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    What You Should Know About The New Summer SAT

    For the first time since the 1970s, the SAT will be offered in the summer. As students get ready to sit for the test this Saturday, we ask: What does this new date mean for students?
    by Elissa Nadworny Aug 24, 2017 4 minutes
    Source: Ryan Johnson for NPR

    On Friday night, Fabrice Charles is planning to go to bed early so he can get a good night's sleep. He's got a big day on Saturday, when he'll join hundreds of thousands of other students taking the new summer SAT.

    "I get stressed really easily," he says, "so I've just got to relax and think back to my exercises."

    For the first time since the 1970s, the College Board is offering an August SAT testing date and the rising high school senior in Boston says he's ready.

    The test will come a full six weeks before the October test (traditionally the first time in the school year students could take it). This marks a welcome

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