<p>@Hunt my point is that the difficulty of the test isn’t derived from the difficulty of the questions. If I were asked any SAT question in a vaccum where I wasn’t being timed, it wasn’t early in the morning, I hadn’t been already taking a test for the past several hours, and I wasn’t being treated like a prisoner, I could easily answer it correctly 99.99999999999999% of the time. So the test isn’t really testing to see what you know or your ability to solve problems, or your ability to function in college. It is merely testing to see how good you are at taking the SAT, and if you don’t like your score there are plenty of ways to essentially pay for a higher one. </p>
<p>That is my biggest issue with the SAT: the fact that you can pay to take it again. If the test was actually a valid assessment of your abilities, then a retake would not only be unnecessary, but would compromise the integrity of this fictions test. As the test stands today, the college board provides you with every incentive to pay them more money to retake the test for a better score. If I recall correctly, they even send you a message WITH YOUR SCORE reminding you of the option and the fact that cows er… Students… Generally get a higher score the second time around. Of course this might all be ignorable if the college board were a legitimate nonprofit entity only there to help you… But that simply can’t be true when the heads of it make so much money.</p>