Why bother with the test. Why not just ask a few questions like: are you a minority. If yes, what combined (means added together)total score does your college choice require?
If answer to first question is no, proceed to part one.
How will they know if you guessed?
I am so sick and tired of everything being dumbed down and made “non-competitive” supposedly to benefit blacks. They’re as smart or as dumb as anybody else, and they have to do what everybody else is supposed to do, have an idea of excellence and attempt to reach it. In fact, when challenged (as in the charter schools), they do as well as anybody else.
This benefits only the teachers in the public school system, who have yet another excuse for their failure to be able to teach (anybody of any color). Actually, some of the teachers may be fine and very sincere, but the entire union-oriented system is what prevents kids from learning.
“The SAT is called an instrument of privilege because students from higher-income families perform better.” Then explain to me why my son-in-law from a VERY low income family scored a 32 on his SAT? Oh right, it’s because he is white...
>> The SAT is called an instrument of privilege because students from higher-income families perform better.
Nothing to do with genetics of course.
What we need are equal results, not equal opportunities. We could just make it a lottery, to be completely fair. And then adjust the results when we don’t like what we get.
There are only two ways to get rid of the achievement gap.
You can make the test so easy everybody aces it = no gap.
You can make it so hard everybody fails = no gap.
Any test that actually measures something will have roughly the same gap.