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I don't think that's true. The SAT has, among others, math questions. And it tests reading comprehension. Reading and math both take practice to learn and impro

I don't think that's true. The SAT has, among others, math questions. And it tests reading comprehension. Reading and math both take practice to learn and improve. This is so well known and obvious, I find it hard to believe such questions would be included if the goal was that practice would not help. But let's suppose that, like for the IQ test, that was the goal. What do we do if we can't perfectly reach that goal? Weaken the test further?

Dylan16807 4y ago
> Reading and math both take practice to learn and improve. But that's the thing, the test wants to look at your baseline level. If it was flawless then you wouldn't be able to do any practice that's SAT-specific. > This is so well known and obvious, I find it hard to believe such questions would be included if the goal was that practice would not help. Do you have a better alternative? I don't find it hard to believe that they didn't say "Oh, being perfect on this axis would require magic? Better quit entirely." > What do we do if we can't perfectly reach that goal? Weaken the test further? No...? Nobody suggested weakening the test... Oh, maybe the misunderstanding is when you said "the goal" is that practice would not help. No, that's not "the goal". It's a secondary goal. They wouldn't ruin the test just to dunk on practice. Measuring ability in an exploitable way is the closest they can get to their goals right now.