#Hashtag: High school students nationwide tweet thoughts on PSAT day

The new SAT (or PSAT) is meant to be more relevant to what students do in high school classes. The first new SAT exam will be given in March. PSAT-takers, who sit for the exam on October 14 and 28, will be the first to get a taste of the test’s new emphasis on curriculum-based learning and skills, rather than arcane vocabulary, or answer choices that reward test-strategy preppers.

Students in 55 Florida school districts, including those in Lake, Orange, Osceola, Seminole and Volusia counties, will be taking the PSAT this month, according to the College Board, which makes the Saturday.

The kids, unsurprisingly, are overwhelmingly unhappy about having to to take the PSAT, and this is a generation of Internet and, more specifically, social media natives, so they know exactly how to express their frustration: memes.

The redesigned preliminary SAT that debuts today won’t feature the infamous verbal section that made student rack their brains for the definition of words like spurious, recalcitrant, panacea or malediction.

The SAT is serious about reducing that opportunity gap, and has partnered directly with Khan Academy to produce free, online test resources aimed at keeping low-income students in the loop about test changes, techniques, and application info.

Students must say yes to the Student Search Services question on the form in order to be eligible for college scholarships as well as complete the test and be working toward a high school diploma. The College Board, which orchestrates the SAT, won out against the ACT earlier this year as Michigan’s official high school assessment.