For the first time since the 1970’s, College Board will be offering a summer administration of the SAT. The inaugural summer exam is scheduled for August 26, 2017 and will…
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The What's a Good Subject Test Score post deals with the relationship between old SAT scores and Subject Test scores. Most students now take the new PSAT, new SAT, or…
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While this is not the first time the SAT has changed, there is something unprecedented about this particular overhaul: the motive behind it. As more is asked of the SAT,…
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Promises and Problems with the New PSAT The need to roll out the PSAT while still constructing the SAT puts College Board test developers and executives in a Catch-22. On the…
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Part 1: Percentile Inflation A series of changes has greatly increased the percentile scores that students and educators are seeing on PSAT score reports. College Board has not been transparent about all of…
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Part 2 : Score Discrepancies An historically narrow gap between sophomore and junior performance does not seem credible and leads to questions about how scoring, scaling, and weighting were performed and…
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Part 3: Lowered Benchmark The dramatic lowering of the college and career readiness benchmark for the "verbal" portion of the PSAT and SAT calls for a deeper examination and reveals potential structural problems with…
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Nearly three years ago, the College Board announced plans for a major redesign of the SAT. In less than three months, the new SAT will finally make its debut. Tickets…
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This blog post was contributed by Debbie Friedman, one of Compass' most talented and experienced tutors. Debbie graduated from Brown University and currently works as both a tutor and a…
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In February 2013, not many 8th graders would have been paying attention to the initial College Board announcements about overhauls of the PSAT and SAT. Those 8th graders are now juniors, and the…
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