Student Outlook on the SAT's
The Sat, scholastic assessment test, is used for colleges to measure what a student may be able to do on any given day. Colleges use it as a basis for whom they accept to their college. The SAT is administered by the ETS, or educational testing service. Overall, the SAT is a long, grueling test that tends to cause mostly anxiety among the test-takers. The SAT is a three hour-long test including two ten-minute breaks after Section Two and Section Four. The SAT is divided into 7 sections, which can appear in any order. The sections include: two thirty-minute Verbal sections with analogies, sentence completions, and critical reading, one fifteen minute Verbal section with critical reading, one thirty minute math section with quantitative comparisons and grid-ins, one thirty minute section with regular math, and another fifteen minute section with regular math. Included among the different sections is a thirty-minute experimental section, which could be either math or verbal, but this section does not affect the test-taker's score. The SAT is scored on a scale up to 1600, where you can gain a point for a correct answer, but lose a fraction of a point for an incorrect answer. You neither gain nor lose points for omitting a q
The majority of surveyed freshmen did not have much knowledge on the SAT, let alone an idea of how it may affect their future, as far as education is concerned. Additionally, at least a "C" on the SAT is equivalent to an 1100 on the test. However, as it stands, the test is long, grueling, and seems to just be another stress and anxiety cause in most students' lives. The majority of seniors are generally concerned about their scores on the SAT's. Perhaps the SAT's should not be used to determine whether or not you should be accepted to a certain college. However, some felt as if this was their year to actually begin training and preparing for the SAT's. They all generally asked, "Why is their so much importance on it, maybe the one day that you take the SAT's it was your "off" day?" The teachers agreed with mostly what all the students had said. On the other hand though, they felt that that SAT's should not only have no importance in their future, but also will not. The majority of juniors shared different views about the SAT then those of the freshmen and sophomores. Also included in your score is an automatic 200 points on both your Math and Verbal sections. They felt as if they would like to do well, but would not feel it was worth their time or effort to make an attempt to better prepare. At this point most students felt that the SAT should not be used in their future, and should not be weighted as heavily as it is. They agreed that if they did not do well on the SAT's, then perhaps they may not be able to go to what might be considered a "good" college, and therefore may not be able to get what might be considered a "good" job.
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