SAT Changes in Spring of 2024

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No more paper and pencil for the SAT. No waiting weeks for your results. The SAT is finally going digital in Spring 2024. Students will be able to take the test on their iPad, computer or school-issued device. If they do not have access to one, the College Board will provide one.

The new digital test will also be cut down from three hours to two hours, and more time will be given for each question. This is made possible by cutting down the number of reading sections and only having one question per passage.

Students will now also be able to use a calculator for the entire math section.

With the new digital test, students will get their scores back in days instead of weeks.

The biggest potential issue is that the College Board is going to make the test adaptive. That means all students will get a set type of questions per subject and based on how they did in the current section, the next section will adapt to be easier or more difficult.

As an example, if you score 100% in the first section, the second section will be more difficult than if you had scored 75% in the first section.

How will this affect test scores? The truth is that we do not know. I am strongly encouraging all students to take their SAT before Spring of 2024 while the test is still the current version. Then, they can try the new one if they want to compare results.

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