Are you tired of filling out the bubbles, staring at the long list of questions on the exam sheets, or maybe the violent feet tapping of the student next to you?

Actually, you will still have to deal with that last bit, but on the other hand, the SATs are undergoing significant changes! The SAT exam is a multiple choice standardized test used to measure students’ college readiness.

To begin with, forget about pencil and paper, the test is going digital. Although it is digital, it is most definitely not a take-home test. The exam will be taken during school hours, or weekends under a proctor’s careful supervision. The digital exam will be adaptive which can change to the questions’ level of difficulty based on the student’s performance.

“The digital SAT will be easier to take, easier to give, and more relevant,” said Priscilla Rodriguez, vice president of College Readiness Assessments at College Board. The overall exam will be shorter for both students and supervisors. The length of the exam will be reduced from three hours to two hours and on top of being digital, there is no need for packing, shipping, and passing out exams.

For the reading section, there will no longer be a long passage with multiple questions to each passage, and will now be shorter reading passages and one question for each. On top of that, they are editing the wordiness of the questions to be more concise and understandable.

In Math with the calculator and non-calculator sections, calculators will now be allowed throughout the whole exam. In addition, there will be a digital calculator embedded in the exam, which saves the trouble of spending hundreds of dollars on calculators.

Now, instead of waiting weeks or up to a month for test results, you can get the results within a matter of days! According to the College Board, 80% of the students who took the exam found it less stressful than the original format, some stating that it was easier to stay focused with the shorter passages and others feeling less drained at the end.

The efficiency and practicality of the new SATs format will give rise to the new era of standardized testing.