Trembling hands, flying graphite, nervous sweat. Anyone who's taken a standardized test recognizes those symptoms instantly. Millions of students take the SAT and ACT tests each year in hopes of earning admission to their dream college, but a growing movement insists these standardized tests are an unfair and inaccurate measure of academic worth. Should colleges continue to consider these tests when determining their future alumni?
Executive Director - Omniac Education
It is easy to forget that the purpose of the SAT or ACT is not to issue a judgment on a student's intelligence, but is instead supposed to offer us a prediction of how well the student will perform in college. Throughout the years, ETS and ACT have tried to prove that their tests are great indicators of "college success." They have not been able to do so convincingly. SAT's latest study showed that the New SAT, for example, performs no better at predicting Freshman college grades than the Old SAT and that neither the New or the Old test perform better than...high school GPA.
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