(06-14-2017, 10:17 AM)HURRICANE!!! Wrote: Personally, I think we probably failed at a much higher rate in the past but nobody really cared or put a number or rating on it.   The age of the internet has shed a lot of light on everything so now we've become a numbers society and the demands are very high.

Our education system has vastly improved over the past 50 years but we're a society focused on the bad.  I mean c'mon, back in the day if you got a 1,000 on your SAT you were considered relatively smart.  Today if you get a 1,000 your considered a dumb-[BLEEP].

Quote:The new SAT is different in many ways from the old model. To name just a few, the questions have four rather than five answer choices, there are fewer math concepts covered, and hard vocabulary is no longer directly tested. Comparing the two tests is like comparing apples to oranges. Instead, College Board has come up with calculations that allow colleges to compare scores on the new SAT to those on the old one. Its research has found, for instance, that a 730 on the new test’s math section is equivalent to a 700 on the old.