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...executives who signed a letter to universities objecting to the test cited the differences between bubble-in tests and workplace tasks. They also noted that that a high score on the SAT is not the best predictor of future success. Because of the SAT’s long history and its relatively simple format, it is not a difficult test for which to prepare. Students who familiarize themselves with the format of the test and likely vocabulary words have a definite advantage over students who do not. Capitalizing on this fact, companies like The Princeton Review and Kaplan offer elaborate...
...parlance of Mount Holyoke's admissions officers, Susan is a "score blocker." Last summer Mount Holyoke announced that for a five-year trial period, it would give applicants the option of withholding their test scores, allowing the college to test the effectiveness of the SAT as a predictor of college success. This fall applications rose 10%, with 1 in 6 scores withheld. Now it's crunch time for the school's admissions officers, who have holed up in an unassuming white clapboard house on campus to carry out the new policy. Over the past two weeks, Mount Holyoke has allowed...
...assessment test." Now it just says the name is SAT and is unwilling to give the test much of an identity beyond that. President Kurt Landgraf of the Educational Testing Service, the company that designs the SAT under contract from the College Board, says it "is a relatively good predictor of how students will do in their first year of college." But he has a profoundly limited view of the nature of the test: "It's a measure of a student's ability to answer questions at a given place and time" - the kind of sentence you might find...
...parlance of Mount Holyoke's admissions officers, Susan is a "score blocker." Last summer Mount Holyoke announced that for a five-year trial period, it would give applicants the option of withholding their test scores, allowing the college to test the effectiveness of the SAT as a predictor of college success. This fall applications rose 10 percent, with 1 in 6 scores withheld. Now it's crunch time for the school's admissions officers, who have holed up in an unassuming white clapboard house on campus to carry out the new policy. Over the past two weeks, Mount Holyoke...
...kept quiet about my test performance until I got my scores back. So while my brave experiment did confirm that now I am indeed dumber, it also revealed that I am much cockier. And that, I have learned in my brief working career, is a far more important predictor of success than intelligence...