An excerpt from The Princeton Review �Cracking the SAT� Foreword by Adam Robinson & John Katzman � 2003 Edition:
�In the past few years, the political landscape surrounding testing has changed. As our society has become more test-savvy, the ETS test writers have responded in more sophisticated ways. They have admitted that the SAT is not an intelligence test, and not really an assessment test, either. This is reflected in the recent name changes of this test. The test writers first changed the name of the test from �Scholastic Aptitude Test� to �Scholastic Assessment Test.� Later, they dropped the claim that it was an assessment test, and now it�s just called the SAT (which stands for nothing at all). Further, the College Board now not only admits that preparation is advisable but even recommends it. A College Board official recently remarked "Just as you wouldn�t want to take a driver�s test cold, you don�t want to go cold into the SAT."
Moi-mogan, Domnic Fernandes Anjuna/Dhahran, KSA
Brian Antao, Ph.D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
�..As a further recommendation, it would be also possible to eliminate the HSSC exam, and instead adopt the World recognized SAT (Standardized Aptitude Test) conducted by the Educational Testing Service (ETS) of Princeton, USA, for the standard XII students. Admissions for the various colleges in Goa would then be based on a weighted combination of a student�s performance on the SAT and their performance of their localized merit list in each of their individual Higher Secondary Schools. �..
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