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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How many single sitting SAT 1600's are achieved each year?[/quote]

With super scoring , there is less pressure on the first sitting. If only one sitting was allowed, kids would just take it later and do a zillion practice tests before it. [/quote]

This!  If only one sitting, private tutoring business will profit like hell.  Everyone has enormous pressure to perform in that one sitting, and they will prep and prep.

Most kids in my DC's school do not prep at all to take the first sitting as a practice/baseline setting.  Compared to the cost for private tutoring, registration fees for SAT is relatively very small.  It's nothing.  Current system is conducive to encouraging self study.
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So they are using the actual test as a practice test? I went to school eons ago in another country where we did a standardised test. Everyone got a few sessions in school to explain how it worked, try practice tests, etc then we took the test once. In this day and age, how hard could it be to design an online system that provides practice opportunities?[/quote]

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