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Most high school students take the SAT/ACT in their junior year already. Many only take the test that once. Many high schools have test-taking built into the c
by Loughla 6y ago
Most high school students take the SAT/ACT in their junior year already. Many only take the test that once.
Many high schools have test-taking built into the curriculum for the first half of that year of school.
Some states have replaced their standardized testing with the SAT/ACT.
- snarf21 6y agoWhat states are those? No schools that I know of locally have SAT prep as a school course or use the SAT as their standardized tests. It is good that some schools are already moving this way. I think it makes sense to have just one standardized test that can be used for admission and also tracking progress of schools and states.
- Loughla 6y agoThe last I knew: SAT: Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, DC, Idaho, Illinois, Maine, Michigan, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, West Virginia. ACT: Alabama, Arkansas, Hawaii, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Montana, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Utah, Wisconsin, Wyoming. Also, the implementation of SAT prep is spotty at best. As with most things, whether the schools have test prep is pretty reliant on how well funded the individual district is. At least that's my experience.
- fiftyfifty 6y agoOne of the drivers for Colorado moving to the SAT from the ACT was the amount of free SAT prep courses online. SAT partnered with Khan Academy to offer a lot of test prep and practice tests online for free.
- Loughla 6y agoIllinois was the same way. ACT charges for every damned thing, whereas SAT is free. That's one good thing, at least.
- fiftyfifty 6y agoIn Colorado all high school Juniors take the SAT in April for free. I think they have to pay to add the writing section but most universities have removed the writing requirement.