Online SAT is a terrible idea.

cinnamon1212
Thu, 16 Apr 2020 13:20:43 +0000

I cannot see rolling out a new online SAT going flawlessly, especially as the College Board is under time pressure. (That is, it doesn’t have the luxury of rolling online out on its own timetable, which might allow for beta testing, and working out the bugs that are discovered etc). That, combined with widespread “test optional for 2021s” will mean the test will have dramatically lessened importance for this year. After that, we are guessing.

My guess is it will accelerate the decline in importance of standardized tests, especially if the colleges see that they don’t actually need the tests to admit a talented class.