(Associated Press ) By Joe Mandak — PITTSBURGH — The firm that owns the SAT college entrance exam is boosting security worldwide following test-stealing and other cheating in recent years. The College Board said it’s reducing the number of international testing dates from six per year to four for the 2017-18 and 2018-19 school years. […]
Read More »(Edweek) — ACT Inc. announced Tuesday that it will begin offering a summer test date for the ACT college admissions exam, beginning in 2018. The move matches one by ACT’s rival, the College Board, which recently introduced a 2017 summer test date for its SAT exam. ACT said it will add a seventh date to […]
Read More »(Reuters) By Renee Dudley — Last month, the governing body of the College Board — the not-for-profit that owns the SAT college-entrance exam — met at the Ritz-Carlton resort in Fort Lauderdale for its annual retreat. In 2016, the organization struggled with myriad problems: security lapses overseas, a major breach of questions from the new […]
Read More »(VDARE) By Steve Sailer. Race gaps in SAT scores highlight inequality and hinder upward mobility Richard V. Reeves and Dimitrios Halikias Wednesday, February 1, 2017. Race gaps on the SATs are especially pronounced at the tails of the distribution.among top scorers—those scoring between a 750 and 800—60 percent are Asian and 33 percent are white, […]
Read More »(Compass Prep) By Bruce Reed — Winter break is over, and it’s time to get serious about college admission testing. From here, your actions and attitudes — two variables you can control — will have the greatest impact on your testing outcomes. Every year, our most successful students are those who are organized and informed. […]
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