One of the big critiques of the SAT in the past has been its &#x27;studyability&#x27;, because it tends to mean rich people can hire SAT tutors for their kids and memorize exactly which equations&#x2F;wording templates will be on the test and score higher, so this may be an effort to combat that.<p>The related NYT article today suggests that all the extra english may actually make it worse for ESL students, so it&#x27;s interesting to see if those goals will work at cross purposes.