SAT

Prompt 2 I couldn’t have been prouder on the day I scored horribly on the SAT. Not the official one, but a practice one that was taken in a controlled environment. I knew I could have easily scored higher than the meager score I received that day, but that’s not important. It wasn’t the SAT score I was proud of that day, but rather the significant life transformation that also happened that day in Beijing, China. I was always an introverted boy in the past, and it all began when I was eight…

Standardized testing such as the SAT and the ACT is a type of test that is meant to determine how well you understand several academic subjects in order to be admitted into college. These types of test include questions in a form of an essay, short answers, multiple choices, or a combination of these together. This practice has been used for so long that it has become a part of the American culture. Every year, high school juniors and seniors take the SAT or the ACT in the hope that they score…

tests were administrated more broadly. Many of the educators liked standardized tests because of the fact that they evaluate a student’s performance in a more objective and scientific process. Standardized tests have progressed into tests such as; SAT, ACT, HSAP, PSAT, PASS, Compass and many more. Most of these test are extremely different, they do not show a student’s academic level accurately. In 1926,…

because exams such as the SAT, ACT, Iowa Basics, PSAT/NMSQT are weighted too heavily, are not accurate or full representations of a student, and correlative studies have displayed that families with lower income yield children with lower test scores creating an uneven testing terrain in the United States. Standardized tests have become not only greater influences on a child’s future but also more common in a student’s life. According…

unfair, it makes perfect sense. Since colleges have to sort through hundreds of applications this process makes it easier for the board choose who their soon to be freshmen are. It is also important to remember the 1,450 colleges that require an ACT or SAT score; with only 850 where the standardized test is optional. In any event if a student truly want to be accepted into a certain college they need to be prepared to meet the requirement, and this often includes a standardized testing…

Autumn rolls in and the adverts of backpack and pencil sales crop up. The first day of school is upon every student before they know it. New and familiar faces accompanied by awkward greetings and reminiscent small talk. One by one the weeks pass by and “BAM” the hectic preparations for testing has everyone to their knees. Teachers are cramming every ounce of knowledge possible before the big day while students juggled their studies and their own personal lives. The test finally passes and the…

Test such as the ACT and SAT are the main testing source that high schools use to determine a student 's readiness of college. This, in my opinion, is the least important thing of what makes a good high school. "The ACT is an achievement test, measuring what a student has learned in school. The SAT is more of an aptitude test, testing reasoning and verbal abilities. The ACT has up to 5 components: English, Mathematics, Reading, Science, and an optional Writing Test. The SAT has only 3…

into the college of one’s choosing. Though they are expected among most colleges, these standardized tests are poorly justified and present a defective outcome of a student’s intuition. In general, colleges require students to complete the ACT and SAT, conveniently providing a neutral benchmark for all whom they might accept or decline into their school. However, these tests fail to accurately represent students’ intelligence and consequently provide an inadequate score not correlated with the…

doing my research, I figured out that the school that was ranked as the best law school in the nation is the Ivy League university known as Yale. Some of the school’s requirements are to have at least a 4.19 GPA, an ACT score of at least a 33, and a SAT score of 1540. The profession takes about 7-8 years to…

When it comes to education, and what should generally be taught in schools, fine arts classes are consistently on the outermost rim of the educational spectrum. It is either the last to be added, or the first to be dropped in times of budget shortages or altered priorities. Many people believe that government funding of the arts is unnecessary and that funds could be directed elsewhere. Funding for the National Endowment for the Arts has long been a source of political controversy. In recent…