As someone who’s taken the SAT twice in recent months (and half a dozen more as practice), this is simply false.
The SAT’s questions for the essays are constructed to be as vague as possible, requiring no knowledge of history, current events, or literature; usually they are things like “Do we value only what we struggle for? ” or “Is it always essential to tell the truth, or are there circumstances in which it is better to lie? ” or “What gives us more pleasure and satisfaction: the pursuit of our desires or the attainment of them? ”. It’s possible that a question in the reading section would have a passage from a literary critic espousing the greatness of Steinbeck, followed by a question along the lines of “Why does the author of Passage A argue that Steinbeck was the conscience of America?”, but I’ve never seen a question even this political.
As someone who’s taken the SAT twice in recent months (and half a dozen more as practice), this is simply false.
The SAT’s questions for the essays are constructed to be as vague as possible, requiring no knowledge of history, current events, or literature; usually they are things like “Do we value only what we struggle for? ” or “Is it always essential to tell the truth, or are there circumstances in which it is better to lie? ” or “What gives us more pleasure and satisfaction: the pursuit of our desires or the attainment of them? ”. It’s possible that a question in the reading section would have a passage from a literary critic espousing the greatness of Steinbeck, followed by a question along the lines of “Why does the author of Passage A argue that Steinbeck was the conscience of America?”, but I’ve never seen a question even this political.