SAT has been one of the most important exams for high school candidates and students are often panicked stricken with SAT. But this year, the scenario is changed due to Covid-19. A number of schools announced that the applicants don’t need to send their SAT scores as a part of their applications – this happened for the very first time. Though it is a special situation, it throws a big question to the admission procedure of post-Covid-19 times.

Why SAT Is not Required This year?

SAT exam centers are now closed due to the pandemic and the candidates cannot take SAT right from the start of worldwide lockdown. As a result, universities have no other option than waiving the SAT or ACT score requirements for admission purposes.

What are the alternatives to SAT?

Currently, GPA, extracurricular, and previous academic scores are getting priority in terms of admission.

Now this year is about to end and a question pops up in the mind of almost everyone: is it the beginning of new age admission? Will this new application procedure be continued for the next academic session? Let’s find out some anticipated answers to these questions.

Will SAT be required for Admission after Covid-19?

By omitting the SAT requirement this year, the universities have shown the SAT is not the only benchmark for selecting the best candidates in different courses. Plus, after a number of researches, it is also found that the candidates also don’t consider SAT as a valid method of testing their skills. For the applicants, SAT is a very unfair way of testing them.

The candidates are allowed to take SAT as many timed as they want, but the questions and topics are different in each test – as a result, SAT score does not get much changed. The problem is higher for those students whose family income is lower. Even though SAT score does not get improved, they have to pay $50 for each test. Most of the SAT candidates cannot even think of taking it twice because of its charges.

The applications during the Covid-19 times showed that candidates across the world can get admission even in the globally top universities with the SAT scores – so, the assumption that SAT will not be required any more is getting intensified.

In 2020, the colleges understood that admission is possible without SAT score as there are other reliable ways to test the candidates.

What is the opinion of the Colleges?

Several colleges confirmed that admission without SAT is just the admission process of 2020. From the next year, they will be continuing own way of admission. It means SAT will not be optional in a number of colleges, but in its testing and format, some changes are possibly inevitable.

To sum up, SAT is optional just because of the Covid-19 situation, and SAT will be required in post-pandemic times. So they need to take proper preparation of SAT to crack SAT with a good score.