I've spent several weeks practicing and thinking about the Scholastic Aptitude Test. It's not what you remember. The analogies are gone. The quantitative comparisons are gone. The SAT has many, many pages of sentence-correction work. The math section will likely ask you about the polynomial remainder theorem. For reading comprehension, you might encounter Saki or Virginia Woolf or FDR. (And the writing will be really excellent!) I think the SAT is generally very well-produced; I think the Kaplan fake versions of the SAT are less impressive. (One recent Kaplan faux-test sentence-fixing section asked the students to choose between "making saccharine commercially" and "producing saccharine commercially." I'd argue that either choice is fine--and, even if you believe there is a real distinction here, I'd challenge you to claim that the distinction is worthy of an SAT question. This makes my head spin.) I think the SAT is a source of terror for some peo...