SAT is still hard to get in some places

ucbalumnus
Tue, 11 Jun 2024 14:36:12 +0000

bluebayou:

Our suburban HS district has never offered to host SAT/ACT tests. All of our students have had to go to adjacent cities for testing. (The argument was that not enough district teachers wanted to volunteer for the small stipend.)

Decades ago, I remember having to go to other high schools in the region (not in the same school district) to take the SAT and Achievement tests. So even then, willingness to host was nowhere close to universal.

The digital SAT adds to the host site requirements by needing reliable networking with enough capacity, which apparently the hotel failed with the volume of test takers.