FEELING TESTED

The College Board controls university-admissions exams in the U.S., but the pandemic has thrown its core product, the SAT, into disarray. Readers sent the troubled putative nonprofit straight to detention.

JOHN SCALIA: “Seems like everything ‘standardized’ is implicitly racially biased. Test takers either know the material or they do not. Forbes doesn’t mention if there are studies that correlate SAT/ACT scores with college success.”

JAMES LONIER:

“I think the only people

who liked these tests were college administrators who didn’t want to have to make actual [admissions] decisions.”

@PASHA_.26:

“[The College Board] is a proper monopoly—also, its online [Advanced Placement] exam was a massive fail.”

@ADAM.DUNLAP:

“The SAT is an IQ test. Nothing more.”

@MINDYBR99939350:

“Both the SAT and ACT may become less-used as colleges and universities seek alternative methods on acceptance of students.”

@JJANSEN1234:

“The USA has to reexamine [the College

Board’s] nonprofit situation. If you’re making a profit, maybe you’re not a nonprofit.”

MICHAEL ROCK: “Damn this test!”