I’ve taken and passed both the SAT and the GRE, and in neither case did each have any bearing whatsoever on my college and post-graduate success. I just busted my butt to pass them, and that was about it. Worthless.
“I’ve taken and passed both the SAT and the GRE, and in neither case did each have any bearing whatsoever on my college and post-graduate success.”
There are no “passing grades” for the SAT and GRE. They are meant to show college or grad school aptitude. Not surprisingly those who score a 1600 do better than those who score 800.
Those tests allowed a very poor boy to go to both college and medical school.
Umm, they showed that you can and will study hard, that you can communicate effectively enough for the university setting, that you are adept at test-taking, and they allowed the schools to compare approximately how well you do at such tasks compared to a few million other applicants. It helps them sort out who might be more likely to succeed at their schools. A 700 SAT, a 1500 SAT, and a 2300 SAT score all indicate VERY different things about those 3 students. No indicators are perfect or 100% accurate, but these tests are good enough to help schools make their choices.
After all these years, I still have never had to actually calculate the volume of a sphere, but I do know how!