The Post’s special section on the Jouney to College. It’s a jungle out there — in the evolving landscape of college admissions, that is. With trends shaping standardized testing requirements, ...

The SAT’s essay-writing component, which was introduced in 2005, has been accused of many sins. Critics have said that the new test rewards students for having good handwriting, for filling a page ...

Those of us who took the SAT remember what we got on that test, even if we took it long ago. On the other hand, few of us recall our high-school GPA, and the permanent record that was supposed to ...

The SAT college admission test will no longer require a timed essay, will dwell less on fancy vocabulary and will return to the familiar 1600-point scoring scale in a major overhaul intended to open ...

On Saturday, hundreds of thousands of high-school students took the SAT. The first section in the more than three-hour test is writing, in which students pen an essay on a pseudo-profound question ...

Two major stress points in the grueling rituals of college admission testing are vanishing this year: the optional essay-writing section of the SAT and the supplementary exams in various fields known ...

The College Board is scrapping its SAT subject tests and the SAT's optional essay, among other new pandemic-induced changes. COVID-19 has cost the College Board both opportunities to hold its SAT ...

In March, the College Board unveiled plans for an overhaul of the SAT, revamping the much-derided essay, promising the end to "SAT words" that are rarely used, and promising a test more focused on ...

Both the ACT and SAT essays will be changing within the next 14 months. The ACT will implement its new essay format with the Sept. 12, 2015 test date, and the SAT will likely premier its new optional ...

In another sea change to the standardized testing industry, the College Board announced Tuesday that it planned to scrap the SAT subject tests and optional essay, saying the pandemic had accelerated ...