How Could SAT's Possibly Still Happen? Why does CB refuse to acknowledge reality?

havenoidea
Fri, 22 May 2020 16:18:41 +0000

ACT must be relying on individual schools to decide whether to hold the test. Our school sent out an email saying that they aren’t holding the June test but will be set up properly, with safety precautions, for the July test and will hold it.

I wonder why SAT can’t add summer test dates. With so many kids not having taken the test even once, and some kids wanting to take subject tests, it would seem very difficult to get all the kids tested, especially in time for those applying ED and EA.

Given the problems with the online AP tests, I’d be worried about a long online standardized test. What if your WiFi glitches? What if the submission won’t upload? We are just one family, and it happened on one of our kids’ tests. She has to retake it, but that’s only 45 min. I couldn’t even imagine the distress that would cause a kid if it were the full SAT or ACT.

And yes, lots of schools are TO, but for certain kids, that high score is part of their full picture.