It’s been an eventful spring. My Compass colleagues and I have given dozens of webinars to audiences around the country, as thirst for strategic guidance on testing is greater than…
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To view this information in a presentation format, watch our Accommodations Webinar. College Board and ACT offer a variety of testing accommodations for students with disabilities. Two of the most...
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The 2020 AP Exams were administered in an abridged, online, remote format. The change prompted questions about format, scoring, accommodations, exam security, the digital divide, and others, which we tracked...
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BREAKING NEWS: College Board cancels June testing, adds September 26th SAT-only date. College admission and testing is in a state of upheaval, like so much else in our lives. What...
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As promised, the College Board released additional information today (April 3, 2020) about the AP Exams this year. Here are some key takeaways for students. For a more in-depth synthesis…
PART I: Unexpected, Unexplained Score Drops Critics of standardized tests correctly assert that even the best built tests are imperfect and incomplete. However, high stakes tests like the SAT and...
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Below are the Semifinalist cutoffs for the 13 years for the class of 2008 to the class of 2020. Because of the change in PSAT scoring with the class of…
Winter break is the time to get serious about college admission testing. From here, your actions and attitudes—two variables you can control—will have the greatest impact on your testing outcomes....
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Scheduling is usually the largest factor students consider when choosing the right test date. For example, if you're in the school play that has 2 hour rehearsals 5 days a...
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ACT has a reputation for stodginess. Its eponymous test hasn’t had any substantial changes since 1989. Today, ACT just blew up that reputation. It announced superscore reporting, online testing on...
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