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That's not how it plays out in practice. There is overwhelming evidence that students who otherwise excel academically score fairly mediocre SAT scores on their
by Maxatar 4mo ago
That's not how it plays out in practice. There is overwhelming evidence that students who otherwise excel academically score fairly mediocre SAT scores on their first attempt and then jump substantially after weeks of targeted practice and/or tutoring, even though they didn't learn anything new in the classroom.
If attention in class were all it took then that improvement couldn't happen. What changed was familiarity with the test, not classroom focus.
- fsckboy 4mo agoI'm not aware that there is any method to dramatically increase SAT scores (and neither IQ test scores). could you point me to your sources?
- Maxatar 4mo agoStraight from the College Board themselves: https://research.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/osp-technical-report.pdf https://research.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/osp-technical-re... That report also references another study showing that each hour of tutoring was associated with an increase of 2.34 points on the SAT score which unfortunately is behind a paywall: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282492223_Preparing_students_for_college_admissions_tests https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282492223_Preparing...
- WalterBright 4mo agoI guess times have changed. When I took the SAT, I did zero prep work. Nobody else I knew did prep work, either. Paul Graham recently posted SAT advice along the form of "when you finish the test and have more time, go back over the test and check for mistakes." I was kinda astonished at this advice, isn't it obvious? A strategy I also employed was to do the easy problems first, so I don't miss a question that would have been easy. Apparently this has to be explained to people? I suppose prep work would be fine for the students who didn't pay attention in class.
- Maxatar 4mo agoYes, if you took your SAT among a cohort of people where none of you practiced for the SAT, then what you're saying holds true. That's not really the case anymore. Top tier students nowadays prepare for the SAT, they don't go into it blind and haven't done so for the better part of 20 years.
- WalterBright 4mo agoI didn't get a perfect score, but it was good enough to get what I wanted.
- gf000 4mo agoWell, then what if someone with a better score got the job you were going for, even though they are not smarter, just prepared more for the test?
- WalterBright 4mo agoI'd get the jobs I wanted by bringing samples of my work to the interview.
- blitzar 4mo agoAn interview ... with scores like that?!
- s5300 4mo ago[dead]