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To: LindyBill who wrote (625973)	2/17/2017 2:32:47 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 793916

Cunning filtering trick by the SAT people to keep out the people they dislike: << As more than six million high-school students do every year, I sat down to take the College Board’s SAT exam on Dec. 3, 2016. The test was going well until I reached the essay question, which asks students to assess how an author of an article supports his claims. The basic concept was easy enough, but I was surprised by the source our essay was supposed to be based on. We were asked to analyze a February 2014 Huffington Post article supporting the Family and Medical Insurance Leave Act. The author: New York’s junior senator, Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand, who had recently introduced the legislation.>> Just reading the article makes me queasy. There's an automatic difficulty in assessing how an author of such a sickening article supports their claims. Saying that they use LLL buzzwords to swing it would NOT be acceptable and would identify the candidate as the "wrong" type who would then be marked down for incorrect assessment. That's an effective method of lowering the score of the "wrong" candidates and increasing the relative score of those who are politically correct. Mqurice