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Last year, there were more than 55,000 applicants. 16,466 students were accepted to fill 4,486 available spaces.
Already people are figuring out how to game the system
they’re already doing it - just find a doctor/therapist to write up an excuse and your kid can get extra time to take the test…
From one of the wealthier suburbs of Chicago…
https://newtriernews.org/...es-national-average/
“According to documents posted on New Trier’s website, 226 of 935, or** **24 percent, of Juniors taking April’s school wide ACT received some sort of accommodation for the test, a number confirmed by administrative staff.”
national average is for 5% of Juniors to get accomodation.
Should I even ask why you’re reading a HS paper?
I personally feel all accommodation should be abolished
I totally agree they shouldn’t accommodate those blind kids buy allowing them to use a braille test.
But I assume you were talking about the extra time. Why not just give all the kids extra time? Doesn’t help kids who don’t need accommodation anyway.
Already people are figuring out how to game the system
they’re already doing it - just find a doctor/therapist to write up an excuse and your kid can get extra time to take the test…
From one of the wealthier suburbs of Chicago…
https://newtriernews.org/...es-national-average/
“According to documents posted on New Trier’s website, 226 of 935, or** **24 percent, of Juniors taking April’s school wide ACT received some sort of accommodation for the test, a number confirmed by administrative staff.”
national average is for 5% of Juniors to get accomodation.
Should I even ask why you’re reading a HS paper?
I personally feel all accommodation should be abolished
I totally agree they shouldn’t accommodate those blind kids buy allowing them to use a braille test.
But I assume you were talking about the extra time. Why not just give all the kids extra time? Doesn’t help kids who don’t need accommodation anyway.
Because in the real world you don’t get extra time.
I get extra time whenever I want. Just need to stay after at work.
The SATs have nothing to do with the real world.
Why can’t employers have their own adversity score post graduation?
That will be all sorts of fun! Interesting that race is not one of the criteria. I see this as hastening the end of standardized tests.
I heard that they tried a similar thing a number of years ago that did have race as a factor. Didn’t last long.
I just hope they let me know my airplane pilot’s or heart doctor’s adversity score.
Don’t worry, the FAA is already working on it for air traffic controllers:
Under the new standards, candidates who have been unemployed for three years or more and did poorly in high school science scored appreciably higher than licensed pilots and those with post-high school air traffic controller training… Individuals with specialized degrees from aviation schools and military veterans are still able to apply under the new rules. But before taking the traditional skill test examining an individual’s aptitude for working in air traffic control, all applicants must now first pass a controversial biographical questionnaire, an online pass/fail test in which the FAA has refused to release the scoring metrics or each applicant’s actual score.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-air-traffic-controller-hiring-met--20140919-story.html
I get extra time whenever I want. Just need to stay after at work.
The SATs have nothing to do with the real world.
For 99.9999 percent of jobs it’s also not rapid fire know the answer or get it wrong questions.
I get extra time whenever I want.
Must be nice
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Holy shit!
My son just received the scores on his first SAT test. He did almost no studying and got 800 math and 640 reading and writing.
He want to do my gmat for me?
He’s 16 years old. I don’t think the proctor would think he is you.
Minor detail. Probably a work around if we think hard enough … does he row crew or play tennis?
drn92
Soccer, wrestling, and baseball.
Because in the real world you don’t get extra time.
As stated above, it depends on the job. I get as much time as I want as well.
The purpose for accommodation is for people with learning disabilities. As an example, I had an algebra student who was getting a D in my class. For the final they suggested that she take the test in a quiet room with extra time. She practically aced the final. Yes, there will be many jobs in life where she won’t be able to just take special accommodations, but as far as algebra is concerned, she’s an A student, not a D student.
I’m another example. I’m dyslexic and have ADD. There’s a lot of things in my job that I suck at (reading emails), but there’s other things that I’m amazing at (math, programming, etc.). My managers were smart enough to put me into rolls where I excelled and not rolls where I suck.
And not once have I ever had to sit in a room and answer a bunch of questions on a test within a small window of time.
I just hope they let me know my airplane pilot’s or heart doctor’s adversity score.
That’s not the way it works. A job requires proficiency. School requires potential.
I wonder if any of the 15 adversity markers include:
1.) partying all night before the test
2.) just not being into studying that much right now
3.) being too cool to give an f
4.) excessive knocks to the head during HS football career
5.) swim coach requiring excessive hours training so you can’t do other things
6.) public schools vs private schools
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I just hope they let me know my airplane pilot’s or heart doctor’s adversity score.
The general idea is if Bobby got screwed by a deadbeat dad and in lower quality school with lots of household responsibilities managed to get a 1440 on his SAT and George had private tutors at his private school where they served his meals, did his laundry and studying was his only real responsibility and he got a 1460- perhaps Bobby can hold his own against George academically.
If I get the adversity scores and they have similar performance scores I might choose the one who I know can perform with the deck stacked against them personally.
And like I said above, Bobby isn’t going to operate on your heart. He gets admitted to the school to learn how to do it in 12 years. If he’s truly not good enough, then he won’t make it through the program.
And like I said above, Bobby isn’t going to operate on your heart. He gets admitted to the school to learn how to do it in 12 years. If he’s truly not good enough, then he won’t make it through the program.
At what point is he washed out if he keeps getting an accommodation or gets admitted with a lower score because of adversity?