College Board said "Reducing and Simplifying Demands on Students" by killing the Subject tests and optional essay. I argue its a consolidation of their product line. https://lnkd.in/gVY8npr 
Why The College Board Is Dropping The SAT Subject Tests And Optional Essay

As a savvy PR move and business strategy, College Board To end SAT Subject Tests and optional SAT essay.

https://lnkd.in/gVY8npr
I think a quick look at this spreadsheet will tell you why College Board dropped the subject tests.
I can't imaging that giving those 305 Hebrew tests was worth the cost of printing the booklets
What information do colleges get out of Subject Tests like Chinese, which is scored from 200 - 800, but 88% of test takers score over 750?
wait. here is a better/updated version of the previous image.
Also can we talk about the weird scoring/scaling of these tests..

A kid who gets all 50 questions right on the Math 2 test will get the same score as the kid who skips 10 questions. #DieSubjectTestsDie
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