I think it is interesting that people want to change the way the SAT's are layed out, but i dont agree with the grading of the essays. I think that it is unfair to tell somebody that in order for them to get a good grade on an essay it needs to be "long winded and predicatable". Alot of the time when kids are in an english class the teacher will say "quality is better than quanity" and I fully belive that with writing it is better to be unique than to do someting that everydody else does.
Thinking back when I took the ACT junior year, on the eassay portion of the test when they said it had to be "enough supporting essays" i felt like my writng watered down my arguement. If I could have just written striaght to the point, but still written enough, my writing would have been much more sophisticated. Also, with standarized testing I think students feel pressure to write more than what their neighbor is writing, but the truth is, what one person writes in a paragraph, another can write even better in a sentence. So overall their focus on length is unfair, and they should be more focused on the content.