SAT Fall Predictions

[Anonymous]

This will be one of the few things that would be reasonable to open school buildings for. Not hard to enforce masks. Not hard to spread students out 6 ft from each other. Not hard to maintain distancing. The kids are there to take a test, not interact with each other.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Because Ap tests apparently couldn’t be multiple choice because of cheating, how could sats be multiple choice?

The international SAT and ACT have been online for years. They use online proctors for exams now. Welcome to 2020.

Cite please.

https://www.startribune.com/act-to-offer-online-at-home-version-of-test-this-fall/570723992/

Some of you are just trying to bully your child's way into top schools despite their low test scores. It won't work, and test-optional does not mean test blind. If your child is wealthy or even middle class and applies without test scores, then their EC's, grades, and essays must be top 1% or they'll still get rejected.

What low test scores?! My kid hasn't been able to even take the test.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This will be one of the few things that would be reasonable to open school buildings for. Not hard to enforce masks. Not hard to spread students out 6 ft from each other. Not hard to maintain distancing. The kids are there to take a test, not interact with each other.

I agree with you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This will be one of the few things that would be reasonable to open school buildings for. Not hard to enforce masks. Not hard to spread students out 6 ft from each other. Not hard to maintain distancing. The kids are there to take a test, not interact with each other.

I agree with you.

At my kids testing site there were breaks and kids would go into the hallways and chat, eat (!), and go to the bathroom. They would have to stop that.

[Anonymous]

Schools are not opening to administer these standardized tests. They have not figured out yet how to open for the academic year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Schools are not opening to administer these standardized tests. They have not figured out yet how to open for the academic year.

YET. But they will open in most states, one way or another.

[Anonymous]

I hear the August tests are not given at school. Where would your student go? A Pearson testing site?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hear the August tests are not given at school. Where would your student go? A Pearson testing site?

No. The SAT is given at "test centers" which, in the US, are typically high schools. The student selects the test center, aka a high school, when they register on the College Board site.

Pearson is not relevant to the SAT. College Board administers the SAT.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I hear the August tests are not given at school. Where would your student go? A Pearson testing site?

No. The SAT is given at "test centers" which, in the US, are typically high schools. The student selects the test center, aka a high school, when they register on the College Board site.

Pearson is not relevant to the SAT. College Board administers the SAT.

So it just may not be at our base high school, correct?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hear the August tests are not given at school. Where would your student go? A Pearson testing site?

No. The SAT is given at "test centers" which, in the US, are typically high schools. The student selects the test center, aka a high school, when they register on the College Board site.

Pearson is not relevant to the SAT. College Board administers the SAT.

So it just may not be at our base high school, correct?

Correct. You register for the SAT yourself and choose a test center near you. Usually it will be one of your local high schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hear the August tests are not given at school. Where would your student go? A Pearson testing site?

No. The SAT is given at "test centers" which, in the US, are typically high schools. The student selects the test center, aka a high school, when they register on the College Board site.

Pearson is not relevant to the SAT. College Board administers the SAT.

So it just may not be at our base high school, correct?

Correct. You register for the SAT yourself and choose a test center near you. Usually it will be one of your local high schools.

Not if they are all still closed...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hear the August tests are not given at school. Where would your student go? A Pearson testing site?

No. The SAT is given at "test centers" which, in the US, are typically high schools. The student selects the test center, aka a high school, when they register on the College Board site.

Pearson is not relevant to the SAT. College Board administers the SAT.

So it just may not be at our base high school, correct?

Correct. You register for the SAT yourself and choose a test center near you. Usually it will be one of your local high schools.

Not if they are all still closed...

They are not all going to be closed. They will be open, in some form, for in-person classes in most states this fall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am very concerned about the college board attempting to go online for the SAT. The APs were a debacle and the format and scoring is so different than the SATs. Is it worth it to them since so many colleges are going test optional?

Which APs were a debacle? My kid said they were brilliant and really well handled.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am very concerned about the college board attempting to go online for the SAT. The APs were a debacle and the format and scoring is so different than the SATs. Is it worth it to them since so many colleges are going test optional?

Which APs were a debacle? My kid said they were brilliant and really well handled.

Do you live under a rock?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Because Ap tests apparently couldn’t be multiple choice because of cheating, how could sats be multiple choice?

The international SAT and ACT have been online for years. They use online proctors for exams now. Welcome to 2020.

Cite please.

This is true. Now solve the access problem of students whose only device is a cell phone with spotty WiFi.

If poor students in other nations can find a way, American students can as well. Personally I say online should be for students who don't have wifi issues and who don't need extra time. Those students can take it in person, there's so few of them that social distancing wouldn't be an issue. Online exams is good as the student gets their score back within a day as opposed to weeks.