Major changes coming to the SAT this spring
(CNN) – Students will no longer sit behind a desk with a pencil in hand for the SAT. Instead, the test will be 100% digital.
Students will take the SAT on an app called Bluebook using personal or school-provided laptops or tablets.
The paper and pencil format won’t be available except in rare cases.
Another big change is what the college board is calling “adaptive” testing.
The math and reading sections will each have two parts.
A student’s performance in the first part of each section will determine how hard the second part is.
So, if a student does poorly on the first section, the second section will be easier.
The test uses difficulty level to calibrate a person’s score.
Another change is that the test will be just over two hours long, roughly an hour shorter than before.
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