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Chapter 2 Eight Key Changes to the SAT Tis chapter describes the major changes in the SAT that make it more focused and useful than ever before. Tese changes occur starting with the March 2016 administration of the SAT and the October 2015 administra- tion of the PSAT/NMSQT®. Te redesigned SAT, which parallels changes in the PSAT/NMSQT and PSAT™ 10 and the new PSAT™ 8/9, will test the few things that research shows have strong connections to college and career readiness and success. Te eight key changes are described below. Relevant Words in Context Rather than testing you on seldom-used words and phrases in very limited contexts (say, a sentence or two), the redesigned SAT will test your under- standing of relevant words and phrases, the precise meanings of which largely depend on how they’re used in the passages in which they appear. By “relevant” we mean that the words and phrases you’ll be tested on aren’t the kinds you’d see only on a test such as the SAT. Instead, they’re representa- tive of the language used in college and careers, the kind of vocabulary that you’ll use throughout your life — in high school, college, and beyond. As people advance through school, their vocabulary expands. Some of this REMEMBER expansion comes in the form of new words and phrases important to par- The redesigned SAT won’t test ticular courses. You might, for example, learn in a biology class that “gorse” you on the meaning of obscure, is a European shrub or that a “philtrum” is that shallow little valley from the seldom-used words and phrases presented with little context. bottom of your nose to the top of your upper lip. Not all of your vocabulary Rather, you