KENTUCKY (FOX 56) — For nearly 20 years, Kentucky public school juniors have been required to take the ACT—a standardized test tied to college admissions. But this school year, the Kentucky Department of Education said students will take the SAT instead.

The change has thrown many teachers and students for a loop and has left them wondering how to prepare.

The Scholastic Aptitude Test, or SAT, might be unfamiliar to many Kentucky students, but Dr. Shaan Patel—who earned a perfect SAT score—told FOX 56 the test may be a positive change.

"It's a shorter exam, you have more time per question, you have less than 100 questions on the entire exam, there's no more obscure vocabulary, the reading passages are shorter,” said Patel.

He noted that several universities across the nation are reinst

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