KAPLAN NEW SAT调查结果

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Kaplan's New SAT Survey Results
www.kaplantest.com
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Kaplan sent more than 100 interviewers to randomly selected test sites throughout the United States on March 12th. Kaplan interviewed 1,998 respondents at 39 sites. Here's what they told us:


More than 25% of students ran out of time on the essay!
"The essay was a good topic, but I ran out of time because I did not have enough time to explain myself as thoroughly as I wanted to," observed one test taker from Connecticut. A Washington state respondent agreed, "I liked the essay section and the new error-correction sections, but I needed more time for the essay," while students from Georgia and Florida respectively echoed the common refrain, commenting that the essay time "was too short" and "needs to be lengthened."

The New SAT is long!
Student comments overwhelmingly cited length as an issue: "There is absolutely no reason to make the test this long. It will still be just as effective if some of the sections are removed. No other tests are this long," wrote one respondent who took the SAT in New York, where the three-hour Regents' exam is administered. "I thought the test was long. At the end I had blurred vision," said another test-taker from Texas.

& l: f: K3 j' P$ {$ B7 e( t  P/ ^The extended length of the SAT makes it now longer than the graduate admissions exams for business school (GMAT, 3 ?hours), law school (LSAT, 3 hours, 25 minutes) and graduate school (GRE, 2 ?hours)—in fact, among all admissions tests, only the medical school admissions exam (MCAT, 5 ?hours currently) is longer.

Despite the length of the SAT, the test administrator's policy forbids students to bring snacks to the test - an issue many students raised. "The College Board should allow some snacks in between because the test is extremely long and by the end I was really hungry," said a test-taker from California while a respondent from Illinois agreed, "I also got hungry during the test, even though I ate breakfast.
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The essay isn't the only hard part!
Kaplan's survey also found that despite the media attention on the essay, 70 percent of test-takers reported they found the critical reading and math sections the most challenging. "Either I didn't remember some words or math equations, or some of the stuff I wasn't taught yet," reported one respondent from North Carolina, while a Utah test-taker said, "The English is really difficult."

While most students felt the test was too long, they also felt there was not enough time allotted to the essay. Only 13 percent of test-takers found the essay to be the most challenging section, but a majority (55 percent) felt their essay scores would not accurately represent their writing ability, because of the timed conditions. More than a quarter of test-takers reported running out of time on the new essay section, so that they were forced to turn in half-finished compositions.

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that is the really problem,without snacks!

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我只看了又大又蓝的字，anyway，3Q～

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只看蓝颜色的．．．．

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the point is  we have no choice!!

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太好了
就是有点恐怖