The College Board announced plans to scrap the optional essay portion of the SAT college entrance exam, as well as discontinue its SAT subject tests, major changes to the ubiquitous college ...

College Board said it would offer a digital version of the SAT last year but abandoned that plan without explanation. The College Board announced today that it is getting rid of the optional SAT essay ...

The SAT college admission test will no longer require a timed essay, will dwell less on fancy vocabulary and will return to the familiar 1600-point scoring scale in a major overhaul intended to open ...

The SAT essay exam is increasingly rejected by college admissions officers, but the University of California continues to use it. Here, a sign asks for quiet during a college test preparation class in ...

The College Board’s decision to make the essay portion of its influential SAT exam optional is setting off a national debate among colleges and universities about whether to require applicants to take ...

High school students across the country, rejoice: the dreaded third section of the SAT, the essay portion, will soon cease to be a required segment of the nearly four-hour-long exam. This change, ...

Student says longer essays score better. Nov. 5, 2010 — -- Millions of high school students across the country will take the SATs tomorrow. Ever since 2005, the SAT has included an essay section ...

Harvard University has announced that it will no longer require applicants to submit the essay portion of either the SAT or the ACT, even though they will still be required to submit scores for the ...

Students to find out how they did on the SAT's first reality TV essay question. March 31, 2011— -- Brianna Letourneau was surprised when she first opened her SAT earlier this month. Letourneau, a ...