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SAT

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Standardized test where affluent students increasingly receive accommodations like 200% extra time for anxiety, disadvantaging those without such dispensations.

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"And everyone knows the critical reading/verbal portion of the SAT was the harder section to get a high score on. Fewer people get perfect scores on AP English Lit and Language compared to the AP Calcs."
How did the humanities get the reputation for being for dumb people? · u/blueberrynutrigrain · ↑767 · 2023-05-31
"New paper by Chetty et al. It's "holistic admissions" and "ban the SAT/ACT" policy that allows the most wealthy and powerful to virtue signal while getting an edge."
"you're basically FUCKED if you have high aspirations and go into these tests without applying for any sort of dispensation, because the affluent parents of your peers with similar aspirations have already gotten them 200% extra time up to unlimited with breaks, because of a doctor's note about how m"
"I have lurked on this page for a really long time but still not sure if this is the right forum but whatever. I'm complaining on Reddit because it's a BS problem to have. Overall tutoring is a good gig so I can't really complain but these families are psycho. Multiple times if I don't respond to som"
I SAT tutor for neurotic rich families · u/wannabeprofessor18 · ↑315 · 2025-07-09
"For a lot of kids who don't have the time to devote all their extra free time into school clubs, sports, or ass kissing teachers might actually rely on getting good SAT/ACT scores to get into better schools."
"Prior working as an LSAT tutor I would have said SAT/ACT/LSAT/MCAT are all just tests of how well you prepared for the test and/or how much help you had."
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