SAT dates and registration

This list is the same for US and international students. There used to be a shorter separate calendar for testing abroad — it no longer exists.

There is no January, February or April sitting.

The table above says when the exam is. But nobody arrives at this page asking when the exam is; they arrive asking whether they are already too late. What follows answers that.

Each cell is a subtraction and nothing more: the exam date minus the length of that preparation. It is arithmetic, not a promise.

You should not have to come back to this page. Put the deadlines in your own phone's calendar and let it do the remembering.

Registration closes at 23:59 US Eastern. In Tashkent that is around nine the following morning. The exact hour shifts with US daylight saving, so we do not print one.

Practical advice: register a day early. A last-day application dies when a card is declined or a photo is rejected — and then you wait two months for the next sitting.

College Board does not publish a score-release date for each sitting. We will not invent one.

Scores usually arrive some weeks after the exam, but that is a range, not a date. When you are counting back from a university deadline, plan against the long end of that range, not the short one.

For a student testing from Uzbekistan there are exactly two required fees: registration and the international fee.

College Board’s fee-waiver programme is written for low-income 11th and 12th graders in the United States and its territories. For a student schooled abroad there is an additional condition: US citizenship.

So a student living in Uzbekistan who is not a US citizen does not qualify. This is not our decision — we are only reporting the rule.

The centre list lives in College Board’s own search and opens separately for each sitting. Centres open and close, and seats fill.

We do not name a centre in Uzbekistan here. Several conflicting lists circulate online and none of them is College Board’s. You choose your centre inside that search when you register — it is the only reliable source.

We are not a test centre.

Every year students are turned away at the door, and it is almost always the ID.

• It must be unexpired.
• It must be the original, physical document — no photocopy, no photo on a phone.
• It must carry a photograph.
• Its text must be clearly legible in English.
• If you travel to another country to test, only a valid passport is accepted.

Have three things ready before you start: a College Board account, a photo, and a means of international payment.

The photo rules are strict: whole face visible, you alone in the frame, facing the camera, no shadows or blur. College Board warns separately that a successful upload does not mean the photo passed — and a rejected photo means you will not be allowed to test.

• On test day: a fully charged device with Bluebook installed and exam setup completed.
• Your admission ticket from Bluebook — printed is safer.
• The original physical photo ID.
• Pens or pencils, and a calculator.
• Your College Board username and password — written down, not remembered.

Early-round applicants generally need to be finished testing in the autumn; for regular rounds the December sitting is usually the last dependable chance.

The March, May and June 2027 dates are too late for a Fall 2027 start — they belong to the following year.

Exact deadlines differ by university. We do not print a university deadline here — it changes, and yours may not be the one we saw. Check it on that university’s own site.

Many sites still say the SAT runs five times a year — March, May, August, October, December. That is the paper-era calendar and it no longer exists.

The table above has eight dates and comes from College Board’s own page. Follow the link and see for yourself — you do not have to take our word for it.