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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think that they can be useful in predicting college success, but if we’re going to mandate it back, we must apply it more responsibly so that all prospective students are given a fair shot.

1.  Limit attempts to two.  I remember taking that thing twice then my mom said, “that’s good enough, that should get you into Davis or something.  I’m not gonna keep paying 70-100 bucks for that thing.”  I read somewhere that the average Ivy admit takes that thing on average 5x.  How is that even impressive?  At that point they’re just remembering the test structure and some of the questions.  That doesn’t capture what they really know or predict future college success.

2.  Either people should get docked for taking expensive SAT prep courses, or make them available to everyone free of charge.  If we’re really testing what people have learned, test them, not whatever they learned from some SAT expert.

3. The reading portion is too culturally bias; they need to make it more universal.

4. There should be a small portion where it captures IQ score (this might be controversial).  [/quote]

1. You forgot to get rid of superscoring.

2. Can actually do all the test prep you need online for free.

3. There's no cultural bias that hinders testing. Asian-Americans and East Asians in Asia don't seem to have any trouble.

4. It should be more than a little IQ score for the verbal section. Or just go back to the 1990 verbal section.

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5. Math should go up to precalc at least

[b]6. Any accommodation on the test should require some notation. Doesn't have to say what the accommodation is. [/b]

Yes. Time to get rid of the "extra time on the ACT" hack.
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