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Frequently Asked Questions for the Digital SAT Suite
We will keep you up to date on the switch to the digital SAT Suite of Assessments through 2023.
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We are completely moving to digital, thus once we start giving the SAT Suite online, we won’t be offering a paper and pencil version of the exams. Nevertheless, we’ll keep helping students who need a paper-and-pencil test because of accommodations.
This implies that: • All students taking the SAT at worldwide testing sites will begin taking the digital test in March 2023; • All students taking PSAT-related assessments will begin taking the digital test in Fall 2023. • Beginning in spring 2024, all students will take the entire SAT Suite of Assessments digitally, with the exception of the SAT School Day and SAT Weekend administrations in the United States.
Beginning in the fall of 2022, students will be able to sign up for the first digital SAT administrations at international testing facilities. Later this year, we’ll provide further details regarding registration and administration dates.
In the spring of 2023, we’ll be giving the digital SAT for the first time in locations overseas. In the spring of 2024, it will then start to be made available in the US. The SAT is often taken for the first time by students in the spring of their junior year. Therefore, the class of 2024 will be the first to take the digital SAT for students testing globally. The 2025 high school graduating class will be the first in the US to take the SAT in its digital format.
Beginning in the fall of 2023, all students worldwide will take the digital PSAT 8/9 and PSAT/NMSQT. Starting in the spring of 2024, they will start taking the PSAT 10.
On a laptop or tablet, students will take the SAT using a specially created digital exam application that they will download ahead of time.
Students will use Khan Academy’s Official SAT Practice to prepare for the digital SAT. Free practice is available to students wherever and at any time. In the fall of 2022, digital SAT study materials will be added to Official SAT Practice. At that time, the exam application will also include full-length practice exams. Students will be able to get a full feel for the digital SAT while studying with these full-length, adaptive practice tests. This summer, we’ll provide more details about practice resources.
Currently, scores for entire groups of students may be canceled if one test form is corrupted. By switching to digital testing, we can give each kid their own test form, making answer-sharing virtually impossible.
Because moving digital will enable us to offer two extra international SAT administrations starting when we open in 2023, we are introducing the digital SAT worldwide first. It is crucial to provide access for students around the world by increasing the number of administrations from five to seven to correspond with the domestic calendar.
In order to give students who will be taking the SAT as juniors in the spring of 2024 the chance to become accustomed to the digital testing environment before taking the digital SAT, the PSAT/NMSQT and PSAT 8/9 will be offered digitally in the autumn of 2023. Find out more about the launch date of the digital SAT here.
In the spring of 2024, the SAT School Day will be given digitally for the first time. 60% of students who take the SAT today do so for free during the school day at their institution. Independent studies demonstrate that universal testing during the school day increases the percentage of low-income and rural kids who enroll in college.
For SAT School Day, some schools already use digital testing to deliver the most recent SAT test. In the spring of 2024, all schools will begin offering the new digital SAT.
By going digital, states, districts, and schools will have more freedom over how often, where, and when to administer the SAT.
The new digital SAT will take about two hours instead of three, which is less time than the existing paper and pencil test. There will be a pause in between the two sections (Reading and Writing, Math).
Additionally, because the majority of preadministration tasks, such downloading the exam application and finishing the student questionnaire, will be completed prior to test day, the overall test day experience will be shorter. The administration team won’t have to spend time distributing, gathering, or organizing test materials.
Because the digital test will be adaptive, it will be able to measure the same fundamental reading, writing, and math abilities and knowledge much more effectively while simultaneously cutting down on the total test duration and giving kids more time for each question.
This means that each test section (Reading and Writing, Math) for the digital SAT Suite is separated into two portions known as modules. Before moving on to the second module, students must respond to a set of questions in the first module. Depending on their performance on the first module, students are given different questions in the second module. Beginning this fall, students will be able to practice using the new digital adaptive format.
Adaptive testing is used in many large-scale examinations, and more than 30 years of study has demonstrated its advantages, including: • More accurate measurement
• Specialized inquiries to address students’ needs
• Shorter exams
• More dependable testing
On a laptop or tablet, students can take the digital SAT Suite. They may employ a private gadget or one provided by the school.
If a student doesn’t own a device, they can ask the College Board to lend them one, and we’ll provide them one to use on test day. This is true for both international and American students taking the SAT over the weekend.
Any student who required a gadget to take the digital AP Exam at home in 2020 or 2021 was given one. For the SAT, we’ll put in place a similar strategy. Later this year, more details regarding the procedure for borrowing a device will be available.
The exam application has been designed to survive internet outages. Students won’t experience any delays if the internet goes out while taking the test because all of their work will be preserved and no testing time will be lost.
Throughout 2021, we conducted focus groups with various higher education enrollment leaders to get their opinions on the development of the digital SAT. Based on their responses, it is clear that these leaders will continue to use SAT scores from the digital test as part of their all-inclusive admissions procedures. As we get closer to our launch in 2023, we’ll keep talking to and listening to our members.
Numerous test-taking aids for pupils will be included in the digital testing program. Here are a few instances: A way for students to mark questions so they can return to them later; a countdown clock that they can choose to display or hide at the top of their testing screen to warn them when time is running out; a built-in graphing calculator they can use throughout the entire math section (or they can bring their own calculator); and a reference sheet with formulas for each math question.
On test day, we’ll have specialized customer care personnel available to resolve problems for both students and testing facilities. Additionally, we’re adding the position of technology coordinator for each testing location to offer additional support, as well as a help room where students can go to troubleshoot device issues with the help of the coordinator.
With the digital SAT Suite, scores will be transmitted considerably more quickly—in days as opposed to weeks.
Students’ performance and areas for improvement will continue to be detailed in score summaries for the digital SAT Suite. Reports will keep directing students to resources for financial aid, scholarships, and recognition schemes.
However, we’re making crucial adjustments that will make the digital SAT Suite a helpful tool for even more students.
A significant improvement is the inclusion of information on nearby two-year colleges and workforce training programs relevant to students’ accomplishments, interests, and financial objectives in their digital SAT Suite score reports. In order to help them set objectives and make better decisions about their future, students will also receive pertinent information on how their SAT score relates to job opportunities.
Later this year, we’ll talk more about the digital SAT Suite score reports.
The SAT will continue to be graded on a scale of 1600, and instructors and students can continue to track development throughout the entire suite over time. The SAT’s scores will also be equivalent, so a score of 1050 on the digital version of the test is equivalent to a 1050 on the paper and pencil version.
The digital SAT will continue to measure the same skills and information that students are learning in high school and those are most important for college and career readiness while we make modifications to test material to better fit digital delivery.
The test will be administered digitally, and questions will be more direct and more focused on measuring what children need to know to succeed in school and the workplace. The Reading and Writing component will consist of several shorter pieces, each linked to a single question, as opposed to a few lengthy reading passages with multiple questions. Questions in context (word problems) for the Math part will be shorter than those on the current test.
We anticipate that the digital SAT will continue to have high levels of predictability. As we switch to a digital SAT, we are performing considerable study and analysis, including thorough predicted validity studies: • In the spring or summer of 2022, a validity study will look at how the digital SAT compares to other educational indicators. • Fall 2023: A preliminary research on the predictive validity of college outcomes • Ongoing: Profound study to make sure the digital SAT gives a degree of dependability similar to the current paper-and-pencil SAT.
When they become available, we’ll share the findings from these studies as well as further findings from supplementary pilots and research.
Our journey to providing a digital SAT Suite of Assessments has been expedited by the epidemic. Nowadays, students do more of their coursework and assessments online, and the SAT shouldn’t be an exception. To make sure we continue to fulfill the needs of kids and educators, we are listening to feedback and changing.
But we’re not simply transferring the present SAT Suite to a digital platform. We are making the most of the advantages of digital assessment delivery. When it comes to where, when, and how often the SAT is administered, going digital enables us to offer considerably more flexibility, especially for states, districts, and schools who administer the SAT to all of their students as part of SAT School Day. It has been demonstrated that the school day has a significant impact on access and equity and increases the likelihood that low-income and rural kids would enroll in college.
The SAT continues to be a crucial component of a comprehensive admissions procedure. Test results can support a student’s grades or reveal talents that go beyond what their high school grades may suggest when examined in the context of where they live and learn.
Millions of students took the SAT even after almost all colleges during the pandemic made it optional. With the graduating high school class of 2022, this pattern has persisted. The majority of students desire to take the SAT, evaluate their results, and then choose whether or not to submit their scores to universities. 83% of students who responded to a survey stated they would like the option to give their test results to institutions. Regardless of whether students have taken the SAT, their race/ethnicity, or the educational level of their parents, this finding is true.
Homeschooled students will continue to take exams at testing facilities through our extensive network of weekend testing facilities.
Students may bring a pen or pencil in addition to the scratch paper that will be provided.
When test specifications are available this summer, we will provide more information. This will contain details on the following: Sections; Timing; Number of Questions; and Scoring Information.
We will also distribute sample questions this summer so that students can begin to understand how the material will differ from that on the paper and pencil exam.
The digital SAT Suite will only use digital tools and materials for educational guidance. The Test Day Toolkit will have access to administration guides and data for test center workers. All practice materials will be made digitally accessible to students on our digital testing app and through Official SAT Practice on Khan Academy. We will continue to produce thorough preparation information for students.
This is a new position that will be necessary for the digital version of the SAT Weekend exam but is not necessary for the paper version. The exam center’s wifi network is always operational, and the technology coordinator helps staff members and students who experience connectivity problems. In the center’s assistance area, the technology coordinator will also assist students with minor device problems. We’ll offer troubleshooting instructions to assist technology coordinators when we get closer to digital administrations.
Students will be told to bring a fully charged gadget that will last for three hours; however, if it can be done fairly and without disturbing other students, you may allow test-takers access to power.
If available, you should make arrangements for desks to be close to power outlets, power strips, and surge protectors in order to make the best use of the room’s power sources.
For students testing with an extended time accommodation, test centers are responsible for supplying a power source, albeit it is not required to be continuous. Later this year, we’ll offer further details on this need. We’ll work with test centers to ensure they have adequate power sources.
Students are responsible for having their testing application downloaded and their device fully charged before showing up at your test center. Prior to test day, we’ll let kids know about these expectations, and we’ll give you materials to share on your school’s or the testing facility’s website.
We are aware that some students might show up without having downloaded their app or with a low battery. If possible, you can allow them to charge their device or download the software in their testing space. Please be aware that although though access to power does not have to be continuous, test centers are responsible for giving students power if they have an extra time accommodation since they will be taking the test for longer than three hours.
Students who don’t already have a device can borrow one from College Board, and we’ll give it to them to use on test day. This request must be made by the students before the test. You should dismiss a student if they arrive at class without a device and have not gone through the process of asking to borrow one from College Board. You should tell the student to get in touch with College Board Customer Service if they have any inquiries regarding postponing their exam.
The majority of the digital testing center’s area and seating requirements are the same as those for the current paper and pencil SAT. Weekend operations: There are enough seats for your designated students, and the chairs’ backs are facing the same way. • A 3 foot distance between each student • Have all pupils be able to see the working clock; • Have test-related objects removed or covered.
Prior to your first digital administration, we will give you further in-depth policy information. We’ll keep an eye on the COVID-19 pandemic as usual and share any modifications we make to maintain public health safety.
For digital testing, test centers should budget for roughly the same number of employees as they do for paper testing.
A new position called technology coordinator will be created to manage the exam center’s wifi and assist students in resolving minor gadget problems.
To administer the digital SAT, coordinators and proctors are not required to have technical knowledge.
In our November 2021 global pilot, all proctors agreed that the digital SAT was equally as excellent as or better than the paper test to administer.
Yes. The digital SAT will be given by test organizers and proctors utilizing the Test Day Toolkit, which needs a device—a laptop, tablet, or smartphone.
“This was much much much much easier—no paper materials, no serial numbers,” said Proctor in a comment from the November Pilot. The future should be headed in this direction, and soon.
A web program for managing test centers is called Test Day Toolkit. On test day, it will be used by coordinators, proctors, and monitors to check students into their rooms, read the script, communicate the start code that students will enter to begin the test, and keep track of their progress. It will also be used by coordinators to view their roster of test centers and get those centers ready for upcoming administrations. Study up on Test Day Toolkit.
Any language can be selected for devices. Regardless of the language preference at the time of testing, the digital SAT will always be given in English.
We advise test administrators to check your test center’s network before the test to make sure it satisfies the minimal requirements for internet access, and to evaluate the internet speed in each testing room. If you aren’t acting as the technology coordinator yourself, this is a fantastic chance to involve them.
To make sure you’re prepared for testing, we’ll also offer pretest readiness advice closer to your administration as we do for paper exams.
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