Questions on the SAT Writing and Language test fall into two categories: Expression of Ideas and Standard English Conventions. For many high school students, the organization of written material may ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While the essay portion of the SAT is optional, all students must complete the Writing and Language section. This part of the test ...
The prospect of churning out a coherent essay in the midst of the pressure-filled SAT has been making high-school students around the country quake. But now that the first results of the new SAT ...
Three months after the debut of the SAT writing test, some colleges are expressing concerns about its validity, and many have decided not to require the scores, at least for the time being. So far, ...
In this zippy age of fast foods, pay-at-the-pump gas, drive-in pharmacies, and, of course, e-mail, the College Board’s adoption of a 25-minute writing exercise for the revised SAT is hardly a surprise ...
A 2400 may be the new perfect SAT score, but high school students applying to Georgetown still only need to worry about 1600 of them. Charles Deacon, dean of undergraduate admissions, said the new, ...
The National Council of Teachers of English said in a report issued this month that the new writing component of the SAT is not an effective way to measure students’ writing ability or potential.
Big changes afoot for the SAT! The College Board is now dropping the writing portion from the exam, bringing the highest total score back to 1600 where it belongs. And that’s not all! According to the ...