Baseball player Tommy Pham responds to Gavin Newsom’s comments about the SATs
Tommy Pham expressed his displeasure on Wednesday regarding Gavin Newsom’s recent remarks about his SAT scores. The former Padres player seemed to aim for relatability with his largely Black following by posting a clip of the California governor on his Instagram Story, where he mentioned his own solid SAT results. During a weekend discussion with […]
SATs are now digital and 1 hour shorter, high school students have mixed feelings
SAT season begins this weekend, and for the first time, students across the country will take the SAT using computers and tablets rather than the pencils they’ve used since the college entrance exam was introduced nearly a century ago. Although it’s unfamiliar territory for today’s digital natives, some are still beginning to embrace the idea. […]
Fully digital SAT’s new ‘adaptive’ sections dumb down college admissions test
Put down your pencil and turn it on. Students taking the SAT this week will experience some high-tech changes as the university entrance exam becomes fully digital and employs an “adaptive” testing methodology. This means that the difficulty of the questions faced by students will vary depending on their performance in previous parts of the […]