“Such tests are blind to a student’s high school record—instead, they are intended as an independent, objective measure of college “readiness”.” Claiming that

“Such tests are blind to a student’s high school record—instead, they are intended as an independent, objective measure of college “readiness”.” Claiming that the SAT measures “college readiness” is complete and utter bullshit. The SAT measures intelligence and the College Board knows it. “College readiness” is a liberal euphemism. It actually turns out that if you try to test specific skills (I think the writing section kind of falls in this category) instead of overall intelligence, the results are less predictive for whatever purposes the test is being used for, since specific skills can be learned, whereas overall intelligence is largely stable and has broad effects. The fact that scores cannot be significantly improved by coaching is evidence that the SAT does in fact largely measure intelligence.