WASHINGTON — Essay optional. No penalties for wrong answers. The SAT college entrance exam is undergoing sweeping revisions. Changes in the annual test that millions of students take will also do away ...

As high school students anticipate a possible new writing section on the SAT, college students taking the GRE will soon face a similar change. The Graduate Record Examination General Test currently ...

Like any pair of longtime competitors, the sponsors of the nation’s two major college-entrance exams, the SAT and ACT, regularly scrutinize each other’s work, and adjust their own accordingly. In its ...

Every year more than a million students pay an extra fee to do the optional essay section of the SAT and ACT, though according to a Princeton Review analysis only 27 colleges and universities in the ...

When the College Board announced nine years ago that it was requiring test-takers to write a 25-minute essay on the SAT, the decision was hailed by some and denounced by others. As part of its latest ...

ETHN 110. Exam 1: ESSAY QUESTION (40 points). ANSWER ALL ESSAY QUESTIONS. “HOME” AND ASIAN AMERICAN IDENTITY (Andrew X. Pham). (A) Explain how the Vietnam War affected Andrew X. Pham’s life and his ...

It’s not a surprise that students are afraid of the exam essay: if they don’t pass it, then they can forget about a good final grade this year. However, everything is not as scary as it seems, and we ...

The SAT essay exam is increasingly rejected by college admissions officers, but the University of California continues to use it. Here, a sign asks for quiet during a college test preparation class in ...