Gov. Gavin Newsom refused to take a position on a raging debate over standardized testing in University of California admissions — dismissing as “anecdotes” the alarming reports from college ...

The college entrance exam that Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth hailed as the nation's new "gold standard," promising to open doors at some of America's most elite institutions, is instead seeing its ...

The University of California Regents won't decide whether to bring back standardized tests for admissions until at least next year. The debate over whether the UC system should reverse its 2020 ...

What subjects are on the SAT? This is a common question for students gearing up for college. The mean SAT score among test takers fell from 1028 for the Class of 2023 to 1024 for the Class of 2024. It ...

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On June 23, 1926, about 8,000 high school students across the United States took the first Scholastic Aptitude Test, known today as the SAT. That test looked very different than the one that about 2 ...

Zvezdelina Stankova has taught mathematics at UC Berkeley for nearly three decades. But in 2023, while teaching introductory calculus for the first time since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic ...

Colleges are rethinking test-optional admissions. After a pandemic-era push to stop requiring standardized tests such as the SAT and ACT, some schools are bringing them back. Others are under pressure ...

High school students take AP® exams and IB exams to earn college credit and demonstrate success at college-level coursework. U.S. News calculated a College Readiness Index based on AP/IB exam ...