The designer of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s writing-placement examination has serious concerns about how well the SAT’s new writing section is graded, says Catherine Nichols, a ...

For two years, college applicants have had to complete a writing section on the SAT, but Brown and other universities are still reserving judgement on how much the section actually tells them, and it ...

After two years of observation and analysis, officials say they still do not know if the SAT writing section will ever become integrated into the Georgetown undergraduate admissions process. The ...

The news last week that the structure of the SAT had changed and the mandatory writing section was being eliminated was quite the topic of discussion in my house — but not at all in the way I had ...

Since the revamped SAT made its debut in 2005, admissions officials have eagerly awaited research on the test’s predictive value. This summer has brought a stack of it. In the latest, a study by ...