... school activities, jobs they may have held, voluntary work, etc. and then these characteristics may come to light. Second, studies have been done that show that high school grades and SAT scores combined are good predictors of how well a student will do in their first semester at college. The College Board says that, across many colleges ... by the California Postsecondary Education Commission (CPEC) states that only 2.5% of California public high school graduates were disallowed solely on the basis of inadequate test scores. Beginning in 1995, Lafayette College conducted a five-year ex...

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... what I have learned during the past three years in high school but it does show my ability to regurgitate the information I learned during $5,000 SAT training classes. The thought of the SATs cause anxiety in certain people, including myself. Those who do well on the SATs most likely took steps ... out experiencing everything the world has to offer menot stuck in a library for hours to study for a test that doesn't benefit me in any way. SAT scores help colleges identify students that they feel have potential to do well at that particular college. A student's GPA, essay and recommendati...

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... a lot more than one test. Therefore, something must be done to change this unjust testing system because it proves nothing about an individual. The ACT and SAT have caused many headaches through the years, and for a useless purpose. There are millions of fully qualified individuals left out of their primary college choice every year ... because they failed to meet their required ACT or SAT score. It is not fair to judge twelve years of education on one test. During the course of a students 12 or 13 year career in ... and studying four different math classes, students would only have to s...

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... the mental competence of a person is a very crude manner of selecting college candidates. Ironically, even the College Board, which is in charge of the SAT's, also agree that the test is not truly meant to test a person's intelligence. They refer to the test as "a relatively good way of predicting ... time." If what the College Board says is true, than why should the test matter so much? There's a big difference in going to a SAT prep course and learning how to navigate it than actually being smart and literate enough to know what "surreptitious" means. Richard Atkinson, the psychologis...

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... on study guides and taking the actual test and when it came to it, it was my 91 average score that got me into college and not the damn SAT. They covered nothing that I studied in school and I really don't see any need for it." This was Crystal Gemma, a 21-year-old Baruch student. ... students I taught. Exams shouldn't be the only thing that warrant whether a student should be accepted into a college." Kathy Emann, a High School teacher is against the SAT and makes a good point. There are those students who don't do tests well and freeze up, but in fact are quite smart. It leaves no spa...

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... be inadequate at measuring a student's academic ability in college. Over the past few years there has been a growing controversy about the SAT I exam in America. The SAT I test is very broad and does not look at what students have learned specifically in the subjects they were taught from grades one ... true academic ability. Some people get nervous before big tests. Some people are just bad at that type of test. Another possible concern regarding the SAT I exam is that it is unfair toward lower income families. There are many programs offered to help students to learn how to take the ...

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... least crudely) for other variables, including high school grades and socioeconomic status." (Jencks and Phillips 458) And although females earn higher grades in high school and college, in 2002 their sat scores were 39 points lower than males. The College Board attributes the racial test score gap to the "different education opportunities the students have." (Wirtz et al. 32) Strict use of ... subject matter. Students are forced to memorize vocabulary and analogies specific to the test, instead of truly grasping a subject. As it is now, there is too much emphasis placed on SAT scores. I...

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... Their Performance in School, Not Standardized Tests Recently, when I was filling out my application to United States Air Force Academy, I came across a section in the application that requested for my SAT scores. Next to it, was a graph determining how much consideration was given to the standardized test. It read twenty percent, and at that moment, I felt my heart rapidly pound as if ... , I currently have a 3.88 GPA. I believe that a test should not determine the collegiate potential of an individual. College students aspiring to attend a service academy should not be judged by their s...

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... with the financial burden of college. The only requirements to receive free tuition and books at a public University is a "B" average, no SAT examination scores. This may have something to do, however, with the state of Georgia being ranked 50th for average SAT scores. For a program that was set up to raise the states ranking, it has done nothing but fail. Like Wooten, in his ... not be counted because it is not tied into the Georgia curriculum. This, to me, seems almost absurd when you think that SAT scores are used by colleges for admissions. However, I also share a similar light with...

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... Hawaii 2004-2005 their test architect Harcourt made an error in their system which led to grading over 98,000 of these test because the scores students were receiving said that they had submitted a vacant test booklet which was not the case. (Pro-Con) Redundant testing has not been ... providing students with the information needed for the adult life such as more advanced education and awareness recession. Colleges look at students SAT and ACT scores to see if they meet the required score in order to be accepted to their campus a student planning on attending college should take ... sta...

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... a lot of discussions about future and college education come into play. Many important factors come up while discussing college, including tuition, their cumulative GPA, and their exam scores. These are all determinants of the student's future and where they stand in the competitive application process. In the admission system of our society an important factor is ... , resilience, motivation, persistence, curiosity, endurance, reliability, enthusiasm, self-discipline, leadership, courage, compassion, resourcefulness, sense of wonder, honesty, integrity." Universities have a tunnel vision...

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... of education requires art classes in America's school systems. Because of budget cuts throughout America's school systems and low rank in global test scores, many schools are completely eliminating art education, despite evidence that suggests it benefits performance in core subjects and develops cognitive skills necessary for everyday ... and academic performance. In fact, these studies have shown that high school students who are actively involved in art courses have higher standardized test scores than those who had little to no involvement in art courses. According to Lauren Stevens...

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... built merely on accuracy fails to get us far enough" Which is true, and a perfect example of this idea: At my high school, amazingly the average SAT score rose dramatically within a year or so. That is a provable fact. Though it is completely true, it's not the whole story. The story is ... it that if you were going to a community college or didn't plan on attending a college or university "YOU DID NOT HAVE TO TAKE THE SAT!!!" They knew that the people with such plans already in mind were not as "academically minded" as those planning on getting into a college. "Why ... to take it again...

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... at top institutions. Although he finds that students of color attended slightly better institutions then white students with similar characteristics, he notes that this observation is only based on test scores and high school GPA information. With tens of thousands of applicants, large, public universities do not have time nor labor to review millions of pieces of subjective material. Instead many ... various aspects of an applicant's file and then accept all students above cutoff. While students could get a maximum of eighty points for their GPA and 12 points for their SAT or ACT score...

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... semester almost over, I have to study and meet scholarship deadlines. In addition scholarships can be a time consuming process with a short deadline notice. For example, some scholarships require recommendation letters, transcripts, SAT scores, long admission forms to be completed, and essays; it is just like re-applying to college. Some scholarships require you to read a book and write a report on the book with ... in a month. In addition to the report, two recommendation letters, transcript, and SAT scores are needed. Furthermore, some scholarships require you to be unbelievably talen...

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... I, and two others of any other courses. I was unaware of it until the beginning of my senior year but had no idea on what I passed and what I did not pass. I sat down with a former teacher of mine name Mrs. Roberts and asked her a few questions about how she felt about standardized testing. Mrs. Roberts stated that it is subjective and depended ... no effort in the last few years. Standardized tests tend to narrow the curriculum to what will be tested. Because teachers are pressured by the demand to produce higher test scores, they often spend a lot of time having students practice item...

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... what the primary mission of these colleges or Universities is. This statistic isn't enough evidence to support a theory for admissions, so I researched SAT scores. And I found once again that athletes are getting very favored treatment. In Division 1A schools the average SAT score of a high profile athlete is 917. That is a 237 point different to a student at large, and they are still dominating ... college admission. The SAT score however does not back up a Marymount University athlete. The average SAT score of a high profile athlete at a Division III University is an 1126. Only 100 po...

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... what the primary mission of these colleges or Universities is. This statistic isn't enough evidence to support a theory for admissions, so I researched SAT scores. And I found once again that athletes are getting very favored treatment. In Division 1A schools the average SAT score of a high profile athlete is 917. That is a 237 point different to a student at large, and they are still dominating ... college admission. The SAT score however does not back up a Marymount University athlete. The average SAT score of a high profile athlete at a Division III University is an 1126. Only 100 po...

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... . Therefore now college admissions are based more on skin color than on skills and merit. The University of Michigan rates students on a scale that awards points for SAT scores, High school grades, and race. A perfect SAT score is worth 12 points, but being black gets you 20 points. Now tell me, is there anyone who can look at those numbers and say they ... : "Jared is a white boy who will graduate from a prestigious midwestern academy with a 3.9 grade point average. He took all the AP classes that the school offered, had a PSAT score of 1480, a SAT score of 1360 and an ACT score of thirt...

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... that sending one's child to a private school will insure that they receive a better education, which in turn will result in higher test scores on the ACT and SAT. This is not a true statement, however. Statistics have proven that the average scores of public high school students are higher than those of high school students attending private schools. Despite the numerous advantages of public ... ...

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... are eligible to enter universities, and are rejected because they are not star athletes. There are many instances where students with superb SAT or ACT scores are not getting accepted into universities due to that fact that athletes with substantially lower scores are admitted. This dilemma is one of many that need to be addressed within the post secondary education system. "Georgetown University ... ...

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... to. They are NorthWestern University, Loyola University, and University of Illinois. To move on, it is necessary for me to get good ACT and SAT scores, because NorthWestern University requires medium ACT score of 30, while Loyola requires ACT scores in high twenties. Furthermore, there are many courses that I would like to take in my first two years of college. I certainly want to ... ...

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... some things about it need to be refined, because for a person like me it simply fosters reverse discrimination. I worked extremely hard in high school to get a high GPA and a good SAT score, while my parents too worked hard to be able to afford to place me in a good school district growing up. When applying to college, I realized that people with lower ... GPA's and SAT scores got into schools that I got rejected from simply because of their race or ethnicity. I understand that some of these people must have had more hardships growing up and need such ... ...

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I do not recommend that the school district convert to merit pay for teachers. It is a hazardous proposition and we will explore the reasons why. First of all, teachers do not support merit pay and the result would have ... face a shortage of teachers in this nation and to risk losing even one good teacher over this issue would be a loss that we cannot afford. Merit pay for student's test scores creates an environment where a teacher may simply "teach" the test rather than teaching the student and teaching the grade level curriculum. To have an entire school year's worth of work ... ...

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... and putting too much value into the tests has created a problem in which many teachers now strictly teach to the materials on the test, creating better scores, but decreasing overall knowledge. Compared with many foreign countries, we perform worse on many subjects on the tests. This is for a number of reasons. ... on the students, but the college education you receive may be more work and harder curriculum than those of foreign countries. This gives them better scores while testing, but the pressure on them is much greater than on the students of the United States. Many students who d...

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