In a first, U.S. students will take the SAT entirely online (no pencils required)

The SAT, a college admissions exam that for nearly a century was completed using paper and pencil, is now officially all-digital.

The revamped test, which ditches the paper and pencil, aims to make cheating harder and grading easier."Today's students, they do a lot of their living digitally, they do a lot of their learning digitally and they do a lot of their test taking digitally," says Priscilla Rodriguez, who oversees the SAT for the College Board, the organization behind the test.

Students will take the digital exam on Bluebook, an app that was built in-house by the College Board. Schools were given time ahead of testing dates to download the app onto their devices. Internet access is key to start the test, though Rodriquez says it requires very little bandwidth during the test and is designed to autosave locally, so students won't lose work or time if they lose their internet connection.

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