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). ... In the 1960s a great amount of black students in selective colleges became a political issue Black college applicants scored below whites on all sort of tests. But whereas low scores on conventional achievement tests merely suggest that all black students were poorly prepared for college, low scores on something called an " aptitude" test suggest t...

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