Plenty of high school students dread taking college entrance exams, such as the SAT and ACT. But other students avoid taking it altogether, maybe put off by the 60 dollar price tag on those tests. 

New research shows that when high schools offer the tests for free, there's significant increase in the number of students that take it and who wind up in enrolled at universities.

Now a growing number of California schools are hoping to do just that. In the 2016-2017 school year, 22 California school districts offered the SAT for free - a big difference from just two years before, when only four districts offered the exam for free. 

One of these districts is Covina-Valley Unified District, which started doing this two years ago. 

Take Two spoke with Richard Sheehan, superintendent of Covina-Valley Unified School District.

“We are truly trying to create a college and career-going culture, and so this just provides the students another avenue to make the colleges and universities more accessible to them," he said.