The Educational Testing Service (ETS) adopted the SAT I back in 1944. ... This paper will attempt to explain the history and make-up of the SAT I, as it is compared to the recent day SAT I Test. ... The history of the SAT has origins that date back to the First World War. ... When reviewing testing scores among the gender population, recent studies indicate that males, regardless of ethnicity, do better on the SAT I than their female counterparts (refer to Chart 1). ... In any event, there are studies that have tested the actual reliability and consistency of the ever controversial SAT I as a ...

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If we condone this behavior, these students will continue to rely upon their professor's rather than take the initiative to study. ... There are many instances where students with superb SAT or ACT scores are not getting accepted into universities due to that fact that athletes with substantially lower scores are admitted. ...

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There is that myth however that people admitted into the best UC's are a bunch of minority students with 3.0 GPAs and a low SAT score of 990. ... For example the freshman class of 1997; the last class to be admitted with affirmative action policies, admitted minorities with an average GPA of 3.9 and an average SAT score of 1240. ...

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