Of SATs
In yesterday’s San Francisco Chronicle, syndicated columnist Joan Ryan (you’ve heard of her from me before) wrote about the struggles of a learning-disabled child with the College Board over the SATs. Its all about how the dyslexic, and other unusual young people, are getting dealt with in their attempts to get The Test to tell university admissions directors how much they know, rather than how good they are at The Test. Because, Joan Ryan says, everybody assumes that The Test is there “to assess a student’s actual knowledge and capabilities
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Very interesting...
I think you very well may be right about this... the only thing I can remember about taking the SATs is that it was the first time I ever came thisclose to throwing up... and I actually LOVE taking tests!
There is so much importance placed on this one TEST that it's impossible not to feel completely stressed out over it... and then to find out that it's not even a fair test... pffft...
Why is it still around?
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SAT: The "Windows" of university admissions
Why is it still around?
Same reason Windows is. It's buggy and overpriced, but it's everywhere, it's been around a long time, and everybody's familiar with it or thinks they are. And it's one hell of a lot cheaper for admissions departments to use the SAT as their primary selection device than to wade through all the uninformative interviews, and transcripts rendered useless by grade inflation plus social promotion, and misleading campus visits, and bogus recommendation letters, and application essays purchased off the Internet, and ... and ...