This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred Six years after dropping SAT and ACT ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un went on an inspection of a new plant that makes weapons-grade nuclear material this week. There, the state-run media reported that Kim said that Pyongyang was planning ...

More than 90% of four-year universities do not require incoming students to submit SAT or ACT standardized test scores after pandemic-era rollbacks in the name of “fairness.” But now professors at ...

As your editorial “The Academy Rethinks the SAT” (May 29) makes clear, students’ math preparedness is a serious concern. It’s one I share. Yet your piece fails to mention what the University of ...

Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...

Journal Editorial Report: How top marks became the norm at elite colleges. Photo: Sophie Park/Bloomberg News/Faith Ninivaggi/Reuters Six years ago, in the 2020 year of progressive pandemic madness, ...

The prediction platform that takes bets on everything from who will win the Stanley Cup to when Taylor Swift will tie the knot is joining forces with the National Council on Problem Gambling, which ...

Hundreds of UC faculty are urging a return of SAT or ACT test requirements for STEM applicants, citing math deficits after six years of being test-free. A UC San Diego report of soaring math ...

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The debate over standardized testing often centers on fairness, but it overlooks a more fundamental issue: unequal access to preparation. Unsplash+ On March 14, millions of high school students sat ...

AI is set to revolutionize standardized test preparation, with some companies seeing opportunity while others predict the industry’s downfall. Students can spend anywhere from hundreds to a few ...

GPT just keeps getting better at mathematics, increasingly solving the trickiest of problems. In January, AI testing company Epoch AI found that a previous version of the AI model, GPT-5.2 Pro had ...