Apart from occasional edits to bring them up to date, the proportion of situations which require their use is also slowly coming down. For example, after the efforts of the women's movement, a United States court handed down a decision in 1989 stating that using only SAT scores and grades to allocate scholarship money was discriminatory to women.
除了不時修訂以反映現實之外，它們使用的比重也逐漸降低，譬如，在女權運動者的努力下，美國法庭於一九八九年判決：僅依 SAT 成績來頒發獎學金是歧視女性。