In my experience, SATs are one of the few good predictors of intelligence Published research agrees with this: http://psychology.uwo.ca/faculty/rushtonpdfs/20

In my experience, SATs are one of the few good predictors of intelligence Published research agrees with this: http://psychology.uwo.ca/faculty/rushtonpdfs/2006%20Intell%20Jackson%20&%20Rushton.pdf http://psychology.uwo.ca/faculty/rushtonpdfs/2006%20Intell%2... Although the SAT is widely believed to measure mainly academic achievement, Frey and Detterman (2004) have shown that it is an excellent measure of general cognitive ability (g). For example, they found that scores on the SAT correlated highly (0.82) with g extracted from the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB), as it also did with g loaded mental ability tests such as the California Test of Mental Maturity (0.82), the Otis–Lennon Mental Ability Test (0.78), the Lorge–Thorndike Intelligence Test (0.79), the Differential Aptitude Test (0.78), the Henmon– Nelson Test of Mental Maturity (0.65), the Coop School and College Ability Test (0.53), and the Raven's Ad- vanced Progressive Matrices (0.48; 0.72 when corrected for restricted range).