<p>a-dub: In concurrence with popular belief, intelligence is a noun, and the way you use it in the sentence saying otherwise confirms that. 
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<p>I understand you’re saying that to make a point, but it was such a ridiculous statement I couldn’t let it pass.</p>
<p>I’m not going to wade too deeply into this debate, but SAT scores have been shown in numerous studies by numerous research psychologists to have a strongly positive correlation to IQ scores. This of course opens the entirely separate debate of whether IQ accurately represents intelligence, and whether you can actually quantify intelligence at all. But I don’t have the time to go over that. :P</p>
<p>What IQ does show has to do with higher order reasoning skills, logic, memory, and so on. So knowing that, you can understand somewhat what the SAT is testing.</p>
<p>As a special note to everyone who says that because memorization (of vocabulary) is such a large part of most people’s preparation for the test, it can’t measure intelligence: it has been shown that performance on rigorous memory- and language-skills tests is also strongly correlated to IQ. So the argument about memorization invalidating the SATs usefulness as a metric in this case may not be valid.</p>