Reply to University Of California Reaches Final Decision: No More Standardized Admission Testing

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "University Of California Reaches Final Decision: No More Standardized Admission Testing"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can prep the heck out of these test and score well.  Any parent with multiple kids knows which ones are academically inclined and which are more challenged.   Yet my own were all able to score well on these standardized tests.  One without much prep at all and others after prep and multiple tries.

On paper from the scores...they look identical but I know quite well that they are not.  This test can be gamed so what good is it?[/quote]

Why not ask MIT?  You can't really game your way into a truly superior SAT score.  [/quote]

"Another popular misconception is that one can “buy” a better SAT score through costly test prep. Yet research has consistently demonstrated that it is remarkably difficult to increase an individual’s SAT score, and the commercial test prep industry capitalizes on, at best, modest changes [13,17]. Short of outright cheating on the test, an expensive and complex undertaking that may carry unpleasant legal consequences, high SAT scores are generally difficult to acquire by any means other than high ability."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6963451/[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics