The perfect score of yore — 1600 — is back and just as impressive as ever. But many students could be forgiven these days for puzzling over whether their own SAT scores are good, great or ...

Mike Directo, a 17-year-old senior at Hart High School in Newhall, calmly retrieved a letter from his mailbox this week that contained his SAT score. He did not stay calm for long. “I let out a ...

The SAT college admission test will no longer require a timed essay, will dwell less on fancy vocabulary and will return to the familiar 1600-point scoring scale in a major overhaul intended to ...

Nathan Herold first took the Scholastic Assessment Test when he was in the 7th grade, and scored a highly respectable 1,390. This year, as an 8th grader, he aced it with a perfect 1,600. “I t… ...

It worked out with a perfect score of 1600, which happens for less than 1% of 2 million students who take the test annually. Alex found out when he got an email saying his score was posted.