BERKELEY, Calif.?In a move that could affect high school seniors nationwide, the head of the College Board is proposing major changes to the SAT I test.

Possible revisions include adding a writing test, dropping or reducing the analogy questions and toughening up the math section, which does not require students to have taken advanced courses such as Algebra II.

College Board trustees this week authorized College Board President Gaston Caperton and his staff to explore the changes with College Board membership, which includes schools, colleges and universities. Recommended changes would go back to trustees for a vote in June and would go into effect no earlier than 2006.

Critics have attacked the SAT as culturally or gender biased, mainly because white males tend to do better than most other groups. Test supporters contend the problem lies in an unfair public education system, not in the test.