The College Board will no longer offer the optional essay or subject tests as part of the SAT as the standardized testing service works toward “reducing demands on students.” “As students and colleges ...

The College Board, which owns and administers the SAT, has decided to no longer offer SAT Subject Tests and the SAT Essay as of Jan. 19. This decision especially affects juniors, such as Xavier Alban, ...

The SAT will no longer require an essay section, according to an announcement yesterday from the College Board about the 88-year-old test’s redesign. The SAT will no longer require an essay section, ...

The College Board has announced it will terminate the optional essay section and subject matter tests from the SAT for students in the U.S. In a note published on its site, the standardized testing ...

The essay portion of the SAT and ACT is technically optional, but that doesn’t mean you should write it off. Many colleges require applicants to provide their essay results from one of the exams, ...

The College Board will eliminate the optional essay from the SAT and do away with subject tests amid a changing college admissions landscape, it announced Tuesday. “The pandemic has highlighted the ...

The College Board is discontinuing the SAT Essay and the Subject Tests, and it’s hard to find anyone who will miss them. Expressing any affection for these tests is like admitting that you preferred ...

When the College Board recently announced that it was eliminating the two optional SAT tests — the subject matter achievement tests and the writing test — it came as no surprise to many higher ...

In another sea change to the standardized testing industry, the College Board announced Tuesday that it planned to scrap the SAT subject tests and optional essay, saying the pandemic had accelerated ...

Universities across the country and Texas remain unsure how to use the SAT's handwritten essay, which debuted three months ago as a part of a revamped test. Several institutions, including the ...

Significant changes to the SAT mean that a score of 1,600 will no longer have the same meaning, but Tufts' director of admissions does not expect the changes will significantly affect the way the ...

The College Board announced plans to scrap the optional essay portion of the SAT college entrance exam, as well as discontinue its SAT subject tests, major changes to the ubiquitous college ...