However, in March 2014, the College Board announced that the SAT will be redesigned in 2016. The College Board describes this change as “expanding its reach toward low-income students and the shift from testing abstract reasoning skills to evidence-based reading, writing, and math skills acquired in high school. Some believe this is a positive change in higher education. Randolf Argüelles, on the contrary, is not one of them. As the title of his article suggests, in “New SAT Will Widen Education Gap; Everyone who takes the test is measured against the same yardstick. This is not true for high school scores,” Arguelles writes that “the new SAT will widen, not narrow, the educational gap in the United States.” He explains that with the old SAT, the important thing was to have a strong vocabulary, to be able to do inferences and apply math concepts, not whether or not you had excellent teachers over the years I agree in hopes of easing the tension by eliminating expensive test prep and focusing on concepts that should be learned throughout high school,. this may not be the case. The key phrase in the last sentence is “should be learned”. Teaching styles and learning styles vary around the world;