WEBINAR: Why The New Digital SAT is a Disaster...Why You Should Certainly Take The Current Version

College Board plans to introduce a new "digital" SAT in the spring of 2024, designed to be taken online rather than on paper. But early examples of this new test suggest that--just as with other forms of online learning--it has many bugs and inherent weaknesses to work out. For instance, the Critical Reading section no longer offers "passages" with multiple questions but rather "paragraphs" with a single question. Although some may imagine that this format will make the test "easier," because it is a normative test that places test-takers on a Gaussian or bell curve, the test can't be "easier" in any meaningful sense--it will simply be different.

There are serious concerns about whether Ivy-level colleges will give much weight to this new test--and many reasons why students planning on taking the SAT should strongly consider taking the current version, rather than the new, likely-to-be-controversial newer version.

In a brief 45-minute webinar I will discuss this new test, and why most 10th and 11th graders--and even some 9th graders--should consider taking the current version.