College Preparation

The College Board claims that the SAT and ACT test transferable skills like reading comprehension and logical inference. And the truth is, students who read well will likely perform well on College Board exams. But the test prep industry survives and succeeds due to the assumption that students can be trained to beat the test–that special knowledge of testing traps will help students improve their score without improving their reading skills, logical reasoning, or education in general. There is far more–or perhaps far less–to the SAT than the skills it claims to assess.