No More No. 2 Pencils: The SAT Goes Fully Digital

With adolescent anxiety surging and attention spans challenged, high school students will take a revamped version of the SAT on Saturday, which has been designed in part to reduce stress, according to the College Board, which administers the test. The exam will be briefer — two hours and 14 minutes instead of three hours — and students will have more time for each question. The reading passages will be much shorter, and test-takers will now be able to use an online graphing calculator for the entire math section of the exam. And after 98 years of students scratching answers on paper, the SAT will now be fully digital for the remote-learning generation.