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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote] No hostility toward SAT and ACT prep. People generally don't have a problem with prep for the college entrance examinations like the SAT and the ACT since, as you say, they are not aptitude tests, but tests of the subject matter taught in high school.

But let's face it, an unprepped perfect score for a high school junior is way more impressive than a prepped score. These are tests of all you have learned in school so an unprepped perfect score shows a much better than average command of the coursework taught in high school.[/quote]

Only a fool will assume an "unprepped" 800 is way more impressive since this individual has prepped deligently through reading and longstanding study.  What's so impressive?
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Exactly. Reading and longstanding study over time are quite different than drilling test questions closer to the time of the test.. It is more impressive to remember material learned a long time ago through reading than it is to repeat answers that were crammed for the test very recently. It's the difference between memorizing material just for a test and really knowing and having command of subject matter.
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