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Generations of American teens have taken the SAT, a blood-pressure-raising multi-hour exam they are told could make or break their academic futures. The longest-enduring standardized college ...

The SAT and ACT have long been attacked as biased and open to manipulation, and the pandemic has helped weaken their influence. But if we understand what the tests measure, they have some value.

The number of students taking the SAT college admissions test at least once is growing back to pre-pandemic figures—even as some colleges and universities made the test optional at the onset of the ...

No more filling in bubbles or waiting for proctors to collect the exam sheets: The SAT is now digital, along with some other modifications. Students taking the test internationally were the first ...

Last week, the College Board announced a long-overdue innovation: It will try to put students’ SAT scores in context by providing colleges with an adversity measure that summarizes—on a scale of one ...

Colleges have fled standardized tests, on the theory that they hurt diversity. That’s not what the research shows. Credit...Photo Illustration by Alex Merto Supported by By David Leonhardt David ...

The SAT, a college admissions exam that for nearly a century was completed using paper and pencil, is now officially all-digital. This week, students in the U.S. will begin taking the new SAT on their ...

Although the essay portion of the SAT became optional in 2016, many students still chose to write it to demonstrate strong or improved writing skills to prospective colleges. In June 2021, the College ...

As a student at Kaiser High School in Fontana two years ago, Melissa Morfin-Acevedo bombed her SAT test, scoring in the bottom third percentile nationally. The daughter of an immigrant single mother ...

Has anyone there ever heard the myth that you get 200 points on the SAT just for spelling your name correctly? I remember someone in high school trying to claim that the reason they only got a 900 on ...

The SAT, a college admissions exam long associated with paper and pencil, will soon go all-digital. Starting in 2023 for international students and in 2024 in the U.S., the new digital SAT will shrink ...