The College Board announced on Tuesday that it will discontinue the optional essay component of the SAT and that it will no longer offer subject tests in U.S. history, languages and math ...

For many years, Ivy League schools and others, including Georgetown University, recommended, encouraged or accepted subject test scores in addition to the scores they required from the main SAT or ...

As with the subject tests, the standardized tests at the end of an AP course can earn a student college credit, if the scores are high enough. The College Board also runs the AP program.

but would no longer have to face two additional SAT tests in specific subjects, such as world history, Spanish or chemistry. Subject tests, previously known as achievement tests or SAT II ...

When the College Board recently announced that it was eliminating the two optional SAT tests — the subject matter achievement tests and the writing test — it came as no surprise to many higher ...

“The SAT and the subject exams are dying products on their last breaths, and I’m sure the costs of administering them are substantial,” said Jon Boeckenstedt, the vice provost for enrollment ...

Photo: Robert F. Bukaty/AP The College Board is eliminating SAT subject tests, as the pandemic accelerates a push for changes in college admissions. The 20 subject tests have been offered for ...

It happened a day before thousands of students worldwide were set to take the June 1 SAT Biology subject test. Questions and answers to the exam were also posted on the website Reddit.com hours ...

Widespread use of Advanced Placement courses --- college-level instruction in various subjects, which are also under the College Board's control --- rendered the need for SAT subject tests ...