College Board announces major overhaul of SAT
952 views · Published 6 March 2014 · 2:02 · Indexed 25 October 2026
Channel: CBS Evening News · 2014 · News & Politics
The new SAT will return to a 1600 point scale, the essay will become optional and some vocabulary words will be replaced by words commonly used in college. The sweeping changes reflect feedback from educators that the SAT was not testing for skills that would best identify top students. Jim Axelrod reports.
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