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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The new TOEFL emphasizes speaking and comprehensive more than previous versions did, while the 2019 incarnation of the SAT emphasizes chart and graph reading, bringing it more up to date.  Standardized tests given by the College Board tend to improve over time.

The problem with rejecting the SAT out of hand as a waste of time, PP, is that, as has been noted, it's just not a difficult test for high school students who are remotely prepared to handle any kind of college rigor.  If a HS junior or senior can't score at least in the 500s on the SATs for both reading and math after a couple of tries, s/he pretty clearly isn't prepared to enroll in any type of credible BA program anywhere.

If the new SAT was too difficult for the college-bound, my 7th grader, who isn't a top student at his DCPS middle school, couldn't possibly have scored more than 600 in both reading and math.  He did no test prep beyond a few hours on Khan Academy SAT prep videos.  He had to take the SAT to meet a cut-off to attend an academic summer camp.

There's just no denying that Banneker's weak SAT scores are indicative that something is very wrong with the program, and the middle and elementary schools feeding into it.  [/quote]

You sound like you do PR for the College Board. I bombed my SATs (and GREs) but graduated college with honors. Universities are moving away from requiring them. I applaud that move! Complete waste of time and money.[/quote]

These comments are so dumb.  This is like saying you are anti-vax because your cousin posted on Facebook that his testicles swelled up after getting the Pfizer shot.

Your personal experience is important to you but no one else, and your "evidence" is nothing but an unverified personal anecdote.

Plenty of colleges still use the SAT and ACT., and lots of kids take them  For example, almost 2.2 million high school students from the Class of 2020 took the SAT, up from 2.1 million in 2018.[/quote]

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