Taking the SAT college entrance exam is an anxiety-producing process under any circumstances. Pre-Covid, you prepared by taking a study course (maybe) and some practice exams (hopefully). Then you sharpened a lot of pencils and put your calculator in a drawer. You (or a parent) drove you (and your pencils, no calculator) to the testing center, where you sat for three hours taking the exam. Then you waited weeks to get your results.
Starting in 2023 (for international students) and 2024 (for US students), that’s all going to change. First, ditch the pencils and bring the calculator. It is unclear to me whether you’ll have to go to a test center to take the digital SAT or whether you’ll be able to take it at home using your own computer (meaning your driver can make other plans). Finally, you (the test-taker) will be taking a two-hour exam. And the results will be available to you in a matter of days. The SAT is going online permanently. Despite shortening the exam by one hour, test developers say that students will have more time to answer each question. And the questions have been reworked to be more relevant to a cross-section of diverse students.
One big question about the change in testing protocol is whether it encourages or enables cheating. The developers of the online SAT assert the exact opposite. “With the current paper and pencil SAT, if one test form is compromised it can mean canceling administrations or canceling scores for a whole group of students,” reads the press release. “Going digital allows every student to receive a unique test form, so it will be practically impossible to share answers.”
So, are other entrance exams going online as well? During Covid, yes and no.
· The ACT (an alternative college entrance exam) is taken online, but you need to go to a test center on a date certain to take it. The next test date is April 2, 2022.
· The LSAT (entrance exam for law school) has two parts: the multiple choice portion is currently administered in an online, live remote-proctored format; the essay portion is administered online using secure proctoring software on the candidate’s own computer. The LSAT is administered in a test facility on a date certain. The next test date is March 11, 2022.
· A student can opt to take the GRE (entrance exam for business schools and some other masters level programs) online anywhere, rather than at a test center. The online test is available 24/7, and is monitored by a human proctor online through ProctorU.
· The MCAT (entrance exam for medical school) continues to be offered in-person only. The MCAT is offered at designated test centers generally twice a month.
Guess we’ll see whether the practice of offering some entrance exams online expands to continue post-Covid.
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