<story><title>U.S. students will take the SAT online</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2024/03/05/1235891530/sat-online-digital-test-college</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dylan604</author><text>&amp;gt; I&amp;#x27;m shocked at how laissez-faire we&amp;#x27;ve gotten for college entrance exams,&lt;p&gt;to the point that they stopped requiring SAT altogether, but are starting to bring it back. there&amp;#x27;s a lot of things they&amp;#x27;ve done is head scratching. i &lt;i&gt;loved&lt;/i&gt; when they changed the scores so that your result from 10 years prior suddenly become a lower result so people had to know &lt;i&gt;when&lt;/i&gt; you took the test to properly weight the result.&lt;p&gt;The laissez-faire attitude to drivers licensing when they stopped requiring road tests for new drivers was bonkers as well to me.</text></item><item><author>icyfox</author><text>When I took the GRE in 2017, everything was digital as well. But I couldn&amp;#x27;t believe how locked down the experience was. The testing center in downtown SF had no windows, a metal detector, and you had to check all food outside of the testing room. Just in case you were going to try to cheat off of your banana. I think each computer was also recording a video of you taking the test although I might be mistaken here. Certainly there were cameras set up all around the perimeter.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m shocked at how laissez-faire we&amp;#x27;ve gotten for college entrance exams, which I&amp;#x27;d arguably say are much more important at getting you _into_ the graduate programs than the actual graduate program exams are themselves.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CrazyStat</author><text>&amp;gt; i loved when they changed the scores so that your result from 10 years prior suddenly become a lower result so people had to know when you took the test to properly weight the result.&lt;p&gt;I took the GRE just before they switched from scoring out of 800 on each section to scoring out of 180. After the switch they kindly mailed me “converted” scores on the new 180 scale, which turned my perfect math score—I hadn’t missed a single question—into a 178. I was not amused.</text></comment>
<story><title>U.S. students will take the SAT online</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2024/03/05/1235891530/sat-online-digital-test-college</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dylan604</author><text>&amp;gt; I&amp;#x27;m shocked at how laissez-faire we&amp;#x27;ve gotten for college entrance exams,&lt;p&gt;to the point that they stopped requiring SAT altogether, but are starting to bring it back. there&amp;#x27;s a lot of things they&amp;#x27;ve done is head scratching. i &lt;i&gt;loved&lt;/i&gt; when they changed the scores so that your result from 10 years prior suddenly become a lower result so people had to know &lt;i&gt;when&lt;/i&gt; you took the test to properly weight the result.&lt;p&gt;The laissez-faire attitude to drivers licensing when they stopped requiring road tests for new drivers was bonkers as well to me.</text></item><item><author>icyfox</author><text>When I took the GRE in 2017, everything was digital as well. But I couldn&amp;#x27;t believe how locked down the experience was. The testing center in downtown SF had no windows, a metal detector, and you had to check all food outside of the testing room. Just in case you were going to try to cheat off of your banana. I think each computer was also recording a video of you taking the test although I might be mistaken here. Certainly there were cameras set up all around the perimeter.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m shocked at how laissez-faire we&amp;#x27;ve gotten for college entrance exams, which I&amp;#x27;d arguably say are much more important at getting you _into_ the graduate programs than the actual graduate program exams are themselves.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwitaway222</author><text>They stopped requiring road tests? Man, seems like that would cause a bunch of cybertrucks to drive into hotels or something.</text></comment>