The essay portion of the SAT and ACT is technically optional, but that doesn't mean you should write it off. Many colleges require applicants to provide their essay results from one of the exams, ...

On Saturday, hundreds of thousands of high-school students took the SAT. The first section in the more than three-hour test is writing, in which students pen an essay on a pseudo-profound question ...

Three years after the College Board increased students' anxieties with its decision to add a handwritten essay to the SAT, and three months after the test made its debut, many universities are still ...

Re "Topic: Essays Are Useful. Discuss," by Curtis Sittenfeld (Op-Ed, March 6): As an Advanced Placement English teacher at DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, I, too, applaud the inclusion of an ...

Colleges are quickly dropping their SAT and ACT essay requirements for applicants, with education experts saying the compositions “have never been of much use” and the institutions suggesting that ...

The SAT is changing. Again. For the second time in just over a decade, the College Board, which administers the exam, is planning to redesign the exam. The details of the redesign aren’t public yet, ...

The SAT’s essay-writing component, which was introduced in 2005, has been accused of many sins. Critics have said that the new test rewards students for having good handwriting, for filling a page ...