SAT

The Problem with the SAT Every day, students across the United States and beyond prepare for the SAT. These unfortunate students spend countless hours and dollars in the hopes of maximizing their scores and their futures. The SAT was designed to test a student’s academic knowledge and performance, but fails to do so today. Its credibility as an academic benchmark should be acknowledged, but the test should not be valued so highly. The SAT is far from perfect, yet high schools and colleges place…

e Essay Your Future Depends on ACT and SAT Scores It's your senior year in high school, you're at the top of the school and have one year left before leaving home. Enjoying your last year, but there is still a thought in the back of your mind. It’s your ACT and SAT scores. ACT and SAT scores are the main concepts that get you into college. If you get a low score you could be rejected or if you get a high school you could get several offers from different colleges and scholarships. College…

AMERICA- Fourteen test days for the 2017-2018 school year; six remaining for the SAT and seven for the ACT. According to the College Board, 1.36 million test-takers took the redesigned SAT in 2016. According to the 2016 ACT National Profile Report, 2,090,342 took the ACT test. The SAT and ACT according to PrepScholar, a well-known website created by Harvard Alums is designed to help students with college admissions, states, “....a standardized test meant to show schools how prepared you are for…

dramatic, but in truth it can. The SATs determine if colleges accept a student. Understandably it is a well-known and respectable tool for determining a student’s eligibility. However, judging if a student is a perfect candidate based mainly on their scores is an outrageous concept. In that case the SAT should be completely eliminated since some students are not good test takers and the test is not broad enough to properly assess intelligence. Completely ridding the SATs as an element of being…

Should the SATs be Eliminated? All of the United States students prepare themselves for the scholastic aptitude test that can alter your life. It may sound dramatic, but in truth it can. The SATs determine if colleges accept a student. Understandably it is a well-known and respectable tool for determining a student’s eligibility. However, judging if a student is a perfect candidate based mainly on their scores is an outrageous concept. In that case the SAT should be completely eliminated…

the SAT and ACT. Getting up early with their Ticonderoga pencils and calculators is nothing but stressful. The college process alone is difficult and stressful, and the SAT and ACT only makes it worse. A majority of colleges and universities in the U.S require students to take the ACT or SAT for college admission purposes. According to the New York Times, “1,666,017 students took the ACT last year; 1,664,479 took the SAT”. College admissions are getting more competitive as years go on and SAT…

Professor Matuszewski English 101 7 March 2017 The SAT The SAT is a test of student’s academic skills, used for admission to United States colleges. The SAT tests a student’s knowledge of reading, writing, and math, subjects that are taught every day in high school classrooms. Most students take the SAT during their junior or senior year of high school, and almost all colleges and universities use the SAT to make admission decisions. The idea behind this test is to provide colleges…

After reading, “SATs Help Colleges Make Smarter Admissions Call” by Gaston Caperton. I found the article to be biased in favor of the SATs. Considering the author is the president of College Board, which owns and develops the SAT, his writing obviously contains bias, and maybe the reason why the article had a one-sided perspective, that offered little to any factual evidence to strengthen his claim. If I had to rate the author’s bias out of 10, I would give him a 2/10, because of his credentials…

of stress is from all the standardized testing taking that is required as an upperclassman. The SAT is a very common test that almost all college students took and then submitted their scores to colleges. There is too much pressure to test high so being accepted into college will be easier, but does it really matter? Is the SAT still important? The Scholastic Aptitude Test or better known as the SAT has been around since the Roaring Twenties. Although it has been criticized to be a disadvantage…

A problem with standardized testing, such as the ACT and the SAT, is that anyone can learn how to take a multiple choice test without having to learn the materials related to the test question. For example, a student took a class teaching them how to look at the wording of the question for hints or clues to what is being asked, decide which answer choices make the most sense, and then eliminate the questions they feel are not correct. Therefore, eliminating the possibility to be creative and use…