(Image courtesy of Andrew Shin) The mean score nationwide for 1.7 million high school graduates in 2017 who took the SAT was 1060, with 533 in the reading/writing section and 527 in math. Only ...

WASHINGTON — The perfect score will again be 1,600. What’s more, the essay will be optional, students will no longer be penalized for wrong answers and the vocabulary is shifting to do away ...

The SAT college entrance exam is undergoing a sweeping revision that will again set the perfect score at 1600.

The new SAT will continue to test reading, writing and math skills, with an emphasis on analysis. With the 1,600-point scale, which had been used until 2004, there will be a separate score for the ...