The College Board on Wednesday announced major changes to the SAT, including a substantial revision to the writing test that was added in 2005 in the last major overhaul of the admissions test.. A ...

Princeton and Stanford last week became the latest schools to drop the SAT essay requirement. The College Board made the section optional in 2016. Skeptics will applaud this essay’s demise as a ...

The prospect of churning out a coherent essay in the midst of the pressure-filled SAT has been making high-school students around the country quake. But now that the first results of the new SAT ...

To be precise, he takes the SAT, the dreaded college admissions test. Over and over. The 38-year-old has taken every SAT made available over the past decade by its owner, the nonprofit College Board.

Three months after the debut of the SAT writing test, some colleges are expressing concerns about its validity, and many have decided not to require the scores, at least for the time being.

But the analysis also said that while this may work well for modest variations in the difficulty of two SAT administrations, it may be problematic for a test like the June SAT. "The equating applied ...

B eginning in the spring of 2016, both the ACT and the SAT will no longer require a Writing sub-test – the much-dreaded essay will be purely voluntary. Despite this change in policy, there are ...

The National Council of Teachers of English said in a report issued this month that the new writing component of the SAT is not an effective way to measure students’ writing ability or potential.

SAT Writing Test Worries Disadvantaged Students When more than 300,000 teenagers take the SAT college entrance exam this weekend, they will have to write an essay for the first time in the history ...