Many individuals have been wondering if the overall statistic of students who live in more affluent neighborhoods will perform better on their SAT test than those who live in a lower income neighborhood. SAT stands for Scholastic Aptitude Test, which is designed in order to test a high schooler's knowledge. This exam is widely used as a college admission test that tests your knowledge of reading, writing and math, the core that students receive education in their high school career. While many people believe that this test favors certain groups of kids, it is allowing the board to take a look back at what exactly the students are being tested on and how exactly they will propose, either a change to the test or state how their test doesn't demonstrate
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An adjustment the college board has recently made to their test is the vocabulary that is being used on the test. It is believed that this will change the outcomes from the exam and make it fairer for all different types of families (Goldfarb 1). As being the audience that is reading this it allows you to take on the perspective and see how exactly it could affect someone if they didn't have the vocabulary to understand the more developed words as people who hadn’t been familiar with advanced vocabulary. This could be due to the fact that they don't have a family at home that pushes them to use strong words of the language they spoken at home is not the language they receive instruction at school in. With speaking a different language at home, it affects their overall strength on the language they speak at school. It is also said to be that those that have a parent at home who has received a college degree are also more likely to score higher on the SAT test. If a parent has a college degree, it affects the vocabulary spoken in the home is likely to be more advance if they have gone through college (Goldfarb 1). It also has been stated many times that parents who have a college degree, kids will have a higher chance of attending
An adjustment the college board has recently made to their test is the vocabulary that is being used on the test. It is believed that this will change the outcomes from the exam and make it fairer for all different types of families (Goldfarb 1). As being the audience that is reading this it allows you to take on the perspective and see how exactly it could affect someone if they didn't have the vocabulary to understand the more developed words as people who hadn’t been familiar with advanced vocabulary. This could be due to the fact that they don't have a family at home that pushes them to use strong words of the language they spoken at home is not the language they receive instruction at school in. With speaking a different language at home, it affects their overall strength on the language they speak at school. It is also said to be that those that have a parent at home who has received a college degree are also more likely to score higher on the SAT test. If a parent has a college degree, it affects the vocabulary spoken in the home is likely to be more advance if they have gone through college (Goldfarb 1). It also has been stated many times that parents who have a college degree, kids will have a higher chance of attending