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The SAT goes digital

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🗓️ 31 January 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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The College Board announced that, starting in 2024, the SAT — the test nearly all American high school seniors take to determine their college readiness — will be administered online. What does that mean for students, the digital divide, and the place of standardized testing in education as a whole? NPR’s higher education correspondent Elissa Nadworny explains. Read Elissa’s story: https://www.npr.org/2022/01/25/1075315337/new-digital-sat-college-admissions-test-requirement-2024-us Today’s episode was produced by Victoria Dominguez, engineered by Cristian Ayala and hosted by Adam Clark Estes. Support Recode Daily by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:41.5

your answer darkly and completely. If you change your response, erase it as

0:45.0

completely as possible. Remember that you receive points for correct answers, but

0:48.8

you don't lose points for incorrect answers. That means you should try to answer

0:52.1

every question even if you're not sure of the correct answer. If you remember

0:57.3

hearing that, it's because that's the script all Procters read before students

1:01.2

take the SAT. But soon students won't be needing a number two pencil to take

1:06.2

their SATs because this week, the College Board, owners of the SAT, ACT, and AP

1:12.4

exams, made a big announcement. Big changes are coming to the SAT. The College Board

1:17.6

announced yesterday that tests will go digital that's starting in 2024.

1:22.3

But what does that mean for students and the future of standardized testing and

1:26.6

college admissions? Here to walk us through is NPR's Higher Education Correspondent Lissa

1:32.8

Natalie. Hi, Lissa. Hey. So I'm trying to imagine the SATs without the

1:39.3

scantron. How does that even work? Well, the new test that they're designing is

1:43.5

going to be taken on a tablet or a computer. It's going to be all online. So no

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