Informative Essay On The Sats

Along with not determining true college success, the SATs are an inaccurate way of testing academic knowledge or personality. The SATs have ten sections, and each of these sections is timed by 25, 20, and 10 minute intervals. What if a student reads slowly and cannot finish the reading section in 25 minutes? What if a student has trouble figuring out a math problem and does not have enough time to finish it? What if a student’s test anxiety interferes with his or her progress? Their scores are affected by these problems and could potentially have a lower score than expected. This number is supposed to prove their knowledge and skill to a college that they wish to attend. That student could have very high grades even when taking in challenging …show more content…
Additionally, according to Brandon Busteed (2015), “...each person’s success is best determined by how well they leverage their unique talents on a daily basis. Not by trying to be the same as others…”. Many factors can be left out by simply examining numbers when learning about a student. No number can show dedication, integrity, and perseverance. Along with this, there are large amounts of stress that are caused through the SAT. Many students stress out about reaching a certain score and are often too hard on themselves. There have been cases of cheating on the SAT where people will hire someone to test for them, because they need to reach a certain number. Such as an instance in Long Island, New York in 2011 (Saffier, 2015). High School students hired and payed different college students to take their tests for them (Saffier, 2015). They would use fake IDs to get into the door and charged up to 3,600 dollars per test (Saffier, 2015). These students were promised a perfect score and decided that they would pay any price for a certain