Originally Posted by indigo
Originally Posted by NotSoGifted
For a tutor's take on the new essay,take a look here:

http://thecriticalreader.com/blog/item/400-sentence-completions-out-founding-documents-in.html
This blog entry links to an online lesson in the Federalist papers, from Groningen University, Nederlands. The relationship of this blog entry to the new SAT essay is not made clear.
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Originally Posted by NotSoGifted
Indigo, the College Board has stated that the new SAT will include reading passages from "Founding Documents". She was trying to point out that those documents contain some of the "arcane vocabulary" that the new SAT claims to eliminate. If you read some of her other blog posts, there are comments on the new SAT which make her thoughts clearer.
Agreed. Readers may understand due to making connections with information from other sources, however in the blog entry the point was not made clear.