Tapsearch Com EditorKill the SAT!!
July 14th 2007 14:38
Charles Murray, of all people, has an excellent article at The American making precisely that point. Not because "it's racist!" or "only the rich kids score well!" but for the very simple reason that other academic achievement tests better predict college grades.
Now, typically the argument from the SAT-college GPA correlation has been ludicrous. In situations like this it doesn't matter that the SAT doesn't predict GPA all that well; what matters is that it predicts GPA better than any other measure. High school GPAs depend on the school, for example, letters of recommendation all sound pretty chipper and essays can employ the help of tutors.
What Murray has done (drawing on some studies) is prove that not only is the SAT not perfect, but other tests are better.
Also, high schoolers take note:
Oops.
Now, typically the argument from the SAT-college GPA correlation has been ludicrous. In situations like this it doesn't matter that the SAT doesn't predict GPA all that well; what matters is that it predicts GPA better than any other measure. High school GPAs depend on the school, for example, letters of recommendation all sound pretty chipper and essays can employ the help of tutors.
What Murray has done (drawing on some studies) is prove that not only is the SAT not perfect, but other tests are better.
Also, high schoolers take note:
No student should walk into the SAT cold.
Oops.
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