[grania]

I'm with you. When I first SAT prepped was in the mid '80s. Those of us teaching in smaller rural schools got fed up with low scores keeping students out of schools they were more than qualified for. No adversity scores or accommodations were available. So, a friend and I put together our own SAT prep course and raised scores, a lot. We did it the old fashioned way. We taught the test taking skills and filled in background so the students know how do excel.

Adaptations, affirmative action, and now adversity scores are all bad news. They help less qualified students at the expense of the best candidates. They don't insist students reach their full potential, as they've already been told that they have less potential than others. It extends to later in life, where folks who've met lower expectations often have lower personal standards and/or qualifications for their careers. It affects every one of us when we depend on them to excel at their jobs.

[Chickensoup]

I recently glanced at some prep tests in a book.

IIRC way back when I took the SAT, and the GRE and the MAT Greek and Roman mythology were prominent in the questions.

it doesn’t appear so now.

I guess no one reads Hamilton’s or Bullfinch anymore.