Four and a half hours. 6 Saturdays a year. Calculators and number two pencils. Over 1.5 million juniors and seniors across the world endure the dreaded SAT. Students don’t take this test to impress themselves or their parents, but to attempt to convince colleges that they are at an academic level where they can successfully learn at that school. One of the most the most stressful tests a scholar can take, the SAT brings back memories of anxiety for many adults. The American Psychological Association’s annual Stress in America survey officially reported “31 percent of teens feeling overwhelmed and another 30 percent feeling sad or depressed as a result of stress. It was revealed that school and school-related activities were to blame.” To the students, they can determine your fate in life. With one second, schools will see a number on a page and determine whether it is good enough. College officials see a number, not a person. Considering that the SAT was created to determine IQ, not academic achievement, is a reflection of socioeconomic status and does not directly relate to success after college, universities
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During World War II, Harvard professor, Robert Yerkes persuaded the army to let him test the IQs of two million recruits. With that data, Carl Bridgham created his own version of the test, for applicants for a scholarship for a college in New York City. Years later, colleges and universities started to require SAT scores to apply. Today, juniors and seniors around the world take this test without question. Standardize testing has become such a customary, that children as young as kindergarteners are taking Common core tests. The SAT was not created to assess one’s academic level, but to determine one’s IQ. Some might argue that the questions have changed to indicate education, but if this test wasn’t created in the first place, then would we have a test like this
During World War II, Harvard professor, Robert Yerkes persuaded the army to let him test the IQs of two million recruits. With that data, Carl Bridgham created his own version of the test, for applicants for a scholarship for a college in New York City. Years later, colleges and universities started to require SAT scores to apply. Today, juniors and seniors around the world take this test without question. Standardize testing has become such a customary, that children as young as kindergarteners are taking Common core tests. The SAT was not created to assess one’s academic level, but to determine one’s IQ. Some might argue that the questions have changed to indicate education, but if this test wasn’t created in the first place, then would we have a test like this