Category: SAT, ACT, & AP
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College Board Announces AP Precalculus
The College Board announced a new AP Precalculus course beginning during the 2023–2024 school year. Previously, the lowest level of math for AP credit was Calculus. This addition is part of the College Board’s strategy to boost the prestige of Advanced Placement classes and scores in the evolving test-optional world. It would also allow students…
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ACT Adds Superscore to Testing Report
Starting with April 2021 testing, the ACT will provide an automatically calculated ACT Superscore to all students who have taken the ACT more than once from September 2016 to the current day. Superscoring involves taking the best score from each subject area (English, Math, Reading, and Science) across multiple test attempts and finding a new…
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The College Board Eliminates SAT Subject Tests and Optional SAT Essay
The College Board announced on January 19, 2021, that it will discontinue administering the SAT Subject Tests and the optional essay section on the SAT, changing the standardized testing calculus for many college-bound students. The SAT Subject Tests offered students the opportunity to demonstrate knowledge in certain subjects on a standardized scale. While Subject Tests…
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Ivy Schools Announce Test Optional for Class of 2025
Penn, Cornell, Dartmouth, Columbia, and other Ivy League schools will not require SAT and ACT test scores for applicants in the 2020-2021 admissions cycle. After College Board and ACT testing agencies canceled and postponed multiple test dates amid the coronavirus outbreak, the schools joined numerous others in deciding to no longer require the SAT or…
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NMSQT / PSAT Qualifying Scores For National Merit Semifinalists
FairTest.org, the “National Center for Fair & Open Testing”, compiled qualifying scores for the Class of 2010 for each of the fifty United States and the District of Columbia. Students in Wyoming qualified with a PSAT score of 201, while 221 was the 2010 cut-off for students in New Jersey, Massachusetts, Maine, Missouri and Maryland. …
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College Board’s Score Choice Sets Off Debate and Angst — Some Schools to Require All SAT Scores
The College Board’s new policy that lets students report selected SAT scores has set off both a national debate and heightened anxiety. Previously students who took the SAT more than once had no choice but to submit scores from all test administration dates. Score Choice eliminates that requirement, except when the college or university opposes…
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SAT & ACT Prep Tools: Sharpening Your Scores
Need to improve your performance on the college entrance exams? Consider these study books and low-cost practice tools to improve your SAT and ACT scores. Princeton Review – Pocket Prep (Readers’ Favorite) Princeton Review – Cracking the SAT (2009) Barron’s SAT 2400 – Aiming for the Perfect Score Barron’s Critical Reading Workbook for the SAT…