Hi everyone,
This post isn’t a question; it’s an outreach.
Unfortunately, I have some bad news. whispers The SAT isn’t accurate.
The SAT was designed to predict the success of any given student in a college or university. Please refer to the lists below that accurately depicts what the SAT truly does do, despite its intended purpose.
The SAT DOES:
1.) bring copious amounts of stress on innocent students
2.) take time away from a student’s studies (which should be more important than an SAT)
3.) require unnecessary effort
The SAT does NOT:
1.) predict the success of any given student in a college or university
Every year, students that have perfect or near perfect grade point averages, even while enrolled in advanced placement and/or honors classes, perform poorly on the SAT. Please refer to the brief Q&A below.
Q: Is the poor performance on the SAT the fault of the student?
A: No.
If the designers of the SAT genuinely desired to predict the success of a student in a college or university, then they SHOULD have made the questions on the SAT reasonable. There should not be so many “trick answers” or “tips to avoid trick answers”.
Let’s be real, here. If you’ve taken the SAT, then surely have stumbled upon that one critical reading question that really stumped you. Perhaps it was passage based, and you’ve narrowed the possible answers down to only two options; however, both options seem right. Now, is this hypothetical reading question truly defining the value of your intelligence or education or ability to succeed? Heck, no! All this question is doing is making you stress over a stupid test that doesn’t do its job.
I think I speak for many people when I say that I wish the SAT just didn’t exist. Unfortunately, we may just be stuck with this test’s existence for many more years, so if you get a bad score, don’t beat yourself up. It probably isn’t you; it’s the SAT.
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