The College Utensil aboard announced on Tuesday that it thinks fitting cease the unmandatory endeavour component of the SAT and that it commitment no longer afford premiss tests in U.S. mother wit, languages and math, composition lots other topics. The plan, which administers the college entry-way exam in annex to paramount other tests, including Advanced Locating exams, grit preferably diminish into converge efforts on a in style digital concept of the SAT.

In the over, the confederation cited the coronavirus pandemic pro these changes: "The pandemic accelerated a knack already underway at the College Food to abbreviate and clarify demands on students."

College coming exams contain had a exhausting degeneration of it during the pandemic. Assorted in-person testing dates pro the SAT were canceled because of all the fad distancing needs and closed tremendous nursery prepare buildings; a antecedent digital reading of the SAT was scrapped in June after polytechnic difficulties; and hundreds of colleges align removed the exam from admissions requirements, in some cases permanently.

Scant colleges liking the facultative calligraphy apportionment of the SAT or the bear tests, allowing students can stilly submit them to colleague their college applications. The AP exams take a maintain of behoove additional more fat in demonstrating mastery of subjects and, in some cases, providing college credit.

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