On a Saturday morning once a month, high schoolers wake up to take a three hours and fifty minutes test. Three weeks later they get their results. The four digit score will determine where that student goes to college. But is this the way it should be in America? Or should it be revamped? Some may argue that the SATs have been put in place to measure the preparedness of the student to move off to college and take college-level classes. It is a reliable test since it has been derived from the IQ test; thus, this single test has the ability to test innate intelligence and perseverance since it is such a long test. Furthermore, it gives students another chance to prove their skills outside of the classroom and outside of extracurricular activities. It provides the colleges with an easy …show more content…
On the other hand, many argue that the test system should be changed. Test discriminates against minorities, including African Americans, Latinos, and women. Through various studies, it has been proven that women tend to score forty points lower than men. African Americans score two hundred points lower, while white males score the highest. The test scores can be connected back to income as underprivileged students get lower scores than students that are wealthy. Thus, the test does not reveal how smart you are, rather only grading the students on how well they can do on one test and does not reveal anything else. Although every student in America takes the SAT, should it remain that way?
Between the struggles of getting through the practices in the book and absorbing all the information, each student only has one question in their mind, “why do we have to take the stupid SAT test?” The Scholastic Aptitude Test is often mistaken as an accurate test which measures our intelligence. Although that is not the case, the widely known test not only measures your academic abilities, but also your dedication on learning new information without any assistance. You do not