Personally I feel most standardized tests, including the SAT can be gamed. If you have the right teacher or book or w/e you should be able to learn how to get

Personally I feel most standardized tests, including the SAT can be gamed. If you have the right teacher or book or w/e you should be able to learn how to get a certain score. Granted a lot of people simply don't because they never learn the techniques properly. They should still take it into consideration, but more of as a baseline aptitude level, smart enough to actually get past a certain score, but it shouldn't be a ranking system based on performance on the test. More to weed anyone out who are so incompetent they can't figure out the basics. Like everyone above 75% mark should be considered equally, but people beyond that point aren't ranked based on their test scores. As in, if someone scores a perfect score but the only thing they've done is get good grades and get good test scores and someone else scores at the 75% mark but started a small business, or did something remarkable to help with a disaster, then the latter should take precedence in my book. After a certain point, IQ doesn't correlate with success either. Too much focus is placed on objective intelligence, when part of the objectivity is how well someone gamed it.