NYTimes article: SAT marketing new products in a push to the classroom

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<p>The following article, also from the August 16 NYT online edition, certainly does drive home the point made in the above cited article that the SAT faces strong competition from the ACT.</p>

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More than 1.2 million of this year’s graduating seniors, about 40 percent of the graduating class, took the ACT.</p>

<p>At a time when there has been a growing national concern about low levels of literacy and writing skills, ACT said that 36 percent of the seniors who took the test also took the optional writing section that it introduced in February 2005. The average score was 7.7 on a scale of 2 to 12. Girls did slightly better, averaging a score of 7.9, while boys averaged 7.4.</p>

<p>The College Board also added a writing segment to the SAT last year, but it was mandatory. The College Board is scheduled to release its annual SAT results on Aug. 29.

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