Eric Karlan
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first heard May 2019
last heard May 2019
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And when we talk about the SAT and ACT, they are...
they're obviously testing material that high school students should know.
But what's interesting is when you really break down the content on each section of the test, for instance, on the ACT, there's four sections, English, math, reading, and science.
And when we talk about English, it's grammar, which we know that high school classes, they're not exclusively focused on teaching grammar.
And then you have math,
which covers pre-algebra, algebra 1, algebra 2, geometry, and some very basic level trig and pre-calc.
Reading is just reading a passage and answering questions about the passage.
And the science section is the one that sounds a bit deceiving in name because you really don't need to know science to do the science section.
It's actually just interpreting graphs and data that happens to have
science-y, as I joke, science-y or scientific terms on the graphs.
So it's a skill set for sure, but it's not that you need to take chemistry or that you need to take US history to do well in the SAT and ACT.
So a growing movement that we're seeing at universities across the country is what we call test optional schools, where students have the option of submitting the SAT and ACT
but they also have the option to not submit their standardized tests and then be considered holistically, you know, with no standardized tests.
Many times if you choose the test optional option, there could be an additional writing requirement or you need to submit a research paper.
There's just something else to take its place on the application.
There's, as you can imagine, so many parents and students who are
very excited when they hear about the universities, the increasing number each year that become test optional.
The one word of caution in, you know, awareness that I share with families, though, is you can certainly take that, take advantage of that test optional system, but you really need to have strong grades.
You can't have
grades that are towards the middle or below the 50th percentile for universities accepted students and then not submit the standardized scores as well.
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