College Board Scraps SAT Essay, Subject Tests to ‘Reduce Demands on Students’

College Board Scraps SAT Essay, Subject Tests to ‘Reduce Demands on Students’
A student uses a Princeton Review SAT Preparation book to study for the test in Pembroke Pines, Fla., on March 6, 2014. Joe Raedle/Getty Images
Bill Pan
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The College Board announced on Tuesday that it will remove the optional essay-writing component of the SAT and will no longer offer the subject-specific exams known as SAT subject tests.

The changes to the key college admission tests were due to the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic, which “accelerated a process already underway ... to reduce and simplify demands on students,” the College Board said in a statement.
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