I remember those words as if it were today. "You must take the SAT's to get into college," said one of my high school teachers, "they won't even look at your application without the score." Later I found out that wasn't true. So this test that had very little of what I had studied in high school was to determine my whole future? It didn't seem right. So of course I got into several colleges with a score of 900 but it wasn't my score, because it was fairly low, it was just the college. Colleges lower on the level usually supply a placement exam before entering the college and determine where the student gets placed for English and math, which makes the SAT useless. But some colleges do look at the score and only go by that which leads me to my thesis that the SAT is a useless exam that should be banned.
"Its stupid. I took it twice and my score didn't increase by that much. I spent over a hundred dollars on study guides and taking the actual test and when it came to it, it was my 91 average score that got me into college and not the damn SAT. They covered nothing that I studied in school and I really don't see any need for it." This was Crystal Gemma, a 21-year-old Baruch student. She isn't the only one that feels this way. Molly Canrey believes that the SAT is a huge money making scheme. And I agree. When I took the SAT the whole first floor of the school was open to the SAT exam. There are about 40 rooms on the first floor where the exam was given with about 25 students in each room. That is only one school in Brooklyn; now count every school in the United States that gives the exam and results are in the millions. The SAT makes millions of dollars each time it is given. .
"I think the SAT should be canned. It doesn't follow any curriculum that is taught and it relies on itself to tell the student whether or not they are smart. Some students think that if they get a low grade on the SAT that their future is over, and I don't blame them for thinking like that.