Why I chose this topic: Should the SAT be used for college admissions? The SAT has been a huge controversy for a long time‚ however‚ it wasn’t until several months after getting into college that I began to really question why it’s used for admission. The only answers I really got from the college board was that it is “designed to assess your academic readiness for college and provides a path to opportunities‚ financial support and scholarships‚ in a way that’s fair to all students. It also keeps
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How to prepare for the SAT By Saketh Challa‚ Matthew Hoffman‚ and Surya Pulukuri 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Manage your time wisely during the test. Skip questions you cannot answer quickly. Get a good nights sleep before the day of the exam. Eat a good breakfast before the day of the exam. Make educated guesses about the correct answers. Answer the easy questions before harder questions. Do practice tests. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Capesse tuum tempus sapienter per examen. Omitte quaesita quae non potes respondere subito
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College Board SAT® Program P.O. Box 8056 Mount Vernon‚ IL 62864-0208 USA 1 2013-14 REGISTRATION FORM and SAT® QUESTIONNAIRE Print in CAPITAL LETTERS. Use blue or black ink (no pencil) to fill in all information. All items in red must be completed or your registration will be returned unprocessed. Follow instructions in the Registration Guide to complete both sides of the form. Do not staple anything to this form. 2 PHOTO (REQUIRED) NAME (REQUIRED) LAST NAME (Family Name)
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The Effects of SAT and ACT Test Scores on Students Too often students find themselves cramming information they should know before taking a test. Initially‚ they’ll study the information‚ and mundanely forget it soon after the test. Students often say “getting grades is the most important thing about school” (LeCompte). The more emphasis teachers and parents’ place on performance‚ the more students become set back by a failure‚ which makes an even more vigorous point to this argument (Heyman and
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SAT I 2011 / 2012 Question booklet # 8 Grade 12 Cluster Core Subject Mathematics Student Name Student Number Section Coverage SAT I‚ basic reasoning questions. 1. If 10 + x is 5 more than 10‚ what is the value of 2x? (A) −5 (B) 5 (C) 10 (D) 25 (E) 50 2. If x and y are positive integers‚ what are all the solutions (x‚ y) of the equation 3x + 2y = 11? (A) (1‚4) only (B) (3‚1) only (C) (1‚4) and (2‚2) (D) (1‚4) and (3‚1) (E) (2‚2) and (3‚1) 3. When 70‚000 is written as 7.0 × 10n‚ what
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David Wilson Mrs. Jensen English 101-014 14 November 2012 The SAT Put to the Test Thesis: The ETS is negligent towards the statistics that show that the SAT is not a fair way of measuring a students academic worth and thus should be replaced or remodeled‚ because there are better and easier ways of measuring learning ability‚ biased to the lower class children that take them‚ and not the first choice of information that colleges are interested in when enrolling students. I. School faculty should
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LEVEL Grammar‚ punctuation and spelling Paper 1: extended task First name Middle name Last name Date of birth School name DfE number Day Month Year SAMPLE *SAMPLE01* Sourced from SATs-Papers.co.uk http://www.SATs-Papers.co.uk [BLANK PAGE] Please do not write on this page. 02 Sourced from SATs-Papers.co.uk *SAMPLE02* http://www.SATs-Papers.co.uk Instructions In this task your grammar‚ punctuation and vocabulary will be tested in an extended piece of writing. Your focus in
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Standardized tests are a biased way of measuring academic talent. Although the College Board believes the SAT is a good predictor of academic success‚ this method of testing should be optional for students‚ as high school GPAs are better reflections on a student’s work ethics and future success in a school setting also not requiring standardized tests for college admittance increases
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college’s admissions committee had given the following weights to student selection criteria: high school grades (40 %); Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores (40 %); extra-curricular activities and achievements (10 %); and the quality and creativity of a written theme submitted with the application (10 %). Hala has serious reservations about using SAT scores. In their defense‚ she recognizes that the quality of high schools varies greatly‚ so that the level of student performance that receives an
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Two crises are stalking American education. Each poses a major threat to the nation’s future. The two are very different in character and will require separate strategies if we wish to solve them; yet to date‚ almost without exception‚ those concerned with restoring excellence to our schools have lumped them together. The first crisis‚ which centers on disadvantaged minority children attending inner-city schools‚ has received considerable attention‚ as well it should. Put simply‚ it involves students
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