The Broadview

College Board will no longer offer subject tests, optional essay

Focus removed from standardized testing

Keira Blattberg, Reporter • January 20, 2021

WEB EXCLUSIVE The College Board announced on Jan. 19 that it will no longer offer the SAT subject tests and the SAT optional essay, forcing students to use their extracurriculars and transcripts as a substitute. Juniors...

Testing the waters

Standardized testing can provide unfair advantages in applications

Staff Editorial • September 24, 2020

With the pause on standardized testing due to COVID-19 magnifying the role of the SAT and ACT in college admissions, universities should consider the realities of financial inequality when deciding whether...

Testing uncertainty affects college application process

Students adjust to SAT and ACT cancellations due to COVID-19

Gabrielle Guido and Madeline Thiara • August 20, 2020

Availability for standardized testing is causing uncertainty in the college admissions process as students struggle to find open testing locations during the coronavirus pandemic. Even when students sign...

Juniors attend testing workshop

Gray Timberlake, Senior Reporter • January 16, 2019

WEB EXCLUSIVE Juniors participated in a full-day ACT and SAT test preparation day yesterday with Compass Education Group. Compass brought in team members for three sessions, math and science strategies,...

Institutions open doors

Optional tests offer more student access to universities, colleges

Laura Mogannam, Managing Editor • September 27, 2018

Preparing for and taking standardized tests can cost an applicant’s family hundreds to thousands of dollars and dozens of hours, only for a student to receive a score that an admissions representative...

Information night highlights new SAT

Standardized Testing Info Night brought information to students and their parents about the testing process.

Asha Khanna, Senior Reporter • November 10, 2015

Freshmen, sophomores and juniors and their families gathered in the Little Theater for the annual Standardized Testing Info Night this evening. “We want to educate parents and students about standardized...

Seniors commended for success

National Merit Scholarship Corporation recognizes six students for their outstanding PSAT results.

India Thieriot, Assistant Copy Editor • October 26, 2015

The sound of clapping filled Syufy Theatre as students supported a few of their senior peers in a commendation of academic excellence. After taking the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test (PSAT) last...

PSAT enables viral Internet craze

Neely Metz, Copy Editor • October 16, 2015

Although students completed the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test yesterday, people who took the PSAT created a new internet sensation consisting of memes based on elements from the standardized test....

PSAT brings standardized testing to school

Students take standardized test in preparation for SAT.

Grace Ainslie, Senior Reporter • October 14, 2015

Freshmen, sophomores and juniors entered their assigned rooms with only a calculator and pencil this morning to take the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test. “It was hard because I didn’t know...