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  2. Why colleges are adopting standardized tests again

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    Overall, UT Austin estimates that students who chose to send in their SAT scores were 55% less likely to have a first-semester college GPA of below 2.0, or approximately a C average.

  3. SAT Subject Tests - Wikipedia

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    SAT Subject Tests were a set of multiple-choice standardized tests given by The College Board on individual topics, typically taken to improve a student's credentials for college admissions in the United States. For most of their existence, from their introduction in 1937 until 1994, the SAT Subject Tests were known as Achievement Tests, and ...

  4. College Board - Wikipedia

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    The College Board, styled as CollegeBoard, is an American not-for-profit organization that was formed in December 1899 as the College Entrance Examination Board ( CEEB) to expand access to higher education. While the College Board is not an association of colleges, it runs a membership association of institutions, including over 6,000 schools ...

  5. History of the SAT - Wikipedia

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    The SAT is a standardized test commonly used for the purpose of admission to colleges and universities in the United States. The test, owned by the College Board and originally developed by Carl Brigham, was first administered on June 23, 1926, to about 8,000 students. The test was introduced as a supplement to the College Board essay exams ...

  6. Many colleges have ditched SAT requirements — is it time to ...

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    More than 80% of four-year colleges in the U.S. will not require students to submit SAT or ACT scores this fall. Most of those schools are test-optional. A small number, though, have gone “test ...

  7. Harvard reinstates mandatory SAT scores for applicants - AOL

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    April 11, 2024 at 1:22 PM. Harvard announced Thursday it will reinstate the requirement for applicants to submit SAT or ACT scores, the latest in a string of schools to return to making the scores ...

  8. SAT - Wikipedia

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    However, they cautioned against the use of SAT verbal scores to track the decline for while the College Board reported that SAT verbal scores had been decreasing, these scores were an imperfect measure of the vocabulary level of the nation as a whole because the test-taking demographic has changed and because more students took the SAT in the ...

  9. UT Austin will again require SAT or ACT test scores for ... - AOL

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    The median SAT score from the fall 2024 applicant pool was 1420. The SAT's score ranges from 400 to 1,600. Of the students who enrolled in 2023, the university said those who submitted their test ...