College board to offer new test.

College board to offer new test. THE SAT, PSAT PSAT Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude TestPSAT Puget Sound Action TeamPSAT Particulate Source Apportionment TechnologyPSAT Predicted Site Acquisition TablePSAT Princeton South Asian TheatricsPSAT Pacific Situation Assessment Team (DoD), SAT SUBJECT tests, ACT and Advanced Placement exams Advanced Placement examinations are taken each May by students at participating Canadian, American, and international educational institutions. The tests are the culmination of year-long AP courses. represent a formidable battery of tests that many high school studentstake as they prepare for college. Now the College Board. which owns theSAT and other standardized standardizedpertaining to data that have been submitted to standardization procedures.standardized morbidity ratesee morbidity rate.standardized mortality ratesee mortality rate. assessments, has debuted one more. The new test, called ReadiStep, is targeted for eighth-graders andis intended to help prepare them for rigorous high school courses andcollege. College Board officials are calling it an instructional anddiagnostic tool and say it will have "nothing to do with collegeadmissions." [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] But others aren't so sure. Critics say kids are tested enoughas it is, and that the new test will succeed only in accelerating thecollege admissions arms race and forcing it on ever-younger children. "Who needs yet another precollege standardized exam when thereis already a pre-SAT and the SAT test itself?" says RobertSchaeffer, the public education director of FairTest, a nonpartisan non��par��ti��san?adj.Based on, influenced by, affiliated with, or supporting the interests or policies of no single political party: a nonpartisan commission; nonpartisan opinions. group pushing for making standardized tests A standardized test is a test administered and scored in a standard manner. The tests are designed in such a way that the "questions, conditions for administering, scoring procedures, and interpretations are consistent" [1] optional for collegeadmissions. The new exam, designed to be completed within two hours and dividedinto three multiple-choice sections of critical reading, writing skillsand math, will be available to schools next fall.