I believe the ACT tests have been around for a while.
ok, I can only find that they started in 2005.
Too lazy to provide a link? (gotcha)
I am familiar with the SAT's.
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Both are supposed to give an indication as to how
'college ready' the kid is.
well, thank ye. I kinda, sorta knew that.
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But we got colleges waiving the minimum scores for
certain minorities so they can 'go to college' . . .
Where they are woefully under-prepared to get a good
education . . . And so the colleges water down the
curricula because it would be racist to flunk the
under-educated 'students' out.
Alriiighty then sounds like most athletes. Dumb as rocks.
The latest is this: because Asians are so naturally smart, they want to reduce entrance to colleges for Asians.
My sister-in-law is Chinese. She sent her eldest son to English school bec/ he only spoke Chinese when he came here....multi linguist.
Second son: spoke English as he arrived here several years younger. She sent him to Chinese school. Another multi linguist.
I'm sort of glad I have kind of mastered English, oh sigh.
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