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"Standardized tests are designed such that preparing for the test isn't helpful." LSAT, MCAT, SAT and GMAT are all standardized tests that reward those who pre
by rahimnathwani 5y ago
"Standardized tests are designed such that preparing for the test isn't helpful."
LSAT, MCAT, SAT and GMAT are all standardized tests that reward those who prepare specifically for those tests.
I used a couple of books to prepare for the GMAT. I'm pretty sure that this preparation:
- helped me get a better score than I would have gotten without that specific preparation, and
- did not improve my 'aptitude in x, y and z' (the thing the test is designed to measure)
- drc500free 5y agoAgree on both points. I crammed a lot of grammar rules to improve my score, which was apparently was the thing I was missing to be a successful business person and totally not a classist barrier erected to exclude people without a private school education. This is the downside of any test that assumes aptitude means mimicking people who have already been successful in the field.