To familiarise and educate school students of ludhiana about changes in upcoming Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT-General), a workshop was held at the BRS Nagar centre of Top Careers & You (TCY). The workshop helped students understand it as until now were ‘quite scared’ about their May exam.
SAT is a standardised test for most college admissions in the United States and several other countries. It is owned, published and developed by the College Board, a non-profit organization in the US. It tests the skills one learns in school: Reading, Writing and Maths.
On the objective behind organising this workshop, a TCY’s SAT expert said, “Since this international exam is the gateway to the best colleges in the US, it’s our endeavour to prepare our students thoroughly through classroom and online teaching. We have been successful in allaying most of their fears about new changes introduced in the SAT.”
In the new SAT, equal weightage would now be given to language and Math sections: 800 each in place of 1600 for language (800 Reading + 800 Writing) and 800 in Math earlier, to give a 1600 point scale in place of the 2400 point scale.
Given the fact that studies in the US are increasingly getting popular with the students in India, these changes are likely to impact their aspirations as well as their preparations. Indian students, some of whom are likely to be trying their luck simultaneously with IIT JEE also, will remain better equipped for Math section than for language sections.
Our students’ reading habits are relatively less developed, and hence long texts, based on US history and the like, are likely to be a challenge. Yet they are gainers in two important ways here too. For one, with the new 1600-point scale, the English section gets only as much weight as the Math section (800 each), than double the weight earlier (1600-800). Again, with the removal of the Sentence Completion section, they will heave a sigh of relief, being no longer expected to mug up some obscure words.