<p>With no practice I think it would be considered hard and most people wouldn’t break 2000. The test takes too much endurance and a lot of the math and grammar rules need to be taught beforehand. It’s not like most people just know how to do those problems. Not to mention the time limit. So I think it’s a naturally hard test, but with practice, can become quite easy. Confirm/deny? ha</p>
<p>It’s a fairly tricky test on subjects that we don’t learn in school.</p>
<p>It’s hard in the fact that it’s not testing you on things that you would think it tests you on.</p>
<p>It’s hard. It’s supposed to one of the factors that distinguishes students from entering good colleges. So, yeah! T-T</p>
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<p>Quite easy my behind. It’s a hard exam. It requires some pretty sharp reasoning skills. I have a pretty high score and I still think it’s difficult.</p>
<p>If it weren’t hard, I would have gotten a 2400 or at least 2300+ already…</p>
<p>"So I think it’s a naturally hard test, but with practice, can become quite easy. "</p>
<p>ha arachnatron…i was just trying to encourage myself…so apparently it really is that hard 
grr</p>
<p>Naaa its eeeezzzzz - I cop that 2400 all day every day.</p>
<p>The SAT is a money maker, not a test. It is ridiculous to evaluate someones skills in twenty minutes on random sections for over four straight hours of testing! I do not see it as an accurate depiction of how well someone will do in college. It is unrealistic. Taking one test represents one day of your high school career, on a Saturday morning nonetheless. Do you really think you are going to get an accurate depiction of a student in one sitting on one test? I don’t think so. Besides, I’ve heard many stories about kids cheating on the SAT and using different “focus” drugs to do well. How is that fair? But what would the college admissions process be without Collegeboard.com right?</p>
<p>I agree with Quicksandslowly haha.
I also agree with StevenWheatland, it is a waste. I don’t we should base our schooling careers on one test. What if we had a bad week or aren’t a good test taker? They should judge us on that.</p>
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Then retake. What if you had a bad day on your final exams, hmm? They’re being generous by giving us more than one shot. </p>
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<p>Grades in school are usually determined by tests. This is a weak argument. Very, very weak.</p>
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Cookies aren’t food, they’re money makers! Damn the Keebler company!</p>
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<p>How would you evaluate someone’s skills? On a bunch of random 1 hour tests in a classroom and a lot of subjective grades like homework and “class participation”?</p>
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You could do that in school too. In school, cheating’s a lot easier to do, actually. </p>
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Horribly subjective and unfair? Yeah, that’s right.</p>
<p>Standardized test taking is different from a typical test in school that you can study and prepare for in a more predictable manner.</p>
<p>north face: are you whisting while you walk past the cemetery?</p>
<p>Am I what? haa</p>
<p>To respond to Arachnatron:</p>
<p>-The SAT is longer than any test you take in school.
-Before you take a test at school, provided you have a decent teacher, you are aware of what’s going to be on it and taught how to solve what’s on it. If you want to really do well on the SAT, you have to go out of your way on your own to figure out what’s going to be on the test and how to solve everything (unless you were somehow taught all of this in school and memorized it).
-There is a difference between a good school test-taker, and a good standardized test-taker. At school, there usually aren’t crazy time restrictions, especially on writing. Being a good standardized test-taker means you can think quickly and accurately and in a way that helps you take standardized tests.
-A lot of schoolwork is also paper-driven (at least where I go), in which we have our own time to do the work. Meaning it isn’t just about the tests.</p>
<p>@ raiderade: CB has 16 released tests available (8 in BB, 6 in OC, 2 from those “Official SAT Preparation Booklets”). If released tests don’t show you exactly the types of questions that show up on the SATs, then I don’t know what does.</p>
<p>Arachnatron-People don’t have to buy cookies if they don’t want to. In order to get into college you have to take the SAT/ACT (Same difference). Standardized testing is a monopoly. It is a lot easier to base someone’s skills over four years of high school rather than one (maybe 2 or 3) test(s). For most people, they take the test twice and rarely do they take it a third time, although some do. Some can only afford to take it once. It’s also a lot easier to get caught in school when you are constantly supervised in every class by teachers. Teachers are not dumb, they know when a student has cheated. And please try to justify your last statement, it made no sense. Would you rather we do away with the common app and simply send in our SAT score reports and call it a day?</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s that hard.</p>
<p>It’s not that it’s a hard test. Without the time constraint, everyone would score upwards of 2000 on every try. But twenty minutes for certain sections seems unreasonable. Seriously, who cares if we can do a math problem thirty seconds faster than someone else? Will that make or break your academic experience at college?</p>
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<li><p>Agreed.</p></li>
<li><p>Yeah. So that’s just testing if you’ve been paying attention. The SAT measures your ability to handle unfamiliar situations! Even with preparation, you can’t know how to do every question – you’ve got to think on your feet, which is something that HS tests rarely do. </p></li>
<li><p>Being a good standardized test taker means: you can think quickly, you can manage time well, and you can think accurately. I’d say those are pretty important aspects of scholastic ability,and indeed, how things are in the real world? </p></li>
<li><p>Ok, sure. Proves my point.</p></li>
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