The proposed addition of an essay to the SAT college entrance test would be modeled on the essay question in the SAT II writing test for which students get 20 minutes. The College Board provided this ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa — With just two months to go before the much-heralded new SAT is given, a team of English professors and psychometricians is poring over sample essays to determine what kind of writing ...

As many students are aware, a comprehensive redesign of the SAT was introduced in March 2016. As part of this revision, the essay section is now optional. The essay focus has also changed and become ...

Tone, or an author's attitude toward his or her subject, is an important element of communication. Scientific texts are expected to be objective, while memoirs, opinion pieces, persuasive essays and ...

The SAT is changing. Again. For the second time in just over a decade, the College Board, which administers the exam, is planning to redesign the exam. The details of the redesign aren’t public yet, ...

The most highly touted portion of the revised SAT -- the essay -- will not appear on the new PSAT because grading the writing sample would be too costly and time-consuming, according to officials at ...