A question from a student drew my attention to the following SAT Writing question that appeared on the April 2017 SAT.

Here's the relevant paragraph. I've replaced the text of other questions with the correct answers so as not to introduce confusing irrelevancies:

The College Board is having a really bad year.

College Board's response to the compromised August SAT is unfolding the way I predicted:

For those asking, most August SAT scores will be available beginning September 7, as planned. pic.twitter.com/3jNYSsHdTv

— The College Board (@CollegeBoard) August 27, 2018

As students came out of the SAT on the East Coast yesterday, many hit the online forums devoted to discussing the test to discuss questions. And even before the West-Coast students had left their exam rooms, it became evident that the form most of them were given was actually one that had been leaked online months earlier. Multiple students reported that they had practiced on this very test. How serious is this situation? Very.

College Board responded yesterday to the #rescoreJuneSAT complaints with a FAQ page. It is a document which has been very carefully worded, presumably by PR professionals. It makes technically accurate statements while dodging the serious substance of the complaints.

TLDR: The evidence to tell isn't public at this point. It would be much easier to tell if College Board released specific technical data on the test.

Reddit and Twitter have been in an uproar about the results from the June 2018 SAT. Many students are upset that missing only a handful of questions has dropped their scores precipitously, and have been expressing their outrage with the hastag #rescorejunesat.

In my last post, I argued that the SAT essay might be inappropriately difficult for its intended purposes and that floor effects make it essentially worthless for distinguishing among lower-ability students. In this post, I'm going to argue that the SAT essay score appears similarly unhelpful for distinguishing among high-ability students.

The essay on the revised SAT marks a dramatic departure from the old essay. The old essay was a 25-minute, holistically scored exercise in persuasive writing. The new essay is a 50-minute, analytically scored rhetorical analysis.

The College Board just released a statement claiming that SAT preparation works, at least if you use their officially sanctioned provider Khan Academy.