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to take preparatory classes like those offered by Sylvan Learning Centers or Kaplan Test Prep in order to boost their scores on test day. The students that most need this supplementary help, those students in the inner-city, are unable to attend these classes due to a lack of resources.

Colleges look at these SAT, ACT, and PSAT scores when they determine admission eligibility. Those students with good scores are admitted and those who scored poorly are not. In this way, the minority students in the inner-city are weeded out based on their test scores. This is not to say that the children attending classes in the better districts are somehow unworthy of admission; that is not true at all. It is simply that the system constructed is currently unfair to minority students in the inner-city that lack resources and a good school system, and neither circumstance is the fault of these students directly yet they pay the price by not being accepted into (good) colleges and the statistics detailing earning potential and quality of life of high school graduates and college graduates are simply indisputable.

Because of this, standardized tests are seen to be the last bastion of racism in the American education system. The system of standardized testing needs either to be abolished or severely renovated in order to even out the playing field for American students.

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