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College Board announced that it is discontinuing SAT Subect Tests after June 2021. It is also discontinuing SAT Essay after June 2021. After June, the Essay will only be given in states where it’s required for SAT School Day administrations for accountability purposes. It is also changing the SAT from paper format to digital, online format.

Get ready for a whole new SAT! 

Once a beautiful princess sat by an ornate pool in her palace grounds. As she peered down, admiring her beautiful reflection in the surface of the clear pool, her priceless crown suddenly slipped from her head and into the waters with a splash.

She screamed for her attendants to retrieve her precious crown and they leapt into the waters, frantically searching, scrabbling around, a flurry of activity. But all this effort merely brought up mud and debris from the bottom of the pool, making it even harder to find the missing crown.

Eventually, a sage arrived on the scene. He began to tell such a riveting tale of times gone past that, despite themselves, all the princess’s aides stopped searching and relaxed. Even the princess momentarily forgot about the missing crown and listened to the man’s sweet words. By the time he’d finished telling his tale, not only had everyone calmed down, but the mud from the pool had settled and the waters were again clear.

At that point, the sage reached down into the water and retrieved the princess’s crown, which could now clearly be seen.

Test nerves ‘muddy the water’ of the mind just when it needs clarity.

The more emotional we become, the more ‘stupid’ we become. Fear stops us thinking because it wants us to move–to run or to fight. On the contrary, too much thinking in a real emergency might slow down action too! The trouble is that sitting and taking a test isn’t actually a life or death situation.

Vividly imagining yourself doing something calmly and confidently before you do it enormously increases the likelihood of you being calm and confident in the situation when it happens for real.

First, grade the anxiety; perhaps 10 being the most nervous and 1 being the most relaxed. You really don’t want to be at 1 during your test.

Ask yourself: What number of nervousness am I on at the moment?

It might be, say, a 7 — a bit too high for a test. Slow your breathing and focus on breathing out a little longer than you breathe in, you’ll notice your body starting to relax; The body always relaxes when you extend your out-breath.

Now ‘watch’ in your mind as that 7 (or whatever the starting number) starts to drift down to a 6, then a 5, then a 4, and down to a 3, then 2.

Proper preparation is key to calming test nerves, because leaving it until the day of the test is too late.

As someone who stresses constantly about exams and went through the system completely, I personally know that there are many reasons why we (children and adults) fear exams. In today’s society, you are valued off your test results, they are all that seem to matter if you want to have a good life, a good job, etc. There is always this constant fear that if you mess up this one exam, it will impact your future and that is it for you, you have ruined it for yourself. Also, the unknown is something that constantly scares you; exams are something that you can have little control over, you only have a brief idea of what to expect. Pressure is definitely another main factor, you’re scared you’re not going to do well as usual, or you are desperate to get better. If not then you feel like not only you have let yourself down, but you have disappointed everyone around you! Exams are taken extremely seriously in all circles, and as a result have a serious impact.

 ACT Inc. announced on October 8, 2019 that starting from September 2020 test date there will be changes to the ACT test. Students can do Section Retesting instead of retaking the whole test again with all the five sections. Section Retesting allows students to take one or more of the sections of the test in each sitting. Second, students will be given the option for Superscoring the test score. Superscoring is rescoring of the composite score by taking the maximum score among the individual section scores across multiple ACT tests and Section Retests that the student took. Finally, ACT test will be offered in online digital format also, inaddition to the paper format. Online test results will be released within two business days after the testing date. 

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For non-academic reasons, College Board keeps changing SAT format, test topics and frequency of offerings every few years. Keeping with that spirit, they announced a new version of SAT from March 2016.

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