Skip to: Content
Skip to: Site Navigation
Skip to: Search
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2009
| Subscribe to Newser's RSS feeds RSS | Follow Newser on Twitter Twitter

NEWS ABOUT: ACT exam

ACT exam stories: 3 news summaries

SAT Prep Classes Exaggerate Improvement, Study Finds

Use of own diagnostic tests clouds real results

May 20, 09 10:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - Many test-prep companies make impressive-sounding guarantees about students’ SAT performance, but an independent study finds that the courses offer little real improvement. Part of the problem may be tutors’ use of too-hard mock tests to judge students’ baseline performance, producing a false inflation that’s used to justify thousands of... More »

MORE ABOUT:
SAT • Princeton Review • college applications • ACT exam • College Board • SAT prep • Kaplan

 Throw Out SAT, 
 Say College Deans 

Panel recommends move away from standardized testing

Sep 22, 08 8:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - Colleges should make admissions decisions without requiring the SAT or ACT, says a group of deans led by Harvard's admissions chief in a yearlong study that concluded standardized tests distort students' high school experiences, exacerbate class disparities, and enrich only the billion-dollar test prep industry. Instead, say the admissions officers,... More »

MORE ABOUT:
high school • SAT • college admissions • college • universities • admissions officers • ACT exam • standardized testing

 SAT, ACT Cheats Get Off Easy 

Agencies under fire for canceling scores without exposing, punishing students

Jul 15, 08 10:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - College hopefuls caught cheating on their ACT or SAT exams are likely to face few consequences, the Los Angeles Times reports, due to policies under which the administering agencies simply cancel suspicious scores on the college-admission exams. High schools and colleges are kept in the dark about potential wrongdoing, and... More »

MORE ABOUT:
SAT • college admissions • test score • exam • cheating • college applications • ACT exam

3 Stories


from our news partners