Imagine you were the so-called “perfect” student. You got A’s on every assignment, you were top of the class, and you understood concepts perfectly. Then, imagine not getting into the your perfect college, only getting accepted into colleges that did not correspond with your academic level. You got beat out to an unworthy student who never turned in an assignment a day in his life, but, who just so happened to get a better SAT score than you. Most students would be devastated; unfortunately this scenario is exactly what happens to many students who take the SAT. With that in mind, one may have to question if the SAT is a precise measurement of a student’s ability to be successful in college. Students are built of more than just their SAT scores.
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More exact forms of predicting a student’s grades include using high school class rank and high school grade point averages. Taking this into account, Source D states that, “...high school grade-point averages…as opposed to general aptitude as supposedly measured by the SAT--- correlate more highly with freshman grade-point averages than does the SAT”. High school grades represent how well a student may have done over the course of their whole high school academic year, just as college grades represent how well a student may have done over the course of their whole college academic year. Consequently, the SAT is not able to represent a college freshman’s grades as accurately since both high school and college mimic one another, unlike the SAT which only tests certain aspects of a student’s intelligence. Along with predicticting first-year grades in college, “...females on average score 35-40 points lower than males on the SAT I, but receive better high school and college grades” (Source G). The SAT is not able to predict the how well a student may do in college, seeing that females tended to do better in college, grade-wise, than males, who scored higher than them on the SAT. Other forms of predicting first-year college student’s grades, such as high school class rank and high school grades, are more accurate than the
More exact forms of predicting a student’s grades include using high school class rank and high school grade point averages. Taking this into account, Source D states that, “...high school grade-point averages…as opposed to general aptitude as supposedly measured by the SAT--- correlate more highly with freshman grade-point averages than does the SAT”. High school grades represent how well a student may have done over the course of their whole high school academic year, just as college grades represent how well a student may have done over the course of their whole college academic year. Consequently, the SAT is not able to represent a college freshman’s grades as accurately since both high school and college mimic one another, unlike the SAT which only tests certain aspects of a student’s intelligence. Along with predicticting first-year grades in college, “...females on average score 35-40 points lower than males on the SAT I, but receive better high school and college grades” (Source G). The SAT is not able to predict the how well a student may do in college, seeing that females tended to do better in college, grade-wise, than males, who scored higher than them on the SAT. Other forms of predicting first-year college student’s grades, such as high school class rank and high school grades, are more accurate than the