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Focus on the SAT at the national college conference

Cyril E. Power The Exam Room

Study of Standardized Admissions Tests Is Big Draw at College Conference - article in Monday’s NYTimes

and

College panel calls for less focus on SAT’s

I’m looking forward to hearing more from the PDS college guidance team who were at the conference in Seattle last week.

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