Do private schools have it easier than normal publics?

mathyone
Thu, 06 Nov 2014 17:39:20 +0000

I am mostly responding to this assertion “A three versus a five does on one exam does not mean that student is more prepared for college but that they learned the specific information that was on the test that day.”

The AP syllabus is pretty well defined, to the point where my daughter used some of the exact same texts used in my high school decades ago in a different state. There are also released test questions. So I don’t think there’s any great mystery about what the kids are getting tested on, and I think the difference between a 3 and a 5 is meaningful. Obviously there are also skills one would hope the kids develop that won’t be measured by these tests.

I’d be delighted if the college board would make the SAT harder and stop making distinctions between students that are meaningless.