Sentence examples for the sat for from inspiring English sources

Harvard College, too, has been using the SAT for generations -- it was mandatory for applicants starting in 1935.

By the fall of his senior year, I was trying to get him to take the SAT for a third time.

At a State Senate hearing on Oct. 24, legislators and school officials criticized the College Board, which sponsors the SAT, and the Educational Testing Service, which administers the SAT, for lax oversight.

Nearly 8,000 students from around the world are being advised to retake the SAT for college admissions because their answer sheets are missing -- apparently trapped in two New Jersey post offices that had been contaminated by anthrax spores.

Dundee Holt, the council's vice president for development and communications, says the council finds such measures a better "indicator of success than the SAT for minority students" and doesn't consider entrance exam scores.

Students used to take the SAT for the first time at the end of their junior year, but like a lot of kids now, Nick will take it in December, "for practice," his mother said.

The majority of the students sat for the test more than once.

The duchess sat for the artist twice.

Before the first measurement, the student sat for 5 minutes.

But then the train sat for two hours.

And there the case sat for 56 years.