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2005/5/16-17 [Academia/OtherSchools] UID:37716 Activity:nil
5/16    Director of undergraduate writing at MIT thinks the new SAT is lousy:
        http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2005/05/17/sat/index.html
        \- the last two lines are pretty funny. "the SAT is divided into
           3 parts ... i came, i saw, i bullshitted" --psb
           \_ Better than "I came, I peed, I shitted".
           \_ Sounds like it really is measuring ability to succeed in US
              universities then.
              \_ Not to mention the ability to climb the corporate ladder.
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The newly expanded version of t he Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), first offered in March, has three sec tions: math, verbal and really verbal. On top of filling in row after ro w of infernal unblinking ovals -- many of them in a whole new section on English grammar and usage -- students must also write an impromptu essa y, from scratch, in 25 minutes. As it turns out, some students who took the test on May 7 did not feel en tirely unprepared. "On the way to the test we had just heard about the M IT study that connected the length of the essay to the scores," says Emi ly Rackleff, a junior at Newport High School in Newport, Ore. Want to read the rest of this article and all of Salon for FREE?. Just watch a brief advertisement to get a FREE Site Pass for today. Or you can join Salon Premium today and rea d Salon without ads.