How often and when to start taking SAT?

INVENIAMVIAM
Sat, 15 Nov 2008 01:01:22 +0000

^Yeah yeah I’ve seen articles like that several times.



What about people who genuinely do poorly to other external conditions?

Okay please explain to me what an external condition of this sort would actually be? I said they can take it twice if they genuinely have a reason for doing poorly the first time - are there situations when twice there’s an actual external condition that causes them to do badly?? If someone genuinely had a real reason [although there are very few external reasons that I can think of, so idk the chances of them happening more than once for a scheduled SAT date] to do poorly on the SAT, and this happened to them more then once, then fine, they can take it again. They’re not morons.



Colleges treat applicants uniformly now by considering their highest scores, period.

Now - meaning for the NEXT year of applicants, not this year, which includes me, so it’s not exactly what I’m talking about.



Although coaching would no doubt continue if subject tests replaced the SAT, at least students would be focused on content as much as test-taking strategies, Mr. Murray said. There would also be pressure to improve local high school curriculums so that students were prepared, he wrote.

“These arguments make sense to Mr. Fitzsimmons [dean of admission at Harvard], who said, ‘People are going to prepare anyway, so they might as well study chemistry or biology.’ He added that ‘the idea of putting more emphasis on the subject tests is of great interest’ to his group.”

And YES I do agree with this - if you study MATERIAL that’s actually going to be in classes, in college, etc, then that’s beneficial. If you’re mindlessly studying the sort of questions on the SAT, I don’t think that’s going to help.