https://www.collegeboard.org/delivering-opportunity/sat/redesign
It will be going back to two sections instead of the current three, and the essay will be optional. There will be 8 key changes:
- Relevant Words in Context - no more memorizing esoteric SAT word lists
- Command of Evidence - a common theme across reading, writing, and essay
- Essay Analyzing a Source - read a passage, analyze and explain how the author builds an argument (similar/along the line of essays in AP English)
- Focus on Math that Matters Most - focus on 3 areas: problem solving/data analysis, linear algebra, and advanced math
- Problems Grounded in Real-World Contexts - more real world based questions
- Analysis in Science and in History/Social Studies - applying reading, writing, language, and math skills to answer questions in science, history, and social studies
- Founding Documents and Great Global Conversation - more reading passages from US founding documents (such as Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Bill of Rights, Federalist Papers, etc.) as well as texts from so-called Great Global Conversations (words from the likes of Edmund Burke, Henry David Thoreau, Gandhi, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Barbara Jordan, and Martin Luther King Jr)
- No Penalty for Wrong Answers - guessing is OK