The proposed addition of an essay to the SAT college entrance test would be modeled on the essay question in the SAT II writing test for which students get 20 minutes. The College Board provided this ...

Those of us who took the SAT remember what we got on that test, even if we took it long ago. On the other hand, few of us recall our high-school GPA, and the permanent record that was supposed to ...

The most highly touted portion of the revised SAT -- the essay -- will not appear on the new PSAT because grading the writing sample would be too costly and time-consuming, according to officials at ...

Changes announced Wednesday to the SAT college entrance exam don’t necessarily mean all test takers will avoid writing essays. The College Board announced that takers will no longer be required to ...

With just two months to go before the much-heralded new SAT is given, a team of English professors and psychometricians is poring over sample essays to determine what kind of writing should be ...

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 ...

Do you really need to know what you’re talking about when you answer the essay question on the SAT? Apparently not. Experts say, and the makers of the test pretty much acknowledge, that style — or ...

Enduring three hours of the SAT is a coming-of-age tradition about as pleasant as being stuck in a car without air conditioning on a cross-country family trip. It’s about to get worse. Besides having ...