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Re:Harvard won’t require SAT or ACT through 2026 as test-opt... by cycrutchfield on Friday December 17, 2021 @11:27PM (#29601648)
Sorry, your belief is that some easily gameable standardized test correlates well with merit, particularly at the higher percentiles of the distribution?
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Re:Harvard won’t require SAT or ACT through 2026 as test-opt... by gameman144 on Saturday December 18, 2021 @12:09AM (#29601853)
I mean, if it's "easily gameable", why doesn't everybody just game it? There exist real score differences in practice.

You can say that it's "gameable" in response to time and resources spent studying, but that's actual learning, so of course that would result in higher scores.

It's one thing to say "Some people don't have enough time/resources", but it's another to pretend that these tests carry no signal.

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Re:Harvard won’t require SAT or ACT through 2026 as test-opt... by cycrutchfield on Saturday December 18, 2021 @12:24AM (#29601920)
Studying for how to game the SATs is not actual learning, in the sense of being generalizable knowledge or skills. It is learning how to game the exam.

It is also incredibly time and resource dependent, as you have surmised. Guess which strata of society tends to come out on top in that environment?

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