"Getting good grades in school, taking challenging classes, being in hundreds of clubs, working and doing hours of community service as well as taking the ACT and the SAT simply isn't enough," says Tom Brown an admission director at Harvard College. Colleges and ACT have come together to create the all new ACTT. ... The new standardized test comes with reading, math, english, writing, science, and social studies. ... The new math portion will be broken up into algebra, geometry, trigonometry, precalculus, and statistics. ... This new ACTT will take three 8-hour seasons to complete. ...

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The SAT was developed in the 1930s to help selective colleges identify talented students from mediocre high schools who performed poorly on traditional achievements tests because they had not studied the relevant subject matter (Asberry 1997). ... The SAT designers therefore tried to create a test that was relatively sensitive to whether a student had attend a strong or weak secondary school. ... The content on the SAT is bias. ... If test like Stanford Binet and the SAT emphasized domains in which blacks were usually disadvantaged, one would have reason to think there tests ere biased agai...

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