Logic! Why don't they teach logic?
SAT’s new essay requirement is more about fashion than thought
Andrée Seu

Reading 142 high-school essays a week (my summer job) is like overhearing one end of a phone conversation: You can tell what's being said on the other end by what's filtering through on yours. I haven't set foot in the classroom of this SAT preparation school except to pick up and drop off on Tuesdays and Fridays, but it took only the first few bluebooks to discern the test-busting formulas dispensed in Ms. G's room.

The Educational Testing Service in its redoubtable wisdom (and perhaps in capitulation to California higher learning institutions, which threatened in 2001 to drop the admissions criteria as culturally outmoded) added in 2005 a 25-minute writing section to the already-dreaded College Board bugbear. Lucky for me I took the thing in 1968 because I would score 0 on a possible 6 today, turning in a blank page save for neurotic scribbles of horses. the rest image