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To: j g cordes who wrote (34547)	4/12/1999 4:38:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I would like to see a much higher priority placed on actual classroom work and on tests administered in the ordinary course of study, and a lower priority placed on the standardized test. The reason, as I stated before, is that standardized tests cannot measure the most important factors in performance: personal discipline and work habits. Would you like to have a surgeon who tests brilliantly, but can't keep his hands off a bottle? I approve absolutely of grades. I simply don't believe that standardized tests are effective at measuring students' abilities to perform. I would rather have a subjective measure of actual performance than a supposedly objective measure of highly theoretical "aptitude". On the SAT: I scored nearly as high as it is possible to score, and dropped out of every college I went to. My sister's scores were so low that no decent American university would consider her. She ended up at McGill (Canadians were at that time less picky about these things), where she achieved a 4.0 average across 4 years. If she hadn't come from an academic family that knew how to evade irrational cutoffs and knew how to accurately judge her academic potential, she'd have ended up in the local community college. I think this happens more often then we like to admit.