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The College Board and ACT, Inc., conducted a joint study of students who took both the SAT and the ACT between September 2004 (for the ACT) or March 2005 (for the SAT) and June 2006. Tables were provided to concord scores for students taking the SAT after January 2005 and before March 2016.
Unlike the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) that the College Board offers, which are intended to measure general aptitude for academic studies, the Achievement Tests are intended to measure the level of knowledge and understanding in a variety of specific subjects. Like the SAT, the scores for an Achievement Test range from 200 (lowest) to 800 ...
In October 2002, the College Board dropped the Score Choice option for SAT-II exams, matching the score policy for the traditional SAT tests that required students to release all scores to colleges. [55] The College Board said that, under the old score policy, many students who waited to release scores would forget to do so and miss admissions ...
The end of an era was marked by the Dec. 2 SAT when students arrived, for the last time, with sharpened No. 2 pencils. For nearly 100 years, since June 23, 1926, college-bound students engaged in ...
Here's what to expect from the long-awaited change to the college admissions exam. For starters, it's shorter. And yes, still bring a pencil.
A new investigation shows that the exam has been recycled at least five times in the past three years -- and it may give some students an unfair advantage.
In March 2020, College Board announced the cancellation of several test dates during the spring of 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and as a result many colleges went test optional or test blind admissions. [26] On January 25, 2022, College Board announced that the SAT will be delivered digitally in an attempt to change the format of test itself.
Average scores are shown on the original (1941/1942) SAT scale through senior class year 1995. Average scores from 1967 to the present are also shown on the current SAT scale, as follows. Data for 1967 to 1986 were converted to the re-centered scale by using a formula applied to the original mean and standard deviation.