History of Test Prep: SAT Results 2016 — It’s Complicated

(Edweek) By Catherine Gewertz — So you’d like to find out how well the class of 2016 scored on the SAT, you say? Well, have fun with that. Normally at this time of year, we report the scores and trends for the college-admissions exam. But this is a weird year, a year so full of […]

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The Differences Between the PSAT and the SAT

The Differences Between the PSAT and the SAT By Dr. Steve Warner, Get 800 If you have been reading this blog, then you are probably familiar with what the SAT is. In case you are not, here is a link to one of my articles that gives detailed information on this: Overview of the Math Sections of the […]

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Rejected by Colleges, SAT and ACT Gain High School Acceptance

(New York Times) By Kate Zernike. The SAT and the ACT, bugaboos of generations of college applicants, were supposed to shrink in significance as more colleges and universities moved away from requiring standardized test scores for admission. Instead, the companies behind them have pushed into the nearly $700-million-a-year market for federally required tests in public […]

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Georgetown dean suggests admissions advantage for students submitting the ‘new’ SAT

(Admissions Intel) by Nancy Griesemer.   Students submitting ACT scores to Georgetown University this year could have been at an admissions disadvantage relative to those submitting results from the new or “redesigned” SAT, according to a statement made last week by Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Charles Deacon. “A lot of people are advised by their high school counselors maybe to take the […]

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Poll finds correlation between SAT scores, area of study

(The Brown Daily Herald)  By Hattie Xu — Though the SAT may be a distant memory for some college students, it continues to play a significant role in college admission as high school students aim to gain entrance to their dream colleges. According to The Herald’s fall 2016 undergraduate poll, physical science concentrators tend to […]

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