SAT Results for 2016 and Why You Should Take the ACT This Year

Hi iLearn Academy blog followers,

The College Board has sort of released 2015/2016 SAT results last week. You can view them HERE. The report details results for tests dates prior to the June 2016 test, which was the first date of the new SAT format and scoring. The college board sighted these reasons for not including these new scores in its report:

• The redesigned tests are new tests based on different specifications than the old tests.
• While the majority of students in the class of 2016 took the old SAT, some took the new SAT.
• The way we collect and report race and ethnicity data has changed.
• We changed our data systems to support our new score-reporting portal and to better align to school, district, and state data systems.

The college board is essentially saying that there is not an empirical way to compare the scores of old SAT to the new SAT. This makes it very hard for students, parents and learning facilities like ours to know what a "good" score for the new SAT is. Until students who took the new SAT start getting accepted into colleges there is no clear way to definitively set target scores for students. You can prepare for the content of the new SAT but will have a hard time setting goals for your preparation. Time would be better spent prepping for the ACT, where not only content but scores are defined and consistent.