advertisement advertisement advertisement This week the the College Board dropped big news: The SAT Subject Tests are gone. Forever! Starting immediately! Also gone is the optional SAT essay, which will disappear this June. Sayonara! advertisement The nonprofit College Board’s explanation—which is flimsy—is that the cancellations reflect that students now can demonstrate their abilities in other ways, particularly via the proliferation of Advanced Placement (AP) classes and exams. What’s actually happening here? The College Board also produces the AP exams. This is the equivalent of an auto company discontinuing a struggling model, and encouraging customers toward its sister model. Subject Test registrations were down 8% from 2016-2019, and plummeted amidst the pandemic. The Board did not note this. Is this a surprise? Many colleges had long ago let students decide whether to take Subject Tests, but the test results were still frequently used for freshman course placement, or to fulfill language requirements. For students, the Subject Test cancellation is immediate and sudden: Refunds are available for kids already registered for winter and spring tests. There were 20 subject tests in science, history, math, English, science, and languages. Who wins? Kids with access to AP classes, for whom SAT Subject Tests doubled… Read full this story
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