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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 kids are ready to memorize in similar patterns more mindless content.

I never graduated high school - yet I have a college degree from a prestigious school. I was a gifted child, born to speed through college at an unprecedented rate. Yet, no one knew this until I was out of college because standard exams cannot locate genius.

People learn by touch, by sound, by feeling and by sight. Yet SAT and all their study programs only work with sight and wrote memorization. So how can an exam missing 3/4 of the basic learning functions be considered a standard for college acceptance? Because, college in itself is lacking structure. No more are the days of learning in the classroom - yet tenured teachers persist in such a structured method. College needs to expand past text books and standard exams and begin to utilize all aspect of learning and advancement.

From personal experience and those of my colleagues, nothing can be found in one simple test nor two. It requires multiple exams aimed at various parts of the human psyche to determine what level a person is at.

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