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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Live in LA and have kids at private school. Last year maybe 20% of kids did SAT/ACT. This year the school stopped having the kids to PSAT their Jr year. It is just going away out here.

20% of kids in CA took SAT in 2022. It was almost 70% a few years ago. [/quote]

I just checked with my brother who teaches math at a top private in the Bay area.   He said that pre-pandemic, everyone took the ACT and/or SAT multiple time,  with lots of tutoring and coaching for a year or two for many students.   He said that it is definitely less than a fourth of his students who test.  He said that many kids worry that the test prep takes away from studying.   When everyone was doing it,  that was ok. But now the kids doing testing and prep are at a disadvantage in class, and the response is not to test.   By the way,  he's a huge supporter of the change. He said he guesses that, within a year or two,  almost no one at his school will test. [/quote]

This is smart, it was all an arms race for nothing.[/quote]

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