The SAT, accepted by almost all of the nearly 4,000 colleges and universities in the U.S., may have some growing competition.

The SAT is offered several times each year, with millions of students opting to take the test as part of the college admissions process.

The SAT is a little longer than the ACT, with the former lasting up to 134 minutes and the latter for 125. However, there are 98 questions on the SAT and 135 on the ACT, meaning ACT takers might have ...

The College Board—the standardized testing behemoth that develops and administers the SAT and other tests—has redesigned its flagship product again. Beginning in spring 2016, the writing ...

‘Test blind’, ‘test optional’ or ‘test preferred’ – what do all these categories mean? There seems to be almost as many approaches to standardised testing as there are US universities.

SAT scores at Houston's five largest school districts declined from 2018 to 2022, but 10 districts in the area saw above average composite scores for students who took the test.

I wasn’t alone. According to the College Board, the nonprofit organization that creates and administers the test, over 500,000 students took the SAT in California during the 2022-2023 school year.

This article breaks down the test format to help test takers create a study plan and share strategies to enhance their reading, writing, and math skills.

As test-optional policies shift for the most selective universities, Houston-area students take a new SAT test ...

The new test is shorter than the paper version, but ACT will report the scores to colleges without saying which test the student has taken.

A student looks at questions during a college test preparation class in 2016. The limited number of SAT testing sites in Northern California is causing some people to travel hundreds of miles to ...

Iowa's Board of Regents is not ready to include in its automatic-admission scoring system a relatively new "Classic Learning Test" gaining traction nationally and especially in conservative ...