On: Life as a public school teacher in the San Francis...

[dehrmann]

> You really don’t need to pay anything to improve on the SAT these days

I heard something on This American Life, I think, about a "strong student" from a bad high school doing poorly on the SAT. I got the impression she hadn't prepared at all...which seems odd for a strong student when there are free resources.

> memorizing vocab

The College Board got called out for some of this after the "regatta" incident. It turns out rich kids were much more likely to know the term for a boat race. Oops.

I'm really curious to see the outcomes of the no-SAT cohort of college students, once the 2020-2021 year is ignored, data cleaned, etc. Even if GPA was enough in 2020, it seems like it would get harder and harder to compare schools over time without a standardized test.

[WalterBright → dehrmann]

The only question I recall from the SAT was about analogies. It required a knowledge of the contents of various liquor drinks, like a martini.

I was just a kid. I didn't hang out in bars. I had no idea what the contents of a martini were.

I thought it was unfair, and was so annoyed I still recall it :-)