More American Colleges Turn to Chinese Admissions Test
By Elizabeth Redden. More colleges begin accepting gaokao scores from mainland Chinese students in lieu of other standardized tests. More...
What Would Change With Test-Only Admissions?
By Scott Jaschik. The Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce decided to conduct what it called a "thought experiment" on such a system. And that experiment found that the use of test scores alone would result in a significantly different student body -- more white and more wealthy -- than is admitted now. More...
4 More Colleges Go Test Optional
By Scott Jaschik. Latest group includes one institution -- University of Rochester -- that is competitive in admissions. More...
Parcoursup : la phase d'admission est suspendue pendant les épreuves du baccalauréat
Alors que les épreuves écrites du baccalauréat débutent le 17 juin, 85 % des élèves de terminale inscrits sur Parcoursup ont déjà reçu au moins une proposition d'admission pour la rentrée prochaine. La procédure poursuit son cours jusqu'au 19 juillet. L'envoi de propositions d'admission est interrompu du 17 au 24 juin, pour permettre aux lycéens de se concentrer pleinement sur leurs épreuves. Plus...ParcourSup. Un état très incomplet
Sur le blog "Histoires d'universités" de Pierre Dubois. Le tableau de bord ParcoursSup est bien trop succinct. Il ne permet aucune analyse sérieuse de la situation des candidats. Il ne distingue en effet que deux catégories de candidats : candidats lycéens et candidats en réorientation ou scolarisés à l’étranger. Plus...ParcourSup : risquer le surbooking ?
Sur le blog "Histoires d'universités" de Pierre Dubois. Université Paris Est Marne la Vallée, 20 mai 2019. Communiqué de la Commission d’examen des dossiers d’entrée en L1 Physique Chimie (PC) et Sciences pour l’ingénieur (SPI IFSA). L’année de cette L1 est entièrement commune. Plus...Will new online guidance on ‘facilitating subjects’ help or hinder fair access to highly-selective universities?
The Russell Group have just changed their official guidance for school students. They have moved away from a list of traditional ‘facilitating’ subjects. Instead, they are offering an online tool that gives course-specific guidance on what subjects are essential or useful to get onto different university disciplines. The new Informed Choices website is designed to be less open to misinterpretation than the old list was. More...
The SAT’s new ‘adversity score’ is a poor fix for a problematic test
The College Board recently revealed a new “adversity score” that it plans to use as part of the SAT in order to reflect students’ social and economic background. More...
Was SAT Biology Subject Test Compromised?
By Scott Jaschik. The National Center for Fair & Open Testing, a group that has long criticized standardized tests and pointed to security problems on them, revealed Thursday that it had received a call with information about questions on the SAT subject test in biology given last weekend. More...