Opinion: It's time for UC to stop using the SAT

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Opinion: It's time for UC to stop using the SAT (via latimesopinion)

in the U.S. have a college degree. The same pattern goes for Indians.

Research by the College Board, the organization that offers the SAT, has found that parental education and family income correlate strongly with student performance on standardized tests.And what does this test say about my son’s or any other student’s potential? It turns out, very little. Decades of research show that the SAT and ACT add little or nothing to the high school GPA’s prediction of a student’s performance in the first year of college.

Standardized admissions tests are weak predictors of student performance in the first year of college, and theirwith each subsequent year of college. In fact, high school grades are better predictors of students’ long-term college success and become even more meaningful after the first year. This makes good sense — college admissions officers can learn more from four years of a student’s academic records than from a four-hour-long test taken on a Saturday.

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