Word: scholasticism
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Ike always had been a little reckless. He was an exceptionally smart kid, but he took few things seriously. He was in rare form the day we took the Scholastic Aptitude Test. The Proctor gave us a five-minute break between sections, but Ike stayed in the hall for 15...
When Marius took the helm of the Expos Department seven years ago, he introduced a one-on-one tutorial program offered each spring for students who earn unsatisfactory grades in fall expos classes. Freshmen who score 550 or lower on the verbal part of the Scholastic have been placed in...
Of all the rites of passage faced by college-bound high school students, one of the most dreaded is the three-hour multiple-choice examination known as the Scholastic Aptitude Test. Prepared by the College Board and administered by the Educational Testing Service in the spring of junior year and...
The most interesting chapters, however, detail Owen's charge that the SAT measures "primarily the ability to take E.T.S. tests." He contends that this ability can be cram-coached by methods having little to do with scholastic aptitude. As principal evidence, he offers the work of Testing Coach John Katzman...
Owen, whose look "None of the Above: The Myth of Scholastic Aptitude" will hit the book stores later this month, charged that contrary for Educational Testing Service claims, success on the SAT doesn't indicate you are a good student-just a good test taker.