Why are you assuming that their teachers and counselors are telling them a week before? That’s insulting to the thousands of educators out there who work for little pay but are dedicating their lives to these children. At the school I tutor at, they take their standardized tests junior year, like everyone else! They are given advance notice. Our high school, separate and apart from the charitable organization that I volunteer for, sends top students every week to tutor disadvantaged students for the SAT/ACT. The inner city kids do have programs set up to help them, I’m not talking about the one kid who lives on a farm in Idaho without access to a library or the internet. I’m also not trying to argue that the playing field is level, by any stretch, just trying to argue that there are resources available to these children.