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Education

aswanson

(50 posts) Mon Feb 8, 2016, 12:38 AM Feb 2016

Standardized Testing

What do you think about ACT, SAT, and GRE scores? Should they or should they not be used in the college admissions process?

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Standardized Testing (Original Post) aswanson Feb 2016 OP

I was an almost straight A student in high school and college bluestateguy Feb 2016 #1

Mostly they're predictive of success in the first couple years of college. Igel Feb 2016 #2

bluestateguy

(44,173 posts)

1. I was an almost straight A student in high school and college

Reply to aswanson (Original post)

Mon Feb 8, 2016, 12:48 AM

Feb 2016

Yet my scores on those fucking tests were slightly better than mediocre.

It probably cost me admission to the Ivy League.

Igel

(36,010 posts)

2. Mostly they're predictive of success in the first couple years of college.

Reply to aswanson (Original post)

Tue Feb 9, 2016, 08:39 PM

Feb 2016

Like all statistical tools, however, they don't predict an individual's success.

They work best in conjunction with high school GPAs, where they serve as a balance to grade inflation and outright falsification. Don't know how the revised tests will work.

I don't think SAT and ACT scores should be used to evaluate high schoolers in general, which is where I think they're heading.

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