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I cannot help but wonder where American citizens, especially teachers in public education, have gotten the idea that the SAT should be a deciding factor in college admission dec...read more
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by Ian Navas
First, let's look at what the SAT is designed to measure. An aptitude test as defined in the dictionary, is supposed to measure or predict a person's ability to learn certain s...read more
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The SAT is a skewed test. In the first place, it does not test for knowledge, it estimates intelligence. It is based on standard IQ tests. The SAT is nothing but a long annoy...read more
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College entrance exams are good in theory. If a school wishes to maintain a certain standard, there must be a way to qualify and quantify this. Exam scores are, by their nature,...read more
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by Ryan Gordon
The SAT is a flawed representation of an individual's probability of success in higher learning. What if you are an individual who has a 4.0 grade point average, is class presid...read more
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by Sparx
The SAT is a standardized test designed to get standardized results. If you are someone who is exceptional in Art, how will your score for English determine how well you might d...read more
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by Vicki Brown
I am living proof that the SATs should not be used to determine admission to college. I was a good student in high school. I was on the honor roll and my grades were As and Bs. ...read more
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The SAT tests "basic" concepts and knowledge that are "supposed" to have been taught in the K-12 education system. Sadly, there are too many outside influencing factors that can...read more
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by Susan Powell
Should the S.A.T. be abolished for college admissions decisions? Absolutely. Standardized tests don't accurately show what students may know. Some students, although accommoda...read more
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by Ron Mills
I took my SAT's in 1970, a actually you didn't need a great score to get into college at that time. I already had an agenda when it came to college, girls and football. I had no...read more
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by Cindy Wilson
While the S.A.T. is an accurate assessment of knowledge obtained by some students throughout their school years, it is not accurate for all. Furthermore, when students enter co...read more
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hello i am a student getting ready to go off to college. you ask if this test should be abolished and i think that it should. if you look at statistics, a lot of kids are not ...read more
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by BuildWith
One test that proves all! Sounds kind of funny, right, almost like saying guaranteed to make money! The SAT test is a basic test that does nothing more than prove that these kid...read more
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by Julie Bruce
Yes, the S.A.T. should be abolished altogether or at least given less consideration than other more telling numbers, such as the GPA. It is my belief that a one time biased test...read more
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by S. J.
Speaking as a fairly recent high school graduate (2005), I can say that the SAT did nothing to prepare me for my years in college. I did not learn anything of value, nothing tha...read more
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Whites and Asians, because of their background, are unfairly favored in the SAT. Rich people are able to get their children tutored, and this unfairly increases their scores. Th...read more
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SAT is highly inaccurate way of testing students. Being a sixteen year old junior, I have recently taken the SAT, twice actually. I took it the first time, and scored pretty w...read more
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Should SAT scores be abolished from college admissions? No. Should their place in the admission process be reconsidered and minimized? Yes. I once read a quote that said (mor...read more
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By no means is the SAT a perfect test. Students who do poorly on the SAT often do well in college and vice versa. One's score on the SAT does not indicate future potential nor d...read more
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by Jim Mcfalls
The SATs should not be abolished for college admission decisions. Although I believe that they are currently over-utilized as a determining factor for acceptance, they can serve...read more
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The S.A.T. is used as a basis for college admission for a reason. Well, actually for several reasons. The first is that is a rather good way to find out if a potential colleg...read more
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by Me-
There seems to be a trend towards not wanting to measure anyone or anything. This, in my opinion, is just ridiculous. The SAT experience for most high school students is a very ...read more
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by Fubar
We need to KEEP ADMISSION TESTING. No matter what your native language, your race, religion or country of origin, if you are attempting to enroll for college studies there be ...read more
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Abolishing the SAT- sometimes, believe it or not, there is a reason for a system. Don't get me wrong, I am not on any level saying that the system is not flawed, but the SAT's ...read more
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by Roger Morse
It would be a crime to abolish the SAT's. While college admissions boards look broadly at each individual applicant, the SAT scores remain a standard of academic ability. Grante...read more
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by T. M. Beeker
The SAT when used as part of admissions process does an excellent job of providing colleges with the academic potential of students. The important factor being use of the test a...read more
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The S.A.T. should NOT be abolished for college admissions decisions. It should however be taken with a grain of salt. The S.A.T. is many times an accurate assessment of a stu...read more
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by Timothy Lee
If you consider the absurd number of people in the United States, much less the entire college age world, it must be considered that the SAT is a useful tool for admissions offi...read more
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You stretch, yawn and wake up early one Saturday morning. Your parents are hovering. They try to feed you coffee, vitamins and cereal so that you can "focus." You grab four c...read more
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by Carol Levy
I know that the SAT has changed substantially since I went to college in 1970. I recently read a book written by a former Yale admissions officer. She spoke about the change...read more
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Who is going to abolish it? The government? some Universal Board of People In Charge of Admissions to All Colleges. Obviously, no such board exists. "abolish" is an awfully ...read more
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The biggest problem with the education system in society today is way too many "tests" are given. I use that word lightly. There can be lots of factors in how somebody does on t...read more
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Some standardized test results should always inform decision-making. Here in Britain we rely on non-standardized subject exam results and "interviews" which is probably why our...read more
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The SAT should not be abolished for a number of reasons. The most basic of these reasons is that the SAT (and ACT) is far more difficult to successfully cheat than many "compre...read more
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by Dorian Wales
The immediate and intuitive reply to this question is often "Yes, of course, Why shouldn't everyone be entitled to attend the college of their choice". The Reality, however, is ...read more
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I don't agree in totally abolishing S.A.T.'s for college admissions. These tests are used by colleges to maintain their level of educational standards. However, these test shoul...read more
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No, no and, no. My proof, there are colleges out there that don't ask for a SAT or even an ACT, but yet the students graduate and become successful. Sure a test can show that yo...read more
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