What I hate about the SAT's (who agrees) Options

[JerzDevil]

1)They are too long. 2400? Why not cut it down to like 1400 instead?

2)Why do they have time limits? That's the biggest thing I hate about the SAT's. SAT's require students to do the testing slowly with much concentration in their best efforts to do well and pass. Each section is like 25 minutes. That is too short. Also, the sections are pretty long with long passages and hard questions that require a lot of thinking. The time limit should be like 45 minutes per section.

3)They are pointless. If a student got straight a's with like one B (not saying I did) throughout his whole 4-year high school career, why does the SAT's matter to him and the college he or she's applying to. . Grades are more important and he/she should definetely get into a good college.

[ersatz]

I don't really study for my finals that much either unless I've completely forgotten something that's supposed to be on it. I think I didn't do that well on the Literature one because the English classes offered at my school are really generalized and not too in-depth. That's not an excuse, just that the other people taking them applying to the same schools I am generally have AP Lit or something where they would learn skills needed to apply to that test. The Math one, I'm not entirely sure what went wrong on. Maybe I was just having a bad day.

[*CowerPointyObjects*]

I don't really study for my finals that much either unless I've completely forgotten something that's supposed to be on it. I think I didn't do that well on the Literature one because the English classes offered at my school are really generalized and not too in-depth. That's not an excuse, just that the other people taking them applying to the same schools I am generally have AP Lit or something where they would learn skills needed to apply to that test. The Math one, I'm not entirely sure what went wrong on. Maybe I was just having a bad day.

I don't either, but that doesn't mean that I shouldn't. Actually, I studied (er, a little) for all my finals last semester (as opposed to just the classes I wasn't doing well in), and my grades were better than the grades I usually make on easier finals.