TL;DR
- The College Board already bans most tech during the SATs, including the use of smartphones and smartwatches.
- That’s now being extended to smart glasses for 2026.
- Not even prescription smart glasses will be allowed — you’ll need to change to a non-smart frame.
For as long as technology has existed, people have been using it to cheat. I’m as guilty as anyone, loading a text-only copy of Wikipedia onto my old Dell Axim X30 to cheat at bar trivia back in the days before smartphones. As tech becomes more and more capable, that only opens up new avenues for cheating — and as we just saw at CES this year, smart glasses have become very, very good. And that’s probably exactly why they’re being banned for use during the SATs.
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