[reaganaut1]

College level reading will sometimes contain "obscure vocabulary words". Most people are not college material, and that's ok! But we're supposed to pretend that they are and shovel more money at our institutions of "higher learning".

[DJ Frisat]

Nice. Lemme see. What do you call a 4-legged, furry animal that says ‘Meow’? I got it — cat!!! C-A-T!!!

I’m a jeenyus!!! Give me a gubbermint job!!!!

Nothing like dumbing-down tests to make ya feel smarter!

[House Atreides]

“What fo dat woord?”

[central_va]

This thread is pedantic. (Google it)

[Tulane]

They can use different words—but math is still math.

[Constitution Day]

This SAT will be perfect for the "student" athletes at UNC-Cheat.

[grania]

(used to be a college test prepper) Those “obscure words” are fair if they’re presented in context and the student has to ascertain their meaning from that. They’re fair in analogies if roots, prefixes and suffixes make it reasonable to figure out their meaning. But multiple choice lists for the meaning?....it does disadvantage students whose language skills did not originate in very erudite environments.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The Common Core supporters will tell you that our education system is falling behind the rest of the world. What they won't tell you is that the lowest achievers (you know who they are) are dragging down the aggregate scores. The unionized education bureaucracy (AKA teachers) are collectivists. They don't look upon students as individuals. They look upon them as herds of cattle.

Fact is, a Japanese kid in an American school does better than a Japanese kid in a school in Japan. Same thing for any ethnic group you can name, except for a particular ethnic group that cannot be named.

Since that ethnic group has an average IQ of 85, it is impossible to raise their scores. In the name of "equality" however, it is possible to cripple the high-achievers and drag their scores down.

It's not fair that some people are more successful than others, you see.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

All I have to say is thank God I went to school and college at a time when there were still some standards and actual measures of achievement and knowledge.

[mistfree]

College has become a very expensive piece of paper proving that you passed high school twice.

[csvset]

Will words like twerk or selfie be included?

[muir_redwoods]

I’ll bet not one test-taker in a hundred could correctly state the actual meaning of either “prejudice” or “discrimination”

[expat_panama]

...Most people are not college material...

That's true on average for the world, but not true in the U.S.  

Americans are the best educated population in the world.   About 85% of Americans graduate from high school and most Americans enter collage.   It's no wonder that the American worker is by far the world's most productive.  Sure, lots of folks (even on these threads) love to bash America, Americans, and American education, but like it or not America is simply exceptional.

[xzins]

As always, it really depends on what they mean by obscure. I’ve seen words come up at spelling bees that would choke a person with multiple PHds in latin, nuclear biological physics, psychology, English lit, and history.

There’s obscure and there’s OBSCURE.

Blepharochalasis anyone?

[9YearLurker]

They already stripped most of the tough vocabulary out of the SAT when they took out the analogies.

This apparently is just removing the remaining scraps.

[dfwgator]

"First of all, we must internalize the 'flatulation' of the matter by transmitting the effervescence of the 'Indianisian' proximity in order to further segregate the crux of my venereal infection. Now, if I may retain my liquids here for one moment. I'd like to continue the 'redundance' of my quote, unquote 'intestinal tract', you see because to preclude on the issue of world domination would only circumvent - excuse me, circumcise the revelation that reflects the 'Afro-disiatic' symptoms which now perpetrates the Jheri Curis activation. Allow me to expose my colon once again. The ramification inflicted on the incision placed within the Fallopian cavities serves to be holistic taken from the Latin word 'jalapeno'."

[ViLaLuz]

¿Porque el examen no se escrita en espanol? ¡Racista!

[Rebelbase]

Too late for a-chill-us.

[zeestephen]

Re: “Revised SAT Won’t Include Obscure Vocabulary Words”

Borborygmus!

(Audible sounds coming from your abdomen - they often begin the same moment you begin to take vocabulary tests)