Is the Upcoming SAT Really Going to Be Harder Because of a New Question Bank?
I keep seeing videos on social media saying the upcoming SAT is going to be significantly harder because the College Board added a bunch of new questions to the bank. Is there any truth to this, or is it just a rumor? I'm stressing out that I'm taking it on the hardest month.
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It's mostly marketing panic. People selling tutoring services or test prep courses often say the next test is going to be the 'hardest ever' to get engagement. …
But what about those new questions the College Board just released? Someone said they added thousands of super hard geometry questions so we can't use graphing …
That rumor got blown out of proportion. They only released about 270 new questions to the educator bank, not thousands. And many of those weren't actually 'new'…
What happens if I get a test form with questions I've literally never seen anything like before? Are those the new hard ones?
Those are likely 'experimental' questions. Every digital SAT includes a few unscored experimental questions to test them out for future exams. If you see someth…
Is it true that the August test is historically harder than the ones in the spring?
That is a total myth. The College Board uses Item Response Theory (IRT), meaning the test doesn't have a traditional scale and isn't graded on a curve based on …