![]() ![]() Taking a test where you cannot read the questions ahead (for the reading comprehension section for instance) and then use the information to understand the gist of the questions as a whole is completely different. This is all impossible when you cannot go back. I was (and remain) an excellent test-taker who skips problems along the way, an answer comes to me later on in the section as it percolates, suddenly three questions later, I realize I misread something in my subconscious, etc. I haven’t really been happy since they recalibrated and started major changes to the SAT in the 1990s, but then I was very happy with the old, old SAT of the 1980s and without test prep at all! I hate that it makes every question do-or-die at that moment. I guess it is clear that I really don’t like adaptive tests. Also, in reading comprehension, when the story is on a computer you cannot mark it up with your pencil to draw attention to things or underline the sentence they are asking about. favor different students.) Personally, and for many students I have taught who take national exams in some subjects, taking an exam on a computer is distracting and their scores are often better on paper. Only six weeks later she took the older SAT (pre-2016 version) and got perfect scores on Verbal and English (no prep), so I know from experience that even when they are testing “reading and math” different formats, foci, etc. (My 15 year old had to take the new PSAT without prep and her score that year (11th grade) went way down from the year before on old PSAT in verbal- she wasn’t even close to NMF when she would have been based on 10th grade score. Each type of test favors some students over others based on test style, but the very top scorers are not always the same. ![]()
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