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Can someone explain what SAT are and what is the grading scale?

SAT=Stupid-Ass Test. It's basically a gigantic test you have to take in High School, and your grade is one of the most important factors in determining if you can get into college and, if so, what kind of college you go to. Grading scale is out of 2400. 

 

Generally, it's agreed to be absolutely f*cking idiotic because its English sections fail to have any bearing on whether or not you'll be successful, the essay is based on questions you'll never need to answer in your professional career, it's easy to game by using a few strategies (Which helps to entrench cross-generational income inequality because this means that those that score highest are typically the ones whose parents can afford hundred-dollar tutors who know all the tricks to arbitrarily increase your percentage without teaching you anything you'll need in college or that's useful in life), and it has significant cultural biases that have been shown to be generally harder for minorities to answer the questions.

 

But, luckily, it's supposed to stop sucking any minute now.

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SAT=Stupid-Ass Test. It's basically a gigantic test you have to take in High School, and your grade is one of the most important factors in determining if you can get into college and, if so, what kind of college you go to. Grading scale is out of 2400. 

 

Generally, it's agreed to be absolutely f*cking idiotic because its English sections fail to have any bearing on whether or not you'll be successful, the essay is based on questions you'll never need to answer in your professional career, it's easy to game by using a few strategies (Which helps to entrench cross-generational income inequality because this means that those that score highest are typically the ones whose parents can afford hundred-dollar tutors who know all the tricks to arbitrarily increase your percentage without teaching you anything you'll need in college or that's useful in life), and it has significant cultural biases that have been shown to be generally harder for minorities to answer the questions.

 

But, luckily, it's supposed to stop sucking any minute now.

"The best way to show my intelligence is by a fuc*ing useless standardized test"- said no child ever
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That was... A lot of swearing. And not funny. And also innacurate, to some extent. Yes, the rich and large corporations in the US have a disproportionate amount of power, but they don't control our government, they don't pick our politicians, they don't own us. They influence our government, they influence which politicians we pick, and they influence what choices we make in our lives, but they don't have complete and total domination over it. If they did own us, then Dodd-Frank wouldn't have been able to pass, Obama wouldn't have been elected president, corporate tax rates would be 0%, taxes would be flat, etc. Instead of making up ridiculous conspiracy theories bout us being "Owned," a better idea would be trying voting.

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