<p>Gon’ hate!</p>
<p>This thread is still going on?</p>
<p>Duh debate are lasting. You can still debate whether the earth really is the center of the universe</p>
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<p>You Lie!</p>
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<p>^ someone need a period and a ton of spaces for the ten character limit</p>
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<p>“You Lie!”</p>
<p>I don’t. Add long as people continue to “believe” there will always be debate. Most of us would accept that gravity is mass pulling on other objects but some might say something more foolish like a cabal of ghost pushing down on us.</p>
<p>yawn…</p>
<p>Can we let this thread sink into oblivion</p>
<p>I feel good since I already took it.</p>
<p>Nope people still want to say how they feel about the tests.</p>
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<p>I think the tests do a great job of testing the students’ ability to take standardized tests…other than that, they are really pointless.
For example, I go to an international school that is full of <em>really</em> smart kids, but because they aren’t trained to take standardized tests, the student who scores above a 2000 is rare here. I did only because I went to an American school for most of my education and have been taking tests such as the CMT, CAPT, etc all my life</p>
<p>Yes! I felt more prepared for the SATs because all of the CMTs and CAPT tests are very similar to the kinds of questions on it!</p>
<p>@kypdurron It will go on no matter what you think. As long as others share the same disposition as I, this debate will always be alive!</p>
<p>Personally, I feel like the SAT has nothing to do with intelligence. I mean, to a certain degree, you have to be capable of let’s say, a 2400. But anyone who works hard enough has a pretty good shot at a 2400.</p>
<p>I know I’ve posted before, but I’d like to reiterate how much the ACT in particular sucks.</p>
<p>I took it and the score does not, imo, accurately reflect a thing. That’s all.</p>
<p>If I have not study for the SAT or ACT and had not taken the PSAT, then my score would have been like 1400/20. With studying it is 1500-1700 and 24-28. I’m just guessing here btw. Now for a Pre-cal finals without studying I could get a 95 and with studying I could get a 100.
The SAT have nothing to do with intelligent, it is basically how much you study… And that is a flaw. How do you effectively “study” for math? By looking over problems and memorizing how to do them? The math section isn’t really based on knowledge, it is based on memory and some people like myself can’t “remember” that fast. Except for those problems that say solve for x (no triangle).</p>
<p>“Now for a Pre-cal finals without studying I could get a 95 and with studying I could get a 100.”</p>
<p>Realize that many high schools have intense grade inflation and your high school grades probably don’t indicate much about your intelligence either, except maybe as a comparison to the other kids in your school. And most people do study for their finals and it’s considered normal. Studying isn’t cheating. </p>
<p>“By looking over problems and memorizing how to do them?”</p>
<p>No, by learning how to think about problems correctly. Learning different strategies and such. If you have to memorize everything in math, you’re probably doing it wrong.</p>
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<p>It’s not really based on memory at all. It’s based on reasoning more than anything else. I actually like the SAT math section; it’s more problem-solving oriented than the ACT in my opinion.</p>
<p>You shouldn’t have to memorize how to do the problems on the SAT math, because you should already know how to do them if you are in precalculus. They are based on concepts from pre-algebra to algebra 2.</p>
<p>Don’t get me wrong, I think there are a lot of problems with the SAT, and I don’t think it accurately reflects how one will do in college. Two out of the three sections can be very easily mastered with a certain degree of prior knowledge and some outside effort and the other section can be mastered through brute memorization, but we have to live with it for now.</p>