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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Allow extra time for everyone, not just people with fake or real diagnoses. However, anyone who uses the extra time gets an asterisk next to the score, that colleges would be able to take account of when making admissions decisions. This would, I hope, restrict people willing to use extra time to the ones for whom it actually makes a significant difference, and help reduce the mismatch problem.

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Restore the free response math, b/c I have seen private data from a university department that showed there is a noticeable fraction of students with relatively high math scores who do well on simple algebra/geometry problems which are multiple choice, but completely fall apart when trying to do them without the crutch of already having the answer available: they can winnow things down, but not generate the answers on their own.

Ban calculators; too easy to cheat with fake ones, among more obvious reasons.

Essay brought back for all, and used in place of the chatgpt generated ones students are submitting to colleges.

Longer reading passages, drawing from older, more complex material.

Restore the analogy section: a verbal test without analogies is like a thingie without some thingie that makes it better, yo.

More difficult questions that allow better distinguishing the wheat from the chaff. A JEE/Gaokao section, perhaps. Probably goes along with bringing back the subject exams.[/quote]

Oh, also removing the continuous retakes that advantage the well-heeled and put cash in the College Board's pocket.[/quote]

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