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wangdaning
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The SAT exam is a simple logic exam. Some parts are seriously biased to logic used by smaller groups. I never did test prep, and would discourage it overall.
I have taken too many standardized test. SAT, three SAT IIs, four AP exams, and the crap the state put though. Oh darn, took one for the US Navy and an oil refinery as well. I almost did the LSAT, but saw what a burden it would be to have that debt sitting over me. |
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buravirgil
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| Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2015 8:19 am Post subject: |
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| wangdaning wrote: |
| The SAT exam is a simple logic exam. |
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wangdaning
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| Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2015 11:25 am Post subject: |
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| Guess just experience. |
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Mikeylikesit114
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| Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2015 1:30 pm Post subject: |
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| buravirgil wrote: |
| wangdaning wrote: |
| The SAT exam is a simple logic exam. |
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Well, the exam used to be called the SAT 1 Reasoning Exam. It seems to me that reasoning is a synonym for logic, but maybe I'm just confused. |
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buravirgil
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| Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2015 2:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Mikeylikesit114 wrote: |
| buravirgil wrote: |
| wangdaning wrote: |
| The SAT exam is a simple logic exam. |
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Well, the exam used to be called the SAT 1 Reasoning Exam. It seems to me that reasoning is a synonym for logic, but maybe I'm just confused. |
Both the SAT and ACT "sell" their purpose as "intended to assess a student's readiness for college," and "measures high school students' general educational development and their capability to complete college-level work," respectively. (Wikipedia)
Other than some reductionist angle, what could you two be confused about that a search might not remedy? Both tests claim a measure of "reasoning" in various sections as a goal. The SAT first sold its value as not aligned with any one high school curriculum. To understand that, you have to go back further in US history and learn how college admissions were first conducted-- no national standards existed. They still don't because these assessments exist. The ACT was created to compete with the SAT. Prior to this, preparatory schools, their prestige, asserted the breadth and specificity of college admissions "tests".
In more recent history, what canonical works are sampled has been challenged and critical readings are more informational than in the past, except for the most "classic" of the "classics". I'd wager Frost is on there still, but not every cycle.
They are both surveys of American scholastic traditions. Their organization, metacommentary, and testing expressions are more aligned than dissimilar-- yet they are competitors. Changes in one precipitate changes in the other.
Why comment online what you think? When an answer is a few keystrokes away? I think you know the answer. |
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wangdaning
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| Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2015 11:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Wasn't aware this was another exam. |
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buravirgil
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Ah, okay. The British standard. Yes. I hope I haven't incorrectly asserted myself.
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Mikeylikesit114
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Troll.
| buravirgil wrote: |
| Mikeylikesit114 wrote: |
| buravirgil wrote: |
| wangdaning wrote: |
| The SAT exam is a simple logic exam. |
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Well, the exam used to be called the SAT 1 Reasoning Exam. It seems to me that reasoning is a synonym for logic, but maybe I'm just confused. |
Both the SAT and ACT "sell" their purpose as "intended to assess a student's readiness for college," and "measures high school students' general educational development and their capability to complete college-level work," respectively. (Wikipedia)
Other than some reductionist angle, what could you two be confused about that a search might not remedy? Both tests claim a measure of "reasoning" in various sections as a goal. The SAT first sold its value as not aligned with any one high school curriculum. To understand that, you have to go back further in US history and learn how college admissions were first conducted-- no national standards existed. They still don't because these assessments exist. The ACT was created to compete with the SAT. Prior to this, preparatory schools, their prestige, asserted the breadth and specificity of college admissions "tests".
In more recent history, what canonical works are sampled has been challenged and critical readings are more informational than in the past, except for the most "classic" of the "classics". I'd wager Frost is on there still, but not every cycle.
They are both surveys of American scholastic traditions. Their organization, metacommentary, and testing expressions are more aligned than dissimilar-- yet they are competitors. Changes in one precipitate changes in the other.
Why comment online what you think? When an answer is a few keystrokes away? I think you know the answer. |
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buravirgil
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