SAT vocabulary testing is assessed in several sections of this
pre-college exam, although none of sections fall under the
actual heading of 'vocabulary'. The College Board SAT, which was
first introduced in the U.S. in 1901, has undergone name,
grading and category changes several times in the past one
hundred plus years. Prior to it currently being named the "SAT
Reasoning Test", 2005 was the year it was introduced, these
tests were called The College Board (1901), the SAT (Scholastic
Aptitude Test, 1926), and then, in 1990, the SAT was renamed to
the Scholastic Assessment Test. This last change was made
because of the uncertainty as to the SAT exam actually being
able to truly measure intelligence (aptitude). In 1930, the SAT
exam was, for the first time, split into two sections, math and
verbal. This format continued until 2004. In 2005 it was
reformatted into three sections, math, critical reading and
writing. This, incidentally, correlates to "the 3 R's" –
reading, writing and arithmetic. Each of these t