Why are they making the SAT easier?

I completely agree. Yes, they are lowering expectations, and yes, our kids will meet these expectations by dumbing down. Just because a word doesn't show up in verbal conversation doesn't make that word useless. And your reading comprehension is a very good way to determine how prepared you are for college. Anyone thinks we are not making the SATs easier; Your IQ needs to be checked. No wonder American highschoolers test so poorly compared to other countries.

What is this Justin Beiber reference? Did I miss something here?

It's called the dumbing down of America .. which has been happening for decades and is showing it's sad results in many areas of our EverythinggoesSociety .

I feel you. Your vocab is tested in unnatural ways (how many times are you going to face pre-constructed sentences with blanks in them?)

It might seem random for the SAT to test vocab; sure, words are important, but is measuring how many pretentious terms you know REALLY the best way to measure how prepared you are for college?

The brutal answer, Mr./Mrs. Cynic, is yes. The people who make the SAT love to undertake research projects (part of where your $41.50 test fee is going), and have studied correlations between SATs and college performances. On the CR section, the strongest predictor of good college grades is vocabulary.It's flat-out the best way to gauge how much you've read. And students who read a lot tend to be (big surprise) more college-prepared that those who don't or read as much.

Also, it's been proven that people with big boy vocabulary tend to earn more money than people with baby vocabulary.

They're not making it "easier," they're changing it so that the material tested will be something actually useful and relate to things you'd need.

"Yeah try and convince yourself you're not jelly. "

You sound like an idiot. Anonymous doesn't have to try and convince himself of anything, he sounds like he's not jealous, which means he's not jealous.

No one in their right mind wants to be (and thus are not jealous) of that one big pile of sh-t (thank you Jeff Goldblum) known as Justin Bieber . . .