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Test Prep and Covid-19
AP Exam updates
4/27/20 Registration for the fall SAT exams (Aug-Dec) will be available soon. Students will be contacted directly from College Board the
week of May 26 with an exact date.
4/17/20 CSUs are no longer requiring the SAT or ACT for the Class of 2021.
4/14/20 The June SAT has been cancelled. If schools do not reopen in the fall, College Board will offer in-home digital SAT exams with remote proctoring. Registration will begin in May, but the exact date has not been announced. If you already signed up for the June test, or are a junior with no test scores, you can register early. Again, the exact dates will be announced.
4/1/20 University of California is drastically relaxing its fall 2021 admissions standards for applicants who are currently high school juniors, including suspending the requirement that they take standardized tests and allowing pass/fail grades for this spring’s classes affected by the coronavirus pandemic. This is NOT a permanent change but an accommodation due to the impact of the coronavirus. Students applying for fall 2021 can still take tests and send scores to UC if they are able. Doing so can support their UC eligibility and help fulfill some university graduation requirements. But campuses must ensure that “no student is harmed in admissions selection should they not submit a test score,” according to the UC statement.
Update of grade requirements
Both UC and CSU will not require a letter grade for the mandatory so-called A-G courses taken in high school this year in winter, spring or summer. That affects current high school seniors as well. Seniors already have received their acceptance or rejection letters from UC and CSU campuses but in normal years acceptances can be revoked in the summer if students’ grades significantly drop in the spring.
Will the June ACT be cancelled?
I think it's inevitable that the ACT will not be administering the June exam. They just haven't announced it yet.
4/27/20 Registration for the fall SAT exams (Aug-Dec) will be available soon. Students will be contacted directly from College Board the
week of May 26 with an exact date.
4/17/20 CSUs are no longer requiring the SAT or ACT for the Class of 2021.
4/14/20 The June SAT has been cancelled. If schools do not reopen in the fall, College Board will offer in-home digital SAT exams with remote proctoring. Registration will begin in May, but the exact date has not been announced. If you already signed up for the June test, or are a junior with no test scores, you can register early. Again, the exact dates will be announced.
4/1/20 University of California is drastically relaxing its fall 2021 admissions standards for applicants who are currently high school juniors, including suspending the requirement that they take standardized tests and allowing pass/fail grades for this spring’s classes affected by the coronavirus pandemic. This is NOT a permanent change but an accommodation due to the impact of the coronavirus. Students applying for fall 2021 can still take tests and send scores to UC if they are able. Doing so can support their UC eligibility and help fulfill some university graduation requirements. But campuses must ensure that “no student is harmed in admissions selection should they not submit a test score,” according to the UC statement.
Update of grade requirements
Both UC and CSU will not require a letter grade for the mandatory so-called A-G courses taken in high school this year in winter, spring or summer. That affects current high school seniors as well. Seniors already have received their acceptance or rejection letters from UC and CSU campuses but in normal years acceptances can be revoked in the summer if students’ grades significantly drop in the spring.
Will the June ACT be cancelled?
I think it's inevitable that the ACT will not be administering the June exam. They just haven't announced it yet.