Do you personally believe that taking the SATs and ACTs are really that nessesary for getting into college?

Question

This is for a homework assignment. Detailed answers please. :]

This is for an essay I have to write so I wanted to find out people's different opinions on this subject. Thaank youu. :]

Answer 1

personally, i don't think takings the sats and acts should be necessary for getting into college. first of all, taking some stupid tests aren't really accurate in showing somebody's academic talent. this girl in my class is ranked 3/60 and she got lower than a 1300 on the sat. some people are just not good test takers. i think colleges should focus more on grades and extracurricular activities. those are more accurate indicators of how well a student can perform.

but in reality, [if you live in california], you need to take the sats or acts to get into any cal state, uc or private. and in addition, you need to take the sat II to get into any uc or private.

Answer 2

I don't think there is any perfect way of measuring a student's potential for success in college but you might find this interesting. For my university, incoming students are of course tracked by gpa and SAT/ACT scores and also by portfolio review (for design majors.) Seven years of data is showing that the high SAT scores are a better indicator than the portfolio score for the eventual success in the design major.

I want to do more analysis of this, but it has been pretty consistent so far. In a way, I'm unhappy about this because I think there is too much emphasis on testing at the primary and secondary level.

So are these tests absolutely necessary? No. But in this small case it appears they do have some value in selecting potential students for the program.

Answer 3

well here in Australia with have the UAI (university admissions index) and i think it is useless in some things, less useless in others. If you want to be a doctor or engineer, and the course you want to get into needs a UAI of at least 97, and yours was 65, you may not be ready for it. But for courses like teaching, nursing, etc. there is no need for it.

also, if you go to university as a mature age student, the UAI is not needed anyway.

But if you're talking about tests that you take before graduation we have them too, the ASC or Australian School Certificate, but that has nothing to do with university.

But basically yeah, i think they are unnecessary. Which is probably why we don't have them here In Australia.

Answer 4

I think that the SATs & ACTs practically ,
they have the same function as an any other exam/test/quiz, they are given to assess you, to evaluate what you've learned, for colleges they're important, just another piece of the ticket for college/university, because it's not all about the SATs & ACTs.
Achieving high scores on them can help you prove yourself to a college of interest, to meet up to their standards
personally they're important to pass if you want to go to college/university, i'm junior and haven't taken the SATs

Answer 5

You are asking the wrong question. In the U.S., the SATs and ACTs are generally absolutely necessary for getting into anything but a community college. What you want to know, however, is whether they are good predictors of your ability to be successful in college. There is some evidence that they are not.

Answer 6

the universal public of faculties require the two the SAT or ACT. So if any of the colleges you have an activity in require the SAT then definite, you will desire to take it to get into those faculties.

Answer 7

Are they necessary? Yes, absolutely. My alma mater uses them together with your high school GPA as the first screening. Other things are also weighed, such as extracirricular activities, community service, and such, but the bottom line is that the university is all about education and if you can't pass a test well, you have little chance of succeeding at the University level.

Answer 8

If you're going to be too lazy to do your own homework, you won't need to worry about SAT scores coz you're never going to get into college