say the test changes could be good for students in the long term, the current crop of high school juniors say they feel confused and worried about the choices before them, and how the changes will affect their scores and college prospects.
https://www.northjersey.com/news/new-sats-have-north-jersey-students-prepping-for-worst-1.1515693
What an absolute joke and a complete waste of time and resources. When is this crap going to stop ? Standardized testing only suits the machine that is the College Board and the creeps that run it and the administrators that use it and wait with their hans out for kickbacks. what a disgrace. Now the youngsters are going to be pulling their hair out FOR WHAT??? STOP THE MADNESS!!!!
The test will be new for everyone so Ridgewood students will not be at a disadvantage.
The Sat and Act provide a way to compare students across the country. High schools and grading policies differ across the country. If students take the test is offers a better way to compare applicants.
The SATs have been around forever. When I was in high school no one complained about the test. I went to private school and was happy to fake the test. Now every test seems like an imposition
In the 70’s we took Regent exams every year and the SAT senior year.
It is just what we did. No fear, no stress. Why is it harder now?
Because YOU made it harder.If junior dosen’t ace the exams then he’s going to jump off the roof because he’s not getting into Harvard. GOD FORBID.The SAT and the college admissions process in general is nothing more than the culmination of socioeconomic sorting. Our educational system is nominally about education, but really about separating kids from each other, something the affluent drive the hardest. For affluent parents especially, education appears to be primarily an 18-year effort, not to educate as much and as many as possible, but to position their kid ahead of all the others so that they may find themselves on the top of the economic hierarchy in adulthood. The SAT and the college admissions process is the connector that glues together socioeconomic past and socioeconomic future. Stating that the test is used to “compare” students is laughable as is the comment of Ridgewood students being at a disadvantage. PLEASE.
4:56 you seen angry at someone. Maybe your kid did not meet expectations.
The tests do provide an objective compsrison of students. Look at Naviance and the scattergrams. It lets you compare your scores with others. Look up colleges and see if your scores are in with their averages.
Metrics matter.
Re: “education appears to be primarily an 18-year effort, not to educate as much and as many as possible, but to position their kid ahead of all the others so that they may find themselves on the top of the economic hierarchy in adulthood. ”
EXACTLY…
I’ll continue to work to position my kids ahead of all others. so that they may find themselves on the top of the economic hierarchy in adulthood
… and you can continue to educate your kids to be as equally educated as all the other kids.
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Works for me.
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