My son Alexei just graduated from high school, ending an intense and important senior year, in which he was judged worthy of acceptance by some colleges and rejected by others. As it turns out, the ...

This week, the College Board announced changes to the way it administers its standardized tests to university applicants in the United States. The board is dropping the optional essay component of the ...

The essay portion of the SAT and ACT is technically optional, but that doesn’t mean you should write it off. Many colleges require applicants to provide their essay results from one of the exams, ...

The College Board, which owns and administers the SAT, has decided to no longer offer SAT Subject Tests and the SAT Essay as of Jan. 19. This decision especially affects juniors, such as Xavier Alban, ...

The most highly touted portion of the revised SAT -- the essay -- will not appear on the new PSAT because grading the writing sample would be too costly and time-consuming, according to officials at ...

According to Jeff Rubenstein of Princeton Review, here's how the real SAT essay will be graded: Two graders will read the essay and give it a score from 1 to 6. The two scores will be added together.