The director of admissions at the University of Michigan applauds the new writing component on the SAT. He says the short essay puts appropriate emphasis on a critical skill and will give the ...

Results of the 2025 SAT in Indiana released on Wednesday showed improvements in reading and writing scores, while showing ...

Mayoral Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani’s SAT score has been revealed after the democratic socialist was sharply criticized ...

The ACT English Test and the SAT Writing and Language Test assess test-takers in various conventions of standard English, such as punctuation, sentence structure and formation, and usage.

The ACT English and SAT writing sections are good measures of reading and rhetorical skills, even if the student does not know all the technical grammar rules (because students who read a lot will ...

The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.

For the SAT, total scores range from 400 to 1600; for the ACT, the composite score runs from 1 to 36. Those ranges do not include the optional ACT writing test, which is scored separately.

The SAT and the ACT have been an integral part of college admissions in the U.S. for decades. And while a growing number of higher education institutions are dropping their standardized testing ...

Other changes in the new SAT include making the writing test optional and structuring essays around well-known American documents, such as the Declaration of Independence and Martin Luther King Jr ...