Yes! This is a permanent elimination:
The University of California board of regents, in a landmark move that could reshape the college admissions process across the country, voted Thursday to drop the SAT and ACT testing requirement.
Source: UC regents unanimously approve plan to drop SAT and ACT from admissions – SFChronicle.com
My own state has also eliminated SAT and ACT tests for public college admissions, starting this fall.
As the victim of a GRE testing failure decades ago that shaped my entire life, I am thrilled to see the end of these absurd testing regimes.
In the case of the GRE, the year I took the exam they introduced a new section to evaluate a student’s “logical reasoning” ability. Even though I scored above the 90th percentile on English and Math, I scored 28th percentile on this new section. That’s a failing grade.
Years later I learned, hidden in a footnote, that colleges had been instructed to ignore the “logical reasoning” score the year I took the exam, as there were errors in the test. GRE never notified students of these errors in their test. Consequently, I made wrong decisions, with life time impacts, based on their incompetence.
Numerous graduate programs are now dropping the GRE requirement too!
This is fantastic news! Standardized testing grew out of tests given to military recruits in the early 20th century – the tests were designed to filter out minorities. Some think the tests have continued to do that – we know that SAT scores correlate very well with household income, for example.
The tests appear to filter out students based on cultural backgrounds and household income – something that is not good for anyone.
