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Article: The SAT is tested and found wanting
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 18, 1989
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Across the country, high school students' alarm clocks ring at 5
a.m., perhaps the earliest ever on a Saturday morning. But then this
isn't the usual Saturday morning. This is a Scholastic Aptitude Test
morning, when hundreds of thousands of high school juniors and
seniors take the SAT hoping to score high enough to get into the
college of their choice.
Each year, 1.7 million students take the three-hour,
multiple-choice test, many for the second or third time. Some take
the test even more times. A few years ago, 18 percent of the 10,000
applicants to the Naval Academy reported four sets of scores. Two
percent reported eight or more. One eager applicant took the test 19
times.
The SAT ...