Two major stress points in the grueling rituals of college admission testing are vanishing this year: the optional essay-writing section of the SAT and the supplementary exams in various fields known ...

The SAT college admission test will no longer require a timed essay, will dwell less on fancy vocabulary and will return to the familiar 1600-point scoring scale in a major overhaul intended to open ...

Writing, Audrianna Galvin says forthrightly, has never been her strong suit. So the teenager was more than a little anxious when makers of the SAT college entrance exam announced in 2002 that a ...

Colleges are quickly dropping their SAT and ACT essay requirements for applicants, with education experts saying the compositions “have never been of much use” and the institutions suggesting that ...

Regarding James S. Murphy’s “Don’t Overhaul the SAT Essay, Dump It” (op-ed, Oct. 15): The single skill vital to success in nearly every college major is the ability to compose a clearly argued essay, ...