Do overseas universities require or place value on NBT's?
The NBT’s are only relevant when applying to South African universities and international universities will not ask you for your score, but they may require that you take a different test, such as the SAT.
Although they are both multiple choice and test similar topics, the way that the questions are asked is considerably different. There is also a mismatch between the content that you would need to cover for each of the tests. The SAT assumes that you have been through the American schooling system, whereas the NBT’s assume that you have been through the South African one. As a South African student, you would need to cover additional content to close the gap.
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