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Wednesday 12 August 2026

GMAT · Change
GMAT Superscore goes live on score reports and mba.com

GMAT Superscore is now live. It combines your best Quantitative, Verbal and Data Insights scores from valid attempts of the current GMAT and appears automatically on Official Score Reports.
12 August 2026

GMAT · Report
GMAC announces GMAT Superscore, combining best section scores

GMAC will combine each candidate's highest GMAT section scores across valid attempts into a Superscore, shown on mba.com and on Official Score Reports, at no extra cost, from August 2026.
15 June 2026

SAT · Dates
SAT test dates for 2026-27, with deadlines and score release

There are eight SAT Weekend dates in 2026-27, from 22 August 2026 to 5 June 2027. Scores for most dates are due about two weeks after test day.
22 May 2026 · On 22 August 2026
SAT · Change
SAT fall 2026 changes: waitlist, Seat Reserve and Chromebook rules

From fall 2026 US students can join a free SAT waitlist, schools can hold seats for their own students, and Chromebooks need verified mode. Afternoon sessions open in some US regions.
22 May 2026 · From 22 August 2026

Duolingo English Test · Change
Duolingo English Test named in 2026 business school reporting standards

The 2026 GME Admissions Reporting Standards, drawn up with GMAC, now list the Duolingo English Test as an approved measure of English for business school applicants.
27 January 2026

SAT · Change
SAT adds September test date and self-identified fee waivers

College Board says it has added a new September SAT date, more than 170,000 extra seats, and fee waivers that US students can claim by self-identifying, not only through a counsellor.
24 November 2025

SAT · Dates
SAT test dates for 2025-26, with registration deadlines

The 2025-26 SAT year has eight weekend dates, from 23 August 2025 to 6 June 2026, including a new September date. Each regular deadline falls about two weeks before test day.
23 August 2025

SAT · Report
SAT March 2025 Bluebook fault: refunds, vouchers and makeup test

A Bluebook setting error submitted some SAT tests early on 8 March 2025. College Board refunded affected students, gave a free future registration and offered a makeup on 22 March.
14 March 2025

GMAT · Change
GMAT drops eight-attempt lifetime limit; five a year still applies

GMAC has removed the lifetime cap of eight GMAT attempts. Candidates can still take the exam at most five times in any rolling 12-month period, with at least 16 days between attempts.
24 October 2024

SAT · Dates
SAT test dates for 2024-25, with registration deadlines

College Board set seven SAT weekends for 2024-25, from 24 August 2024 to 7 June 2025, each with a registration deadline about two weeks earlier and a late deadline a few days after that.
24 August 2024

GMAT · Change
GMAT Focus Edition renamed back to the GMAT Exam

From 1 July 2024 GMAC returned to calling its test simply the GMAT Exam. The format and the 205 to 805 score scale of the Focus Edition stay the same.
1 July 2024

SAT · Change
Digital SAT launches in the US, ending the paper SAT

The first fully digital US SAT Weekend took place on 9 March 2024, completing the move to digital testing. The test is just over two hours long and is taken in the Bluebook app.
12 March 2024 · From 9 March 2024

GMAT · Change
Old GMAT retired: Focus Edition only from 1 February 2024

The previous GMAT, now called the 10th Edition, was last offered on 31 January 2024. From 1 February 2024 the Focus Edition is the only GMAT, and old scores stay valid for five years.
31 January 2024 · From 1 February 2024

GMAT · Change
GMAT Focus Edition testing begins: shorter exam, new scale

The GMAT Focus Edition went live on 7 November 2023: 64 questions in 2 hours 15 minutes across Quantitative, Verbal and Data Insights, scored 205 to 805, with no essay.
7 November 2023

GMAT · Dates
GMAT Focus Edition registration opens for 7 November start

Registration for the GMAT Focus Edition opened on 29 August 2023, with the first exams on 7 November 2023. The previous GMAT stayed bookable until early 2024.
29 August 2023 · On 7 November 2023

GMAT · Report
GMAT Focus Edition scoring set at 205 to 805, fees unchanged

GMAC said GMAT Focus Edition scores would run from 205 to 805, built equally from three sections scored 60 to 90, that fees would match the existing GMAT, and that scores last five years.
2 May 2023

GMAT · Report
GMAT Focus Edition announced: no essay, new Data Insights section

GMAC announced the GMAT Focus Edition, an exam nearly an hour shorter with three 45-minute sections, no Analytical Writing Assessment and no Sentence Correction, due to start in late 2023.
28 March 2023

SAT · Change
Digital SAT starts for international students in March 2023

From March 2023 students testing outside the US take the SAT digitally in Bluebook. The new test has two sections, Reading and Writing and Math, and adapts between modules.
11 March 2023

SAT · Dates
SAT test dates for 2022-23, the last paper year in the US

College Board listed seven SAT dates for 2022-23, from 27 August 2022 to 3 June 2023. Students outside the US moved to the digital SAT from March 2023; US students stayed on paper that…
27 August 2022

GMAT · Report
GMAC cancels GMAT scores of over 100 people in cheating case

GMAC cancelled the GMAT scores of more than 100 people linked to a cheating ring, including proxy test taking, banned them from future testing and told the schools that had their scores.
9 March 2022

SAT · Report
SAT to go digital: international in 2023, US in 2024

College Board announced that the SAT will move to a shorter digital test, about two hours long, starting internationally in 2023 and in the US in 2024, still taken at a school or test…
25 January 2022