the SAT is extraordinarily easy to game
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Replying to @swimming_blerd
sure if youre the sort of person who could crush the sat anyway
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Replying to @eigenrobot
the time (and resources) high school students spend gaming the SAT take away from other, more meaningful pursuits high school students end up less prepared for college in the end, college work suffers
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Replying to @swimming_blerd
probably the question is: are SATs easier to game than other tests? I doubt it idk strivers are gonna game whatever you put in front of em classes included
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Replying to @eigenrobot @swimming_blerd
like man the shit I saw premed students do
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Replying to @eigenrobot
premeds get blown out the fuck out by ochem, and rightfully man the people who make it can only make it because they've been doing the requisite coursework for years; focusing on the SAT incentives the opposite--quick gain, versus longer, more difficult to develop skills
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Replying to @swimming_blerd @eigenrobot
incentivizing students to take harder classes, earlier, helps everyone in the end, improving the quality of ed they get further down the line generally the more of the "college" curriculum you can push back down (where it belongs), the better
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Replying to @swimming_blerd
I pretty generally agree with this, and also I think the obvious solution if you go the follow the logic trail is "get rid of existing schools and replace them with nonmandatory skill-based certification"
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Replying to @eigenrobot
no, skill-based certification cynically misconstrues what education is supposed to do it's not about getting certifications, it's about learning things which enable you to solve problems and teach ppl (in improvised, extemporaneous ways); you have to learn *how* to learn things
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Replying to @swimming_blerd @eigenrobot
it's really, really hard to predict exhaustively what skills are relevant to any enterprise or discipline to progress beyond mediocrity, you often h need to learn things beyond your "zone", but educational system only pretends to believe this, which is as bad is just denying it
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I think people who are into that tend to seek out ways to do it, and people who aren't, won't, no matter how many lectures you force them to sit through
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