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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wish they would cull out the kids that test prep and run the numbers. [/quote]

Are you suggesting kids should not prepare for the ACT or SAT now?  [/quote]

C'mon. I know one kid who took the SAT 7 times until they got the score the parents deemed acceptable.[/quote]

And your point is?? If a runner runs the same course 100s of times to improve 0.1 sec, is that a bad thing? Oh, btw, for the sake of argument, let’s say the runner is not an Asian.[/quote]

Again, if you work this hard to reduce your running time and you're Asian, it can only mean your Tiger Parent is forcing you to be successful.  However, if you you're not Asian, I believe this is called Perseverance and is consider a good trait.[/quote]

Um, no. Bad analogy. These tests were designed to be taken once. When most people take it once, and a segment of test takers turns it into a conditioning sport, it warps the results and renders the test far less useful for admissions officers.[/quote]

What are you talking about??

Most people take the SATs and ACTs more than once.  Very very few take them only once.

Even at my backwards, redneck, trailer park, no one leaves the state high school in the 80s, people would take the ACT at least twice, sometimes more. [/quote]

Do you have any data because I’m the only person I know from my rural HS that took it twice [/quote]

Yes.

Real life experience.

I took it 3 times.

Spring of junior year, early fall of senior year, winter senior year, 1989.

The really smart kids took the SAT too.  One of them got an academy appointment.

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Counterpoint. At my rural high school, from which I graduated in 1990, I was the only one in my class to take both the ACT and the SAT. I took each exactly once. Most kids didn't take either even once because the majority of kids from my HS class did not go on to college. There was one kid who took the SAT twice.[/quote]

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