joining us live now is maddie steiner, senior director at compass education group. that's a test prep service based in marin county, maddie, thanks for your time. >> thank you so much for having me. all right, so this changed. >> going digital is not new, but it's been in the works for quite some time. but i think tomorrow is the big day. what was the rationale for this change. >> so this was really about bringing college board signature product into the 21st century. we've had paper based assessments forever in a day, and there have been other assessments like in the form of the gre and the gmat, graduate school exams that they found have been far more efficient to administer, shorter and generally just more user friendly for students. so that's what impelled, i think, the original intent for redesigning the test. >> all right. so tell us about some of the big differences for test takers. obviously no more pen and pencil, but what else? >> yeah, i think probably the biggest win for students is the fact that the assessment is so much more abbreviated. so it used to b