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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I actually think the SAT is designed to weed out kids with learning disabilities. My kid doesn’t have LDs and did well on the SAT but has pointed out how oddly the questions are worded. He tutored peers at his high school and now in college and he’s never come across wording and question structure similar to the SAT on any exam or test.

Colleges are pretty bad at supporting LDs. Kids with LDs  are statistically more likely to fail or drop out. It’s awful but admissions will flag essays that talk about mental health or LDs. College board is simply providing a service to the Universities by designing a test that ferrets these kids out without exposing the university to a lawsuit.

It also helps the College Board stay relevant and supports the ecosystem around it. The prep courses focus on the oddity of the questions. If the questions weren’t structured this way, prep companies wouldn’t be able to promise higher scores. As prep is expensive, kids with more money score higher.

So now simply by structuring the questions in a particular way, college board has made it very likely that wealthy kids without LDs will score high and poor kids or kids with LDs will score very low following the pre established pattern of who does well in college. The test isn’t the predictor. The test was designed to mirror the already established pattern. [/quote]

You made the point without even realizing it - if your kid cannot adapt and learn how to take these standardized tests, why should anyone believe that they CAN adapt and learn how to successfully complete all of the new, unfamiliar requirements that will be thrown at them as a college student?[/quote]

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