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SAT Argument Essay

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That time when students must begin applying for university is quickly approaching. Many students are preparing to take standardized tests such as the SAT in order to get accepted into the university of their dreams. However, standardized tests such as the SAT do not properly assess the level of knowledge of students since equality is not the same as justice. Factors such as personal weaknesses and biological effects may not have been considered when standardized tests such as these were written or when it was decided that the SAT would be a major factor in being accepted into a university. Therefore, one's SAT scores should not be the most, or an, important factor in determining one's acceptance into university. Firstly, students, as human …show more content…

Although the SAT and other standardized tests say that their objective is to assess students on fair grounds, it clear is not an even playing field. Students that come from wealth families are able to afford help such as SAT prep-courses and/or even private, one-on-one, tutoring for the SAT thus greatly raising their marks. Srinivasa Ramanujan, for example, was unbelievably gifted at mathematics. He came from an impoverished family and could not attend school so had to teach himself math until the age of 17. At the age of 17, Srinivasa was offered a scholarship to a university which was later taken back because he had failed everything that was not math. Even without a formal education, he has made great contributions to the mathematic community. Now, although Srinivasa did not write the SAT test, he would have definitely failed the SAT test and would have been denied acceptance into any university due to the fact that he came from an impoverished family. Had the universities known of Srinivasa's unbelievable intellect, they would have definitely offered him a

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