Sat Indications - Can Sat Score Determine Students' Future?

Can SAT score determine students' future?

SAT Indications

Parents and teachers keep telling us to get good grades so that we would be able to apply to an elite university in order to get a prospective job that will pay us high salary, since we were young. Unfortunately, obtaining a high GPA throughout our school years does not mean that we will be able to get into a well respected university because most of them also require us to take one of the standardize test called "SAT". In the past, students who plan to take the SAT can only prepare for the test through self studying, which includes internet based learning materials, reading from an SAT exercise book, and studying from what they have learnt from school. In contrast, students can now take an intensive preparation course for SAT's, taught by tutors who are familiar with the test. Thus, they would have more chance in scoring higher on the test than those who did not take any of the preparation courses. Although scoring high on the test enables us to be able to apply to a famous university, how well we will do in the university still cannot be guaranteed through the score. In fact, to be able to understand the new things that will be taught in the university acquire us to have some level of knowledge, which a high SAT score does not prove that we have it or not. There are factors which can affect students before and during the test that can cause them to do poorly on it. In my opinion, SAT test scores cannot guarantee students' successfulness in university, because students might be distracted by problems during the test, some might not be able to afford for preparation courses, while others are far away and do not have access to SAT books causing them to score poorly on the test.

A standardize test widely known as "SAT" or "Scholastic Aptitude Test" is a test that is managed and developed by College Board(1901), a non-profit organization, and administer by the Educational Testing Service. SAT tests are use as college admissions because they are considered "standardize tests". The College Board states that the SAT measures writing and literacy skills that are needed for success in college. They also state that the SAT determines whether the students' have the skills needed to apply for college or not. Moreover, SAT is also shows how well students' can analyze and solve problems. In other words, the SAT is use to measure students' readiness for university.

...the SAT I is widely regarded as a test of basic mental

ability that can give us a picture of students' academic promise. Those who

support it do so in the belief that it helps guarantee that the students

admitted to college will be highly qualified. The SAT I's claim to be the "gold

standard of quality" derives from its purported ability to predict how

students will perform in their first year of college... (Atkinson, 2001)

There are three sections in the SAT test; writing, critical reading, and mathematics. Two of the sections made up of multiple choice questions. The total score is out of two thousand four hundred which calculated from the sum of each section, having each section's score ranging from two hundred to eight hundred. ("SAT", 2011)

The reason that SAT scores cannot guarantee students' successfulness in university is because they can be distracted by problems causing them to do the test poorly. Most of the students' take the SAT during 11th grade, which is around sixteen to seventeen-years-old.

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