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If there are no special needs involved, there is no such thing as "doesn't test well". What it means is that there is grade inflation at your kids' school, and the national standardized test score reflects his true performance.

You can help with that by paying for test prep and tutoring. I recommend the senior tutors at Prep Matters, but they're incredibly expensive (they did wonders for my son, though - got him from a 28 to a 35). 
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Boy, the College Board really has done a number on you. Standardized tests are not objective. They don’t measure “true performance,” whatever the hell that means. The only thing a standardized test score indicates is how you did on that standardized test. It has no relationship to the grades you get in school or any other measure of success.[/quote]

Sure it does, it was designed to have predictive power and it does, just as grades are predictive of future performance.  The two, in combination, are particularly predictive of college success.[/quote]

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