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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The SAT is a really bad test. It’s almost designed to support the SAT prep industry. My kid was sick when his school gave the PSAT junior year. There were no options to take it sophomore year or earlier in our area. He took the SAT instead later that year. Did OK at 1400 but scored very low in the verbal section. He did an online prep course and scored 1570 the next time. No super-score etc.

He mentioned that you have to learn the pattern of poorly constructed and poorly worded questions. He also mentioned that he was sure several math problems were Calculus based and wouldn’t have found them easy if he hadn’t just studied for the AP Calc BC exam.

We need a better test.[/quote]
This is just ridiculous. We know kids that got 1500+ PSAT in 10th grade with no prep except a practice test or two, and SAT 1600 or very close to it soon after. This is not a difficult test for public school kids with a functioning brain that have read classic literature and have mastered algebra, geometry, and trig by actually reading the textbooks. The verbal is basically a harder TOEFL test and math before calculus should be intuitive. So many kids 30 years ago would have crushed the current version of the test.[/quote]

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