Argumentative Essay On The SAT

The Scholastic Aptitude Test or better known as just the SAT is a test that in high school that is a placement test for college. This test was not only used to place students into certain course once they enter college but it is also used to rate the schools themselves. Based on how the students did on the test at my high school, that would predict the next year by minor ways of getting to take a day off after the test is finished or bigger things like adding a course to teach us how to take the SAT itself. This standardized test the SAT is not constructive in my opinion there is little to no improvement, it only test a small portion of knowledge, and the points question are not memorable.
My junior year in high school consisted of five class periods. I had English, a Math course, physical education, chemistry, and a study hall. The study hall was not a regular study hall class however each week the junior class made rounds to five different teachers and each teacher gave a lesson on taking a portion of the SAT test, one teacher only taught how to take the test itself. This went on for a little more than half of the school year, until we took the SAT. This was all …show more content…
These tests are supposed to be able to test the knowledge of a person but in my opinion this idea is faulty. I think that any test is guilty of this unless there is a question for every single thing a person has learned over their whole school career. I have been in this situation more times than I would like to be, I am taking a test and there is a question that I do not know the answer too but in that time that I am trying to think of an answer the only thing that comes to my mind is all of these questions and answers to them that I do know. This thought process then does not help to solve the question that is being asked from this