“Who cares if someone has an IQ of 150 if they can’t even tell you how many amendments are in the Bill of Rights? “
They test for knowledge, not intelligence.
The Achievement tests and Advanced Placement tests measure knowledge.
The SAT is intended to measure college readiness, that is to say, intelligence or intellectual capacity.
Of course, it can't help testing knowledge in something like the vocabulary section, but that's not the test's main purpose.
From what I can find out, the ACT is also intended as a test of college readiness, but doesn't present itself as a measure of raw intelligence, as the SAT tries to.
Not really. The SAT is fundamentally an intelligence test, not a knowledge test.
Not any more.
It actually doesnt do a good job on either.