<p>I sort of wish that they had the SAT every week. I can imagine getting that feeling of getting those few questions wrong which results in a 700, but you know that you can get an 800 and it’s just luck that is holding you back. For one, Collegeboard would make more money, and it gives more chances to students. Something like every two weeks sounds great because sometimes you feel like you want to take another shot at it once you get those scores back.</p>
<p>So basically, there are a group of students who can get an 800 perhaps one out of every 10 testings, and a group that can get an 800 perhaps… every other testing. I think there’s a difference in ability level between those two. And our scores to colleges should reflect that. With multiple choice tests there is always an element of luck. Yes, it would be nice for those students in the first group (an 800 very occasionally) if they could just try over and over again. But that 800 is not really their ability level, I think. And there are a number of reasons this would be wrong: 1) logistically impossible for Collegeboard to write and score SATs so fast, 2) some score obsessed students basically would spend their ENTIRE LIVES trying to get higher scores on the SAT… at least for junior/senior year.</p>
<p>If the objective of the SAT is to measure aptitude (although with all of the test prep, etc., it clearly isn’t), there should be fewer administrations, not more.</p>
<p>And if everybody took it 15 times, nobody really gains; it’s just a lot more work, and each person’s superscored SAT becomes a little bit higher, which colleges will compensate for by raising their standards a little higher.</p>
<p>^agreed. I think we’re already very lucky. When my parents were applying to college, the exam was only given once a YEAR (post-Cultural Revolution China…not sure how it is now…probably still once/twice a year).</p>