Accolade. Protean. Soliloquy. All these words are part of the SAT’s scholarly vocabulary. Respectively they have the simple meanings of praise, something changeable and monologue. Well, for a period of three months I had to convince my brain to instinctively substitute words from the everyday language with the so called academic vocabulary of the SAT exam. I had to go through many terms that I had never heard and learn their correct pronunciation and meaning. It was really challenging. More than once I thought of leaving everything behind and not taking the test, but every single time my strong desire to continue my studies in an American university made me reconsider my decision. The long nights I passed in my bedroom with the thick book that
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This test is one of the main requirements for admission in many universities around the world, especially in the American ones. Being an American university, AUBG used to have SAT as a requirement for applicants to become part of it until three years ago. With the approval of the Board of Trustees, on October 2014, it was taken the decision to exclude SAT from the admissions requirements for future students. Three years have passed since then, but the decision to the SAT requirement still remains a questionable because the effects of that decision still are not clear and can be interpreted differently. Although the decision to eliminate the SAT as a requirement for admissions may result in a greater number of students, this decision should be reversed because it would lead to the decline of the quality of potential …show more content…
Compared to the TOEFL exam, the SAT provides participants with a higher quality of knowledge. The sections of the SAT are more comprehensive and include questions that are more effort requiring, so a high score in the test is a reflection of a hard word and of sophisticated logical skills. Since the three sections are specialized in different fields, it is easier for students to gain some general knowledge. The range of new words that a student has to memorize while studying for the SAT actually prepares them for the advanced academic language used in the university books. The writing section, Critical Thinking texts and the logical and algebraic problems in the Math sections refine the participants’ logical skills which will be crucial for his or her academic progress. In contrast, the TOEFL exam has much simpler questions which make the students focus more in memorizing theoretical assumptions rather that practically use them. Logical and improvising abilities are not tested or improved. When taking the TOEFL exam, one has only to stick to the rule that during that exam one only has to use your memory to find synonyms or remember a five minutes long lecture, and then answer questions for any randomly chosen sentence of what was heard. The SAT is a much more convenient exam to be taken from students because during the preparation process for the exam students acquire
This test is one of the main requirements for admission in many universities around the world, especially in the American ones. Being an American university, AUBG used to have SAT as a requirement for applicants to become part of it until three years ago. With the approval of the Board of Trustees, on October 2014, it was taken the decision to exclude SAT from the admissions requirements for future students. Three years have passed since then, but the decision to the SAT requirement still remains a questionable because the effects of that decision still are not clear and can be interpreted differently. Although the decision to eliminate the SAT as a requirement for admissions may result in a greater number of students, this decision should be reversed because it would lead to the decline of the quality of potential …show more content…
Compared to the TOEFL exam, the SAT provides participants with a higher quality of knowledge. The sections of the SAT are more comprehensive and include questions that are more effort requiring, so a high score in the test is a reflection of a hard word and of sophisticated logical skills. Since the three sections are specialized in different fields, it is easier for students to gain some general knowledge. The range of new words that a student has to memorize while studying for the SAT actually prepares them for the advanced academic language used in the university books. The writing section, Critical Thinking texts and the logical and algebraic problems in the Math sections refine the participants’ logical skills which will be crucial for his or her academic progress. In contrast, the TOEFL exam has much simpler questions which make the students focus more in memorizing theoretical assumptions rather that practically use them. Logical and improvising abilities are not tested or improved. When taking the TOEFL exam, one has only to stick to the rule that during that exam one only has to use your memory to find synonyms or remember a five minutes long lecture, and then answer questions for any randomly chosen sentence of what was heard. The SAT is a much more convenient exam to be taken from students because during the preparation process for the exam students acquire