<p>On the back of the Blue Book, it says that the SAT is ‘not a logic/IQ test’ and it only tests what you’ve learned in school in its little myth debunking section.</p>
<p>Wth are those geometric perception questions, then? When do you ever get taught how to rearrange shapes in your head and understand what those questions are actually asking, etc? Is that even teachable? There’s no mathematical rules to those problems, no things like angle relationships or formulas or methods of solving them like substitution. Honestly, you innately either know how to solve these questions or you don’t, it’s not like algebra that can be taught. In fact, geometric perception-style questions are one of the common types of questions given in actual IQ tests.</p>
<p>So why does the College Board insist on saying that the SAT only tests what you’ve explicitly learned in school, when that statement is quite frankly objectively false?</p>