Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. As the CEO of Command Education, I write about emotionally intelligent leadership and education. In December 2023, the College ...

Generations of American teens have taken the SAT, a blood-pressure-raising multi-hour exam they are told could make or break their academic futures. The longest-enduring standardized college ...

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The number of students taking the SAT college admissions test at least once is growing back to pre-pandemic figures—even as some colleges and universities made the test optional at the onset of the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Natalie Wexler is an education writer focusing on literacy. The SAT and ACT have long been attacked as biased and open to ...

Colleges have fled standardized tests, on the theory that they hurt diversity. That’s not what the research shows. Credit...Photo Illustration by Alex Merto Supported by By David Leonhardt David ...

Although the essay portion of the SAT became optional in 2016, many students still chose to write it to demonstrate strong or improved writing skills to prospective colleges. In June 2021, the College ...

Before the SAT – a major milestone in the college application process – many students will take another standardized test: the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, or PSAT/NMSQT ...

Has anyone there ever heard the myth that you get 200 points on the SAT just for spelling your name correctly? I remember someone in high school trying to claim that the reason they only got a 900 on ...

As a student at Kaiser High School in Fontana two years ago, Melissa Morfin-Acevedo bombed her SAT test, scoring in the bottom third percentile nationally. The daughter of an immigrant single mother ...

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Last year, just about two million students took one of the most important tests of their lives. The Scholarship Aptitude Test (known by nearly everyone as simply the SAT) first emerged 93 years ago ...