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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The college board should extend the time for EVERYONE. That will remove the processing speed gaming  and truly test the knowledge. [/quote]

except ... the WHOLE POINT IS TESTING PROCESSING SPEED.  save your arguments for the colleges -- let them figure out admissions standards that go beyond processing speed.  and stop denying that processing speed is not one important component of ability for some kinds of achievement.  [/quote]

No. The test is not to test speed. The point is to see if somebody has learned enough in 17 years to attend a college. [/quote]

The point is to see who’s smarter. [/quote]

correct, and processing speed is one component of cognitive ability.

I fully agree that it's not the ONLY component.  but it's one.  [/quote]

I’d say it’s a fairly important component in most jobs.[/quote]

People who speed through work are not an advantage. A study showed that slower workers are actually better at seeing the big picture and while it may take them longer their work product is better.

This is in relation to scientist and engineers.

Dyslexic learners are also slow but better at many things.

It would be very detrimental to a work place to not know that. [/quote]

You’re right.

Slow and wrong is bad

Slow and right is better

Fast and wrong is bad

Fast and right is best [/quote]

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