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advertisement advertisement This week the the College Board dropped big news: The SAT Subject Tests are gone. Forever! Starting immediately! Also gone is the optional SAT essay, which will disappear this June. Sayonara! advertisement The nonprofit College Board’s explanation—which is flimsy—is that the cancellations reflect that students now can demonstrate their abilities in other ways, particularly via the proliferation of Advanced Placement (AP) classes and exams. What’s actually happening here? The College Board also produces the AP exams. This is the equivalent of an auto company...

| 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. Representative image 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 f...

Synopsis 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. Representative image (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 admiss...

The nation’s leading standardized testing organization also said it was developing a “more flexible SAT” that would be streamlined and delivered digitally.

One by one, the California blows against the SAT and ACT kept coming. First UC Berkeley announced last May that it wanted to disregard SAT and ACT test scores in admissions decisions for some students in a pilot study. The same day, University of California regents unanimously voted to phase out the tests over five years. After that, Caltech nixed them for at least two years. And in September, a California state judge ordered UC to immediately suspend all use of test scores in admissions. Meanwhile, the COVID-19 pandemic leveled its own hits — upending the testing environment nationwide by...