热门电视剧“Gossip Girl”中提到SAT时，说了一番很经典的台词。“There are three things we do alone, we were born, we die, and if we are high school juniors heading for colleges, we take the SAT.” 关于这个美国高考的难度，已经有无数的专家从各个角度分析过它。不过，从分数上可以看出，中国同学与美国同学最大的差别就在critical reading部分。