The College Board announced on Monday that it would bar all nonstudents from taking the new SAT this Saturday. That irked test-prep tutors, hundreds if not thousands of whom had registered for the examination, eager to see how it had or had not changed. In their field, firsthand experience with standardized tests is gold.
The College Board has long allowed people who aren’t high-school students to take the SAT. So many registrants were surprised to learn that they couldn’t do so until the next administration of the exam, in May. “Letting people who are in a position to advise students actually take the test and see what’s going on, that’s valuable,” said Sheila Akbar, director of education at Signet Education (formerly Veritas Tutors), in New York. “The College Board has made it clear that they don’t want test-prep people taking this test.”
But the College Board cited a different concern for the policy change — cheating.
Read more at The Chronicle of Higher Education: https://chronicle.com/article/Theories-Abound-to-Explain/235557
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