新SAT于美国时间3月5日上午终于拉开了帷幕。美国各大媒体纷纷从大选的报道中拨出版面，对新SAT进行了报道。

美国福克斯新闻台（fox5ny）在考试前夜邀请了包括大学校长和CB专家在内的教育人士对新SAT进行了评论。

首先出场的美国Bard College校长Dr. Leon Botstein.对SAT和ACT考试不屑一顾。用一个词来说，就是ludicrous。他认为，这些考试除了让学生进入大学，没有任何用处。

Bard

College President

“I

think both of these tests are ludicrous. They don’t do anybody any good; not

the taker, not the college. America is obsessed with these tests. The college

rankings are partially to blame for this," said Bard College President.

Dr. Leon Botstein.

“They're

dumb. They are useless. Doing well on a test has nothing to do with learning

and nothing to do with being successful in life. It helps you get into college

and nothing else," said Dr. Botstein.

培训机构的人士这样认为：

“When the colleges are seeing

applications from thousands of high schools , many that they don't recognize,

they need an objective way to compare students among each other," said

Eric Greenberg, owner of an educational and tutoring service.

随后出场的是Jim Montoya（ College Board Sr. VP of Higher Ed.），他对新SAT评价甚高。他强调了新SAT的三点：

第一，  猜错题不扣分；

第二，  写作虽然是选考，但对录取还是非常重要的。

第三，新SAT更加实用，比如数据的分析。

两位新闻主播现场拿来一道OG上的题目进行示范。如下图：

男主播选E（你没看错），而女主播很快报出正确答案B。

3月5日考试结束后，美联社对参加考试的考生进行了采访。几名学生对新SAT一致乐观。

Brian Keyes, a junior at Woodrow Wilson

High School in the nation's capital, says he really didn't mind the new SAT.

"There aren't as many questions where

it's trying to trick you ... It was much more straightforward," he said

For

math, he said, "the new version was a lot more like basic concepts, so it

wouldn't be very obscure formulas that you have to remember. If you had the

basics of algebra down, even if the problem was difficult, you could work your

way through it."

Said classmate Isabel Suarez, a junior:

I liked it better than the old one. I thought that it was

way more applicable to what we've been learning in school. The English was a

lot easier for me than it was with the old one.

Isabel, a junior, said the math was a little harder.

"It was more algebra based, but I think I was able to perform a lot better

on it than the old one because it was stuff that I actually learned in

school."

关于写作

In fact, Suarez, who likes to write, said she

enjoyed the reading section. "My AP English class definitely really

prepared me for it. I honestly enjoyed the grammar part because I like to pick

out problems in writing. It was pretty fun actually."

综合来看，美国教育界对SAT的态度仍然是两种力量的拉锯：一方面观点强调，考试不代表一切，考试不是唯一指标；另一方面强调，考试也在尽量贴近学生实际能力。

另外，CB本次将成人参加的SAT考试挪往5月份，以杜绝某些培训机构偷题泄题，这说明CB在打击泄题方面确实有所行动。3月这次考试的分数也将延期至5月出成绩。