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> This suggests to me that the SAT isn’t hard enough then That’s tricky. In a massive country with many incredible students, it seems to me that it’s going to
by l33t233372 4y ago
> This suggests to me that the SAT isn’t hard enough then
That’s tricky. In a massive country with many incredible students, it seems to me that it’s going to be possible for the top .1% of students to do as well as is possible on any reasonable exam.
Do you disagree?
- fallingknife 4y agoThen you have tiered exams. e.g. if you score >1500 on the SAT, you can take the harder SAT-2 which would be used for admissions to top schools.
- juve1996 4y agoDiminishing returns, really. As you continually test the margins will get smaller and smaller and the outcomes won't change much. Someone scoring >1500 on the SAT will likely just as well graduate from ivy league as someone who scored 1550.
- fallingknife 4y agoSomeone with a 1300 would do fine. But only because thy aren't as difficult as top schools should be because, as we see from their admissions policies, they are status and credentialing gatekeepers to elite status, not really top educational institutions.
- juve1996 4y agoRight - so does it really matter? If wealth is the ultimate playground for everything (capitalism?), then obviously the elite institutions are playing the right game.