SAT Subject Tests

The current American educational system incorporates a method of evaluation known to every student as the dreaded standardized test. These tests range from state evaluations of grade levels to the ACT and SAT. The purpose of these tests is to fairly evaluate the performance of students and have comparable data. After tests are taken, data is grouped according to states, schools, race, gender, and other categories to compare student’s academic performance. While many claim that standardized…

AMERICA- Fourteen test days for the 2017-2018 school year; six remaining for the SAT and seven for the ACT. According to the College Board, 1.36 million test-takers took the redesigned SAT in 2016. According to the 2016 ACT National Profile Report, 2,090,342 took the ACT test. The SAT and ACT according to PrepScholar, a well-known website created by Harvard Alums is designed to help students with college admissions, states, “....a standardized test meant to show schools how prepared you are for…

schools have now changed their entire curriculum to teach these standardized tests and pay their teachers based on the results. Nonetheless, the public school system needs reforming in a way that professors teach students more than what the test curriculums assesses them on by adding other essential information into their lessons, teachers need a just payment on how they teach in the classroom rather than on the test results, and the calculation of a school’s compensation shouldn’t be…

from the things she enjoyed most, like her academics or her leadership roles in the community. The speakers at the program told Jozina everything she should do to get ready for college: develop a list of potential colleges and universities, take the SAT or ACT or both, apply to the colleges Early Action or Early Decision, and then make sure you take every scholarship opportunity you can. The list piled up, and Jozina felt buried in worry about everything she had to accomplish in a short amount…

is considered. In this essay, I will prove that high school education is becoming useless by not preparing students for standardized end of course exams, SAT and ACT tests to get into college, and not preparing students for…

ACT Test prevalence Since the ACT is mainly used for measuring readiness for first year college preparatory courses, it doesn 't necessarily measure how ready a student is for higher level courses. The ACT tests, as defined by “Data on Student Preparation, College Readiness, and Achievement in College,” “seek to predict how current students will perform in courses commonly taken by new college students”. Instead of measuring how well you will do in learning and storing the information in…

Decline in SAT Scores The SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) was first introduced to American schools in 1901. Since then the SAT has become a requirement for college acceptance. Therefore the number of students taking the test has increased. Did you know that roughly 6 in 10 college-bound high school students who took the test were lacking so much in their reading, writing, and math skills, they were unprepared for college-level work? (College) Some see the decline in SAT scores as an issue that…

themselves for the scholastic aptitude test that can alter your life. It may sound dramatic, but in truth it can. The SATs determine if colleges accept a student. Understandably it is a well-known and respectable tool for determining a student’s eligibility. However, judging if a student is a perfect candidate based mainly on their scores is an outrageous concept. In that case the SAT should be completely eliminated since some students are not good test takers and the test is not broad enough to…

used today. It is a test student’s take to get into college, and is a requirement in most high schools to take before the students graduate. It is used to test what students have learned in high school and see what their potential is in the future. However, I think that the ACT test is unnecessary to take for college. As a result of ACT score requirements, many students with academic excellence are restricted, and are not allowed to attend college because of their feeble test taking skills.…

The Problem with the SAT Every day, students across the United States and beyond prepare for the SAT. These unfortunate students spend countless hours and dollars in the hopes of maximizing their scores and their futures. The SAT was designed to test a student’s academic knowledge and performance, but fails to do so today. Its credibility as an academic benchmark should be acknowledged, but the test should not be valued so highly. The SAT is far from perfect, yet high schools and colleges place…