A single second is a very small amount of time, but in a race it can be the difference between winning and losing. When you're in a competition with a thousand

A single second is a very small amount of time, but in a race it can be the difference between winning and losing. When you're in a competition with a thousand other people whose scores are almost the same as yours, 30 points can be huge. And it should be noted that they changed the tests before these studies too. > Many of the key studies of coaching effects were based on kids who took the SAT or ACT in the 1990s and 2000s, Briggs told me. The tests have since been changed a fair amount, in an effort to make them more like statewide achievement tests and to minimize their similarity to intelligence tests.