#today a question went awry partly bc the kid didn’t understand either part of the phrase ‘critical acclaim’

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so the SAT redesigned itself so that students (college-bound students…) are no longer required to read extended multiparagraph texts. specifically texts have a maximum character of 900, also known as “a little less than four tweets.” which was already depressing but now that admissions season is kicking into gear i have my first students actually prepping for this iteration of the test and it’s really bumming me out that despite what you might think, this doesn’t actually seem to have made the test meaningfully easier and there are in fact bright and ambitious and hard working college bound seniors whose parents can shell out $$$ for test prep who attend very expensive private schools who can’t reliably read 2-5 sentences on a humanities, science, or social sciences topic and answer questions like “what is the author’s claim” or “what is this paragraph mostly about”