<p>^ Is anything that even whispers of measuring an innate mental capacity considered “elitist”? While this only reinforces the tyranny of our DNA, I think it’s legitimate for such a characteristic to be a criteria in the college admissions game.</p>
<p>Only in America do we live have this fiction of natural equality.</p>
<p>I completely agree with GeoffreyChaucer. I don’t think “elitist” is the right term for the SAT and anyway they certainly have every right to test our natural capability.</p>
<p>all right, i guess elitist was the wrong word…what i was looking for was more along the lines of “prestigious” or something…ACT seems like everyone takes, whereas SAT mostly those applying to top schools take</p>
<p>That I agree with, but I’m not sure if that’s just because I live in the Midwest where the ACT is more popular</p>
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<p>Not really; search cc for many threads on this issue. ACT Reading is a whole like the CR – both contain miserable, booooorrrrring passages. Math is math – SAT math contains more reasoning, but ACT requries higher-level math (trig vs. Alg II). But, the ACT science is their version of reasoning, since no science knowledge is required. English and sentence construction is not much different – idioms are idioms, comma splices are comma splices, run-ons are run-ons… Thus, the main differences are: Math reasoning (SAT) and speed (ACT).</p>
<p>The vast majority of kids do equally well (or poor) on both tests. However, some kids do better on one than the other. A person with strong reasoning ability is likely to do ‘better’ on the SAT since its math is a lot of reasonsing, and 50% of the CR/M score.</p>
<p>from my understanding, the ACT and SAT test completely different things…the ACT is something you can prepare for, as it tests the knowledge that you’ve accumulated…on the other hand, the SAT is looking at things like critical thinking and logic skills – each has their own benefits, and i’m assuming that one will suit each student better than the other…in my case, i did better on the SAT than ACT and i think its because of my study habits and the fact that i test better on abstract things rather than straight informational type questions</p>
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<p>The common wisdom is that the ACT is more curriculum-based, but I think it is incorrect for the reasons stated in my post #25.</p>