| TNN | Updated: Jan 21, 2021, 14:03 IST
The College Board, New York-based organisation which runs the Scholastic Aptitude Test, has scrapped its subject tests and announced its decision to do away with the optional essay, thus making the main SAT 50 minutes shorter in duration.
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MUMBAI: The College Board, the New York-based organisation which runs the Scholastic Aptitude Test, has scrapped its subject tests and announced its decision to do away with the optional essay, thus making the main SAT 50 minutes shorter in duration. Candidates are admitted based on SAT scores for undergraduate admissions in the US and to 40 universities in India, private and deemed.
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The subject tests were 20 multiple-choice standardised tests offered by the Board for individual subjects, taken typically to improve a candidate’s credentials for college admissions in the US.
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(This story originally appeared in on Jan 21, 2021)MUMBAI: The College Board, the New York-based organisation which runs the Scholastic Aptitude Test, has scrapped its subject tests and announced its decision to do away with the optional essay, thus making the main SAT 50 minutes shorter in duration. Candidates are admitted based on SAT scores for undergraduate admissions in the US and to 40 universities in India, private and deemed.
The subject tests were 20 multiple-choice standardised tests offered by the Board for individual subjects, taken typically to improve a candidate’s credentials for college admissions in the US. These hour-long 800-point tests were popular among Indians who completed high school from a local state or national board. The Col