> The real solution is to design a test that you can't study for effectively. There's a very strong pressure against that. The analogy section of the SAT was a

> The real solution is to design a test that you can't study for effectively. There's a very strong pressure against that. The analogy section of the SAT was a proxy IQ test, though more study-able than Raven's Matrices. People objected to the parts that could be studied (infamously, "runner : track :: oarsman : regatta"), but the solution was to drop the entire section and preserve only the more learnable portions. Which is frustrating, because as far as I know it undermined your last comment - SAT scores are actually more responsive to wealth than they used to be, because factors like study and the quality of the local math department are more important.