And the writing test will become optional with a separate score, meaning the return of the 1,600-point scale.

SAT test day isn't fun. But colleges can evaluate students and applications for admissions more fairly if we take them. The push to scrap standardized tests is misguided.

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 ...

While colleges have used the SAT for admissions for decades, many have gone "test-optional" in recent years.

How to Perform Well on SAT, ACT Test Day Get good rest, prioritize questions that have answers you know and take advantage of breaks, experts say.

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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 ...

A page from the College Board's first SAT practice test, from 1926, assumes the student knows the meaning of the words "ribald," "empirical" and "torpid," among others.

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

A new survey shows that more than 80% of U.S. bachelor-degree granting institutions will not require applicants seeking fall 2023 admission to submit either ACT or SAT standardized exam scores.

The SAT goes fully digital this week with its new "adaptive" testing method — meaning the difficulty of questions students face will depend on how they performed in prior parts of the assessment.