The SATs have often showed inconsistencies in the scores of different ethnicities and sexes. These gaps in test scores have been documented over the years and are applicable to various standardized tests but are most apparent in SAT I test scores. ... I believe that income does play a role into SAT scores, but will address that issue later. ... In addition to this, the admissions process will include the use of SAT II scores. ... From this, it is evident that a student's feats cannot be determined simply by an SAT score....

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But what does these score tells us? Are they academically smart because they have high score? ... According to a journal in Student Test Scores, a Wider Gap, African-Americans score increased to 6 points in the SAT verbal and 7 points higher in math in the past 10 years. ... Financially it is hard for the minorities to encourage taking the SAT without having preparation. ... Also in Texas" universities, there's going to be a new law that will disregard the students" score from the SATs and more into the academic background. ...

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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. ... The score is obtained by subtracting errors from total ceiling score. When PPVT-R standard scores are compared to PPVT IQS, WISC-R IQS, and Stanford-Binet IQS, the mean PPVT-R scores have been significantly lower. ... Psychologists say that a test suffers from predictions bias when blacks and whites with the same score on the test- the SAT, for example perform difficulty on the outcome that they are trying ...

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It seemed to me that all the schools, teachers, and students were all focused on preparing for the standardized tests; such as SAT's or the Regents in New York State, and not focusing on the art of learning, creativity and so on. ... This implies for example, that the same person taking a different form of the test will tend to make close to the same score. ...

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When intelligence is mentioned, people typically imagine books, high test scores, and Ivy league colleges. Similarly, others believe standardized test scores tell you how intelligent a person is, and your GPA is all that matters. ... Although the arts are not featured on the ACT/SAT, and they are not required school subjects, they actually require just as much thinking as math and science. ... One person may say that scientists and doctors are the the most intelligent because they find research and information that saves lives, but another might say musicians and artists are the most intellig...

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