What Is a Good SAT Score?

Learn what a good SAT score is, how it compares to other test takers, and what scores you need for top colleges, scholarships ...
Forbes

What To Know About The New Digital SAT

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. As the CEO of Command Education, I write about emotionally intelligent leadership and education. In December 2023, the College ...
Pew Research Center

For the 100th anniversary of the SAT, a look at standardized test scores over time

On June 23, 1926, about 8,000 high school students across the United States took the first Scholastic Aptitude Test, known today as the SAT. That test looked very different than the one that about 2 ...
CNN

Should the SAT still matter after all these years? Why some colleges are bringing it back

Generations of American teens have taken the SAT, a blood-pressure-raising multi-hour exam they are told could make or break their academic futures. The longest-enduring standardized college ...
Forbes

6 Arguments Against The SAT—And Why They Don’t Hold Up

The SAT and ACT have long been attacked as biased and open to manipulation, and the pandemic has helped weaken their influence. But if we understand what the tests measure, they have some value.

SAT scores 2026: How NYS students performed

New York's Class of 2026 had a higher mean SAT score than the national average and the state's highest participation rate ...
The New Yorker

How the Pandemic Remade the SAT

The mood was optimistic. “This is my favorite slide,” a staff member said, as she pulled up a summary of the pilot results. “With only one exception”—a test-taker in São Paulo, Brazil, whose laptop ...
Hindustan Times

SAT preparation simplified: Test Structure, preparation strategy and official learning resources

Every year, thousands of students in the United States, India, and other countries set their sights on higher education, with the SAT serving as a crucial stepping stone to their dreams. Thousands of ...
Los Angeles Times

SAT scores are another way UC schools are closing their doors to diversity

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred In this last year, the University of California ...
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See the top 25, bottom 25 Michigan school districts for SAT scores

The average combined SAT score across Michigan public school districts ranged from 694 to 1186 in the 2025-26 school year.
U.S. News & World Report

The Optional SAT Essay: What to Know

Although the essay portion of the SAT became optional in 2016, many students still chose to write it to demonstrate strong or improved writing skills to prospective colleges. In June 2021, the College ...
Los Angeles Times

Grades vs. SAT scores: Which is a better predictor of college success?

As a student at Kaiser High School in Fontana two years ago, Melissa Morfin-Acevedo bombed her SAT test, scoring in the bottom third percentile nationally. The daughter of an immigrant single mother ...