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<p>It isn’t trying to assess intelligence, for the nth time. That’s why SAT doesn’t stand for anything any more. It’s meant to test your readiness for college - which in certain ways it does.</p>
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<p>No, test taking is just as important as it seems right now, until you get out of university. Then it isn’t as important.</p>
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<p>Everyone who takes the test should have the maturity to sit through it. Otherwise, maybe they aren’t ready for college. Frankly, the length of the test isn’t that much of an ordeal really. You just keep concentrating, and it goes by in a flash.</p>
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<p>And back to the main point, where we talked about how the SAT doesn’t assess intelligence. It assesses readiness for college. And frankly, if a school hasn’t prepared a candidate well because that candidate is underprivileged, then that sucks, but the fact that they do badly on the SAT probably is an accurate predictor of their performance in college. Like it or not, poor people as a whole do worse on EVERYTHING educational-testing related - since education is a function of socioeconomic status partially. Just because the SAT doesn’t reflect that doesnt mean it’s discriminatory - and everything I just said goes for ESL students as well.</p>
<p>As for your last paragraph, the SAT doesn’t just assess test-taking skills. People hate to admit it, but there is a correlation between performance on the SAT and performance in college, or else no one would use it (and the fact that some colleges don’t use it doesn’t fully counter this point).</p>