![]() On Monday, College Board and Khan officials said the study of 250,000 students over the new test’s first year showed the partnership is working well and that practice paid off for young people. Some school districts in California, such as Long Beach, and youth groups such as the Boys & Girls Clubs, have embraced the new Khan SAT tutorials. The website uses earlier PSAT/National Merit results and practice tests to focus on students’ personal weaknesses in math and English. The Khan Academy’s free “Official SAT Practice” site of videos and exercises was created for that change and promised to help level the playing field for low-income students who could not afford private coaching or commercial preparation. In March 2016, the College Board started to offer its dramatically revamped SAT, which aligned the test more closely with high school classes and ended penalties for guessing. A perfect score on the two parts of the SAT would be 1600 total. That improvement was reportedly double the average increase of students who did not use the Khan tutorials. ![]() ![]() Students who studied for 20 hours through the personalized lessons on Khan Academy showed an average 115-point increase between their earlier and preliminary PSAT/NMSQT exam and the actual SAT that colleges use to help decide admission offers, according to a study from the two groups. The partnership between the College Board and the online Khan Academy in offering free SAT prep tutorials has helped boost scores significantly on that widely used college entrance exam, the organizations announced Monday.
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