Reactions to New SAT
To note: college success is better verified by GPA than SAT or ACT. From the president of Bard College via Time : The SAT needs to be abandoned and replaced. The SAT has a status as a reliable measure of college readiness it does not deserve. The blunt fact is that the SAT has never been a good predictor of academic achievement in college. High school grades adjusted to account for the curriculum and academic programs in the high school from which a student graduates are. First, despite the changes, these tests remain divorced from what is taught in high school and what ought to be taught in high school. Second, the test taker never really finds out whether he or she got any answer right or wrong and why. What purpose is served by putting young people through an ordeal from which they learn nothing? Is the SAT a reasonable representation of the ideals and benefits of learning? No, it makes a mockery of them. The time has come for co...