College Board Refomr: No more subject tests, no more essay, online SAT

[Anonymous]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/sat-ending-essay-subject-tests/2021/01/19/ac82cdd8-574a-11eb-a817-e5e7f8a406d6_story.html

The College Board announced Tuesday it will discontinue those assessments. Citing the coronavirus crisis, officials said the pandemic has “accelerated a process already underway at the College Board to simplify our work and reduce demands on students.”

The testing organization, based in New York, also revealed the launch of a process to revise the main SAT, aiming to make the admission test “more flexible” and “streamlined” and enable students to take the exam digitally instead of with pencil and paper.

[Anonymous]

*Reform

Butterfingers.

[Anonymous]

Great news! My older children are complaining that their little sister won't suffer through that essay and subject tests they way they did.

[Anonymous]

Subject tests are worthless with the proliferation of AP tests.

[Anonymous]

Now they have to take a hard look at the specialized application streamlining, for a fee, through the arrangements in Watertown, MA. Rip-off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Subject tests are worthless with the proliferation of AP tests.

trading one problem for another.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Now they have to take a hard look at the specialized application streamlining, for a fee, through the arrangements in Watertown, MA. Rip-off.

Huh? Watertown, MA? What does that have to do with this?

[Anonymous]

All good changes. Thanks for posting.

[Anonymous]

Get rid of the College Board.

Colleges have figured out how to do admissions with no testing this year, they should do it forever.

I say this with 2 kids who took 10+ AP exams each, one was a National Merit semi finalist and the other a finalist. The CB is a huge money making scam!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Get rid of the College Board.

Colleges have figured out how to do admissions with no testing this year, they should do it forever.

I say this with 2 kids who took 10+ AP exams each, one was a National Merit semi finalist and the other a finalist. The CB is a huge money making scam!

Totally agree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/sat-ending-essay-subject-tests/2021/01/19/ac82cdd8-574a-11eb-a817-e5e7f8a406d6_story.html

The College Board announced Tuesday it will discontinue those assessments. Citing the coronavirus crisis, officials said the pandemic has “accelerated a process already underway at the College Board to simplify our work and reduce demands on students.”

The testing organization, based in New York, also revealed the launch of a process to revise the main SAT, aiming to make the admission test “more flexible” and “streamlined” and enable students to take the exam digitally instead of with pencil and paper.

Digital doesn't mean online. I took GRE's digitally in a monitored testing center years ago

[Anonymous]

And good students

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Get rid of the College Board.

Colleges have figured out how to do admissions with no testing this year, they should do it forever.

I say this with 2 kids who took 10+ AP exams each, one was a National Merit semi finalist and the other a finalist. The CB is a huge money making scam!

Totally agree.

What was the cost of the credits your children paid for their college classes vs the credits they earned through their AP exams? With my AP credits I was almost a sophomore

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Get rid of the College Board.

Colleges have figured out how to do admissions with no testing this year, they should do it forever.

I say this with 2 kids who took 10+ AP exams each, one was a National Merit semi finalist and the other a finalist. The CB is a huge money making scam!

Totally agree.

What was the cost of the credits your children paid for their college classes vs the credits they earned through their AP exams? With my AP credits I was almost a sophomore

Many schools no longer accept AP credits. In those schools , they are used for placement only.

In some other schools, they count only toward electives.

[Anonymous]

Looks like students can choose to take essays until June SAT test. What is the point of offering it till then? Is there still a remote advantage to students who choose to take it? My DC is taking May/June SAT and was planning on taking the essay portion. Now not sure what to do.