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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 carefully laid out Number 2 pencils (because with all the technological advances in the world that machine can only read Number 2 pencils), some snacks, your favorite sweatshirt and you run out the door. After four months of studying in boring after school classes to up your score, the big day has finally arrived. It's the day of the SAT.

This is the test that can determine your entire college career. If you score a 1600, a perfect score, you will be elevated to a scholastic prodigy with the ability to sail pass picky admissions directors into the college of your choice. If you score poorly, you'd better hope you have good grades, or that Ivy League position you've been wanting will slip stealthily away. It's a right of passage, a measuring device, and, to some, a monster.

Some might believe that the SAT is not a fair assessment, but this is an inaccurate assumption. The test is tailored for students with learning disabilities, and it is carefully monitored by proctors. For students who attended a mediocre school, the test can be a way of demonstrating abilities that a report card wouldn't reflect. Students who have a difficult time with standardized testing can take classes to up scores, and they can offset lower test scores by making good grades.

The SAT has always been a way of assessing a student's aptitude for entry into institutions of higher learning. It is a way for colleges to assess another area of a person that they have never met. They consider students' admissions essays, grades, extra-curricular activities and SAT scores. It takes a pretty bright student to score a 1600 on the SAT. This test has the ability to show a school another aspect of the student, and it should not be taken away because it allows institutions of higher learning a way of measuring a student's aptitude objectively.

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