1、2016年5月新SAT首考阅读：历史类文章解题技巧

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在新SAT的OG中，College Board (以下简称CB）发布了新的文章体裁，其中有一个体裁显得特别的引人注目：History！在OG的练习以及3月首考之后学生的反馈信息来看，历史类的文章主要分为两大类：一类是和建国文献有关，另一类是和女权主义有关。

建国文献，不言而喻，和美国的历史有关；美国的建国历史可以作为背景材料来理解考试所选的篇章。在美国的历史背景中，指的注意的是：美国并不是像其他的殖民国家一样，遭到过英国的独裁专制；相反，美国更像是英国的附属国，有自己的国民议会，通过国民议会对英王汇报事务。其次，美国在建国的过程中并不是一帆风顺的，因此，在通过联邦宪法之后，会有很大的争议。在考试的文章中，有对宪法规定的内容进行争论的正反观点。

如果说，对于开国文献我们不熟悉，至少能够看得懂，美国建国历史可以给我们当做背景的补充；那么，女权主义相对来说就要难一些。

女权主义在OG的文章中几乎每套题都出现。女权主义到底是指的什么？曾经问过我所带的每一位学生，包括在美国上学的学生，对于女权的了解仅仅停留在女性的选举权和受教育权。而事实上，女权所包含的内容非常的广泛。女权的范围非常的广泛，包括：educational opportunity, economic opportunity, equal rights to political participation, an end to violence against women, and end to sexual double standard, respect women’s work at home, and jobs that fulfill family responsibility.

也是就包括受教育权，享有经济权利，平等的政治权利，结束对妇女的暴力行为，结束性别歧视，尊重妇女的工作等等。因此，当我们看到有关妇女的教育和工作的文章的时候，我们就知道这是有关于女权的文章。

在女权的文章中有的文章并不是很好懂。例如OG当中有一篇是Virginia Woolf。Virginia Woolf是一个意识流派的作家,同时也是一位女权主义者。她的文章中会出现一些同学们比较难懂的句子，说的非常的隐晦，会让大家不知道到底在说什么？我们来看下面一句话：

在这里，我们会看到段首句说的是：在泰晤士桥上，这里是非常有利于做调查的。自然，我们会想到这会说接下来会讲要做什么样的调查。但是，Virgina 并没有写什么调查，反而是在描写泰晤士河的景色：河水从桥下流过，货船装负载着木材和玉米。桥的一遍是城市的建筑，另一边是威斯敏斯特教堂和议会。看到这里，完全不明白Virgina想要说什么。开始说这里对于调查研究有利，但是后面却是在描写风景。因此，看到这里，我们就需要继续往下看，后文会有地方来解释我们无法理解的句子。后文写到：

但是现在不行现在我们时间紧迫。现在我们要关心事实；现在我们要把我们的目光投射到procession上，这群人就是受教育的男人的儿子们（其实也就是受教育的男人）

那么我们现在可以知道，作者在这里所描写的这座桥，就是为了引出后文对于这类受教育的男人的关注。那么Virginia Woolf是一个女权作家，自然我们就知道，这篇文章主要想要描述的就是女性教育这一方面的问题。

因此，历史类的文章，如果对于背景有一定的了解，对于我们理解文章是有一定的帮助的。在这类文章中遇见读不懂的句子，不要着急，继续往下读，作者想要说的东西就会自然的浮现出来。最后，关于新SAT亚太首考的最新消息，大家可以参考新SAT亚太首考现场直击专题，获取更多2023年SAT考试情况。祝大家SAT考试取得理想分数。

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2、SAT重回1600分 新版2016年实施

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The essay will be optional, and will be based on a source document included in the test. The top test score will be 1,600 -- as it was before 2005, when the writing section and essay were added. The test\'s two mandatory sections, "evidence-based reading and writing," and math, and will take up to three hours to complete. The essay will take up to 50 minutes, and will be scored separately.

Some math questions will prohibit calculator use. Students will no longer lose points for wrong answers. The test will be available both in print and digitally. The price hasn\'t been announced.

David Coleman, who in 2012 became president of the nonprofit company College Board that owns the SAT, will present the broad outline of the test redesign in a speech in Austin on Wednesday, part of the SXSWedu conference. The changes are meant to mitigate the unfair test-prep culture the SAT has engendered, to foster more meaningful learning in school, and to make the testing process more open, Coleman said in the prepared text of his speech. More details will be released in mid-April.

"We plan to make an exam that is clearer and more open than any in our history," Coleman said in the speech. "We need to get rid of the sense of mystery and dismantle the advantages that people perceive in using costly test preparation.\'"

The new test will be so un-mysterious that Coleman is already giving away one question -- the essay: "As you read the passage in front of you, consider how the author uses evidence such as facts or examples, reasoning to develop ideas and to connect claims and evidence, and stylistic or persuasive elements to add power to the ideas expressed. Write an essay in which you explain how the author builds an argument to persuade an audience." Only the source material will vary.

Coleman condemned the old SAT and its competitor, the ACT, calling them out of touch, and sometimes inadvertent culprits in creating educational inequity.

"It is time to admit that the SAT and ACT have become disconnected from the work of our high schools," he said. "Too many feel that the prevalence of test prep and expensive coaching reinforces privilege rather than merit.

"It is time for the College Board to say in a clear voice that the culture and practice of costly test preparation … drives the perception of inequality and injustice in our country," Coleman said. "It may not be our fault but it is our problem."

The goal, according to Coleman, is getting students to engage more deeply in day-to-day schooling. "What this country needs is not more tests, but more opportunities," he said. "It is time for the College Board to move from measuring to acting."

The College Board will make other adjustments with the test redesign. Every student who takes the SAT and is below a certain income threshold will receive four waivers for college application fees. The College Board is working with The Atlantic magazine to create a contest that showcases students\' best SAT essays. And in a move that will likely draw resistance from the test-preparation industry, the College Board is partnering with the online, YouTube-based study guide Khan Academy to create free test-preparation tools for students. The videos will have exclusive access to practice problems from actual SAT tests.

The new exam reflects the sensibilities of Common Core State Standards, the guidelines for what students should be learning in each grade that Coleman helped design, as well as those of other states that have made their standards more rigorous. Currently, 46 states have adopted the Common Core, and teachers are already implementing the standards. Some educators have said they think the revamped SAT may encourage Common Core states to continue rolling out the guidelines, despite growing political opposition in some places.

"What I sense here -- all of us who have been in these conversations assume the same thing -- David Coleman is bringing the Common Core to the SAT," said Anthony Carnevale, a Georgetown University professor who leads the school\'s Center on Education and the Workforce. Carnevale was not formally briefed on the SAT changes. But as a former vice president of Educational Testing Services, he was involved with conversations around the revamped test.

Coleman has repeatedly said the Common Core aims to have students learn focused material based on the idea that standards should be "fewer, clearer, higher." Like the Common Core, the SAT reading section will include non-literary texts, including non-fiction, social studies, science, and historical articles. Students will be asked to analyze data "in real-world contexts, including identifying and correcting inconsistencies between the two," according to a College Board memo.

The test also will include at least one American founding document, or a document on "Great Global Conversation they inspire." Students will be required to cite evidence from source texts to support answers. Vocabulary words will move away from obscure, so-called SAT words to words like "synthesis" and "empirical" likely to be used in college and whose meanings shift with context.

One Common Core goal was to have students "read like a detective," basing inferences on evidence instead of personal feelings. The new SAT\'s source-based essay is supposed to help colleges judge students\' analytical abilities, since a document will enable scorers to fact-check the basis of assertions, instead of merely grading writing and coherence.

And in math, Common Core aims to have students focus on numerical fluency and mastering fewer concepts, but fundamental ones. The new SAT\'s math section will focus on three areas: "Problem Solving and Data Analysis," the "Heart of Algebra" and "Passport to Advanced Math."

"It is really about being quantitatively literate," Coleman said, comparing elemental algebra skills to a "trunk of a tree or the handle of a fork."

Carol Jago, who leads the College Board\'s English Academic Advisory Committee, and the University of California, Los Angeles California Reading and Literature Project, said the new test\'s Common Core similarities have less to do with the new state standards than with broader educational shifts.

"Both the Common Core and this redesign are a result of this zeitgeist -- the statistics on students who are arriving in college who aren\'t ready for credit-bearing work," Jago said. "This movement to bring more rigor, more authenticity, bring a reading-writing task, comes from the same fire."

A few states, including Texas, are not implementing the Common Core. But the revamped SAT nevertheless will be relevant, according to Donald Kamentz, who directs college initiatives at YES Prep Public Schools, a charter school chain, and who sat on the national SAT committee.

"We were assured that this assessment is aligned to … even our state math" and English standards, he said. "It is a broader sense of the skills needed for college readiness and career readiness."

The new test will come with a warning that a standardized test is but one measure of a student\'s academic prowess -- a warning that Stephen Handel, the University of California associate vice president in charge of undergraduate admissions, stressed. "What we need is what we\'ve always needed: Indicators that are reliable and valid which give us the sense of a student\'s potential," said Handel, who was briefed on the redesign. "Without seeing the test itself, it\'s hard to say [whether the new test will be more predictive of student success in college," he added. "In theory, it\'s a great idea."

Others disagreed. Gary Gruber, a physicist who publishes SAT preparation books, said he worried the changes would "dumb down" the test.

"They\'re taking out difficult vocabulary words," Gruber said. "You have a word like magnanimous, but there\'s a strategy -- associate it with another word like magnify. That\'s something you don\'t want to lose."

Carnevale said he expects the new test to become a better measure of economically driven educational inequity.

"The better the test gets, the more carefully it\'ll reflect the underlying distribution of income and power in America, and that\'s a problem," Carnevale said.

Coleman "is a key player in the American personnel system in a world where his test is the one thing that can go wrong for a middle-class family trying to ensure that their children are middle class," Carnevale continued. "People are very invested in this test, so he has to be very careful."

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美国大专院校委员会5日宣布，将对俗称美国“高考”的SAT(学习能力测试)实施改革，包括将作文改为选考项目、突出常用词汇、推出机考等，新版考试自2016年起正式实施。

这将是SAT考试自2005年以来首次重要改版。委员会总裁戴维·科尔曼当天宣布，新版考试将继续考核阅读、数学、写作等能力，突出分析能力的重要性，将使考试内容更适合评测学生在高中阶段的学习情况以及对大学学习的适应能力。他说，希望这些改革措施能让广大学子“如释重负”。

改革重点包括：总分由2400分改为1600分，包括阅读800分、数学800分，考试时间3个小时；其中作文部分由必考项改为自选项，考试时间50分钟，分数另计，将提供一篇文章，重点测试学生对文章使用论据、论述过程的分析能力，而非作者本身的论述能力；数学测试部分将缩小范围，并

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限定计算器只适用于其中部分环节；取消现行的“错题扣分”原则，这一原则起初是为了预防学生在考试中“猜答案”而设；调整词汇量考试范围，减少对生僻词汇的考核，更突出日常学习中常用词汇；阅读部分要增加一篇“经典”阅读材料，包括《独立宣言》等节选。此外，还准备推出机考，与笔试并行。

据美国媒体报道，美国大专院校委员会近年来在酝酿SAT考试改革，原因之一也是为了应对美国另一项大学入学标准测试——ACT的竞争。SAT考试在美国东海岸和西海岸地区更受欢迎，去年共有170万人参加。ACT考试在美国中部更受欢迎，但自2012年以来在全美大有赶超SAT之势。ACT考试已计划于2015年推出机考。

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3、SAT 求2016年11月北美真题，价格可商

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4、2016年SAT考试四大变革

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2023年，SAT考试发生了四大变革，下面我们来逐一研究下。

阅读部分：

新SAT阅读更重视学生的文本细读能力与对文本细节的理解。考试改革说明中明确规定了精读题的考察范围和出题比例：1、即识别明确信息，要求学生能够读懂文章中给出的明确的信息；2、识别隐含信息，要求学生能够从文章中做出合理推断与结论；3、运用类比推理，要求学生能够从文章中做出合理推断或者能将文章中的观点与信息运用到一个新的，类似的情景之中。

每道题难度系数不同，不仅要求考生理解文章基本内容，还要求考生能够应用从文中得到的线索来推断作者的意图，进而从自己的角度来评估文章的价值和作者的取向。所以考生在阅读一篇文章时，不仅要把握文章的细节，更应该搞懂文章的整体框架与作者的中心思想。

数学部分：

新SAT在数学部分强化了考试的检测和预测功能。通过检测考生对考查知识内容的范围和深度，以及在考试题目上的数学技能和实践，来有效地评估考生对大学和职业的已有准备程度和未来成功可能。倡导“将最为必要的数学丰富地应用于处理现实世界的情况和问题”的指导理念，强调数学知识在现实问题解决中的重要作用。

“最为必要的数学”，是指“集中于对大学和职业的准备和成功最为重要的数学，即在大学课程和职业环境中可以证明是最为有用的数学”，因为“对学生而言，相比于试图在很大的数学专题范围内掌握宽泛的知识，只将某些内容知道清楚更加有助于适用范围较大的准备工作”。关于“丰富地应用”，CB认为，“数学的概念、技能和实践是学生在大学课程、职业训练和职业机会中能够进步的前提和中心”。并且指出，“考试涵盖所有数学实践，并且强调问题解决、建模、有策略地使用合适的工具，以及寻找并利用做代数的结构”。“现实世界的情况和问题”导致了新SAT数学部分与现行SAT数学部分的一个显著区别，即有更多题目将问题情境取材于现实生活，并且不可避免地导致题目呈现上文字长度和难度的增加。这一点，可以通过对比新旧官方指南中的题目而明显感知。

文法部分：

从之前官方释放的新PSAT考试来看，新SAT考试与新PSAT考试，无论从难度上、考题特征、和各类题量配比上来看，都具有极高的相似度和统一性。

首先，基础语法知识弱化，语义要求增难。新SAT在文法部分，无论从难度还是题量上呈现出大幅度减低的趋势。美国大学理事会把常规语法使用规则的考点基本锁定在代词、平行结构、指代关系，时态，以及句子结构完整性上。

其次，改革特征明确，转向英文能力的测量，技巧弱化。美国大学理事会一直在改革说明中强调对于词的深度把握与使用，要求减低考察生僻词及对词的简单记忆，在第一套考题中，我们便清晰地看到了这一决心。在第一套考题中，便频繁出现“语境中词汇”这一考点，包括介词的使用，语义重复等。

第三，标点符号覆盖考点广而深，题量比例高，从句子结构过渡到句间逻辑的理解。现行SAT语法在考查是涉及标点符号的基本使用规则，要求学生从标点符号的角度确认句子结构的正确与否，鲜少考查到学生标点符号在段落之中的句间逻辑功能。从目前官方发表的所有样题来看，标点符号的考查会是新SAT的重中之重，除了使用标点符号确认句子结构之外，更侧重标点在段落之中的作用，例如，举例功能，逗号的分割、断句作用，分号的并列功能。

第四，文章题成主导型题目，深入考察学生对文章的了解，语法解题相关性弱。新SAT考试的文章题与官方发布的考试说明十分契合，着重于考查学生对段落的分析能力：以句子为载体，分析文章的发展（是否需要论据补充），文章的逻辑结构（句子的位置以及功能是否不符合文章脉络发展），是否是直接论据（论证的相关性），以及作者的写作策略分析。

写作部分：

《新SAT官方指南》写作分为两部分，一为写作简介，二为四套写作测试题。写作题材上，此次官方指南的六篇文章之前在可汗学院的平台上都已经公布过。文章均为议论文，题材涉及广泛但是无需专业背景知识，主要来源于权威报刊、杂志、名人演讲，以及关于阅读文学作品对读写能力、公民意识、历史和政治意识以及经济的重要性等文章。

可以看出，改革后，写作不再是对一个抽象话题进行主观立论和展开，而是对一篇现有的文章做出鉴赏，进行分析型写作。无论哪种类型的写作，首先都应该研究其官方的评分标准。《新SAT官方指南》的写作简介（P.178）着重讲解了评分标准中论点的建立，论据、论证、其它风格与元素的定义、重要性和彼此的区别。在改革后，阅读能力是基础，分析能力是核心，写作能力是保障，对于中国学生最薄弱的分析环节，官方指南中明确提出，文章不必把论据、论证、风格要素的所有点都处理到位，只需衡量分析，选取几个重要点充分展开即可获得高分。

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