<p>It would measure intelligence more accurately if people had the integrity not to try and “beat the test”. Seriously, prep classes are lame. People should just take one or two practice tests before each SAT (really only the math section so that you can get used to the seemingly easy yet deceptive questions, if you’ve been taking Calc or something more difficult), take it once or twice, and that’s it. Of course, some people don’t have enough honor, or even faith in their own intelligence, and that ruins it for everyone. People’s motivations for taking these tests shouldn’t be to impress colleges, it should be to test your own intelligence and see if you are capable of doing well in a academic setting within college. It does not measure college success in general (I.e: Social success, having a life, while doing well), but then again, neither does high GPA or an excessive amount of EC’s or an essay (which some people without integrity get teachers to write nearly half of it). I mean, I got a 2280 on my 2nd and final try (2150 on first try), so I applied to top schools because I felt I could handle it. If I got sub 2000 but above 1800, I’d have applied to second tier schools because that would be what I could handle, sub 1800 and I’d go to Penn State (a great school by the way, no diss mean there).</p>