Michigan just recently changed their college entrance exam from ACT to SAT after a competitive bidding process. The College Board, which oversees the SAT, received a three-year contract with the state of Michigan worth about $17.1 million. Juniors in the Spring of 2016 will be the first to take the new assessment. Michigan, mandated by law, will still be providing this test for free. Questions are being raised across the state that access to colleges, especially top universities, will become more difficult with the new assessment. The universities disagree with this statement. Majority of the universities and colleges have already been examining the SAT scores of students so this change is quite minor for them.
In basic understanding of a college entrance exam, not much will be changing. For mathematics, the ACT focused more on content where the SAT focused more on critical thinking and problem solving. The SAT has also been known more for it focus on vocabulary. According to Diffen: http://www.diffen.com/difference/ACT_vs_SAT
Recently, the College Board announced that they will be rolling out a redesign of the the test. This is a response to criticism that the current test is biased and does not provide an accurate portrayal of students' abilities. The College Board was quoted saying that the new test "...will ask students to apply a deep understanding of the few things shown by current research to matter most for college readiness and success." According to Diffen: http://www.diffen.com/difference/ACT_vs_SAT Some major changes include the following:
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