> For me this test truly only tests how good you are at that test. International students are a completely different story. As you say, your entire educational

> For me this test truly only tests how good you are at that test. International students are a completely different story. As you say, your entire educational experience had been in another language. This is not the case for students in the US. All students here have taken many multiple choice tests in English by the time they get to the SAT. For example, there are state- and federal-mandated tests that students must take. > Perhaps the SAT can be predictive of performance for those who grew up in the system that prepares you for the SAT (or ACT). For anyone else, this is however meaningless. It is perhaps close to meaningless for an international student, but for a student who went to school in the US, it is not meaningless at all.