The Tests Are Too Easy to Prep For
As a professional test prep tutor, I've seen hundreds of kids improve their scores. Some of them even jump from merely average scores to incredible top percentile scores without much more than a serious review of the material and lessons on the tricks the tests use. Any test that is supposed to stand as an indicator of college success should not allow students to improve their scores so quickly! The fact that we can help students get enormous improvements is an indicator that the exams are more like a games than a tests - timed events where you compete for points!
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Multiple choice and standardized tests are an insult to students who do their homework, study for tests, read thier book chapters, and participate in class. REASON: Multiple choice tests, give even those who dont earn their grades a chance to succeed, and this is unfair. i could elaborate more on this topic , but i have a paper to write.
I also teach test prep classes, and I too have seen students increase their scores by leaps and bounds with only a couple months of prepping. But without exception this only happens with the bright students. The mediocre ones never improve, or improve very little. And the average ones improve moderately. If the SAT and ACT are phased out, students who are not ready for college will not get any leg up in the admission process, though they are always the ones who clamor the loudest for the SAT and ACT to be abolished. It really doesn't matter if colleges use the tests or not, the students who are ready for college will get in, and the ones who aren't won't. Grades, AP & honors courses, essays, and letters of recommendation are all enough to show who is ready. I only vote for keeping the tests since it helps keep me employed...