Long gone are the days of #2 pencils and bubble sheets. But for college-bound students, standardized tests are part of the ...

The Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) is a standardized test designed to measure basic critical reading, math and writing skills. It is also one of the more popular forms of measurement at major colleges ...

Xingyuan Ding is a sophomore at the University of California, Los Angeles, one of America’s most exclusive public universities. In applying to schools, the 20-year-old from China took the SAT college ...

Getting ready to tackle the SAT and come out on top? You already know the SAT can play a big role in your college applications, and that every point can make a difference, but here’s something you ...

This fall's college freshmen were the last to take the old SAT -- and they did well on the mathematics portion, posting a 2-point gain, to an average of 520. Over the last 10 years, the average math ...

No more filling in bubbles or waiting for proctors to collect the exam sheets: The SAT is now digital, along with some other modifications. Students taking the test internationally were the first ...

Smarter Balanced is what test experts call a “criterion-referenced” test, which is simply designed to find out whether students know the material. Most school teachers write and use ...

As I write this, tens of thousands of high school students are hunched over desks, filling in little circles with number 2 pencils, laboring to complete the SAT, a test that will have an outsize ...

In May of this year, the University of California Board of Regents, which makes decisions for a system that educates 280,000 students across 10 campuses, announced it would end the use of the SAT and ...

The College Board released its 2012 SAT college-entrance test results this week, and here are some highlights: 1. Continuing an uninterrupted trend that dates back to at least 1972, high school boys ...