"My 54- Year Love Affair with the SAt Reading Response"

 

•   I would say the central argument of the reading was about the SAT tests and throughout the years the test was made up different. So the author gave us examples on how the SAT expected students to know not the just the “what” of subjects, but more important “how and why.” The author also showed how the SAT effected education and students aspirations.
• I think the author Stanley Kaplan did an excellent job with getting the point across of why the SAT is important to the world of education as well as students. Some assumptions I noticed the author making was the changes of the SAT tests though out the years didn’t have the same influence as today because many colleges weren’t using the scores in an admission process just yet. I think the author shows the concept of understanding the SAT tests had tricky questions and even trickier answers with more than one good choice. Answering SAT questions requires focus, reasoning, and practice.

• I’m not really left with any questions, because if anything I learned new information from this article that I wasn’t too familiar with. I agree with the author. This is the first time I haven’t read an article and forgot what I was reading. I agree with the author that the SAT could predict how well a student would perform during the first six months of college, and it could safeguard against grade inflation and poor, less demanding curricula. I thought more about how the author is right high school teachers complained they couldn’t prepare students for such an array of tests such as the SAT because they can’t and won’t. A challenge teacher’s face in schools now days are giving students the tools they need to get the job done. Students need to be encouraged to keep on learning not discouraged.

• My golden line from this article would be “I had to keep students interested, keep them learning, keep them laughing, and –above all- build their confidence that they could succeed. I wanted them to love learning as much as I loved teaching.”  I picked this line because I feel it’s important for a student to have confidence, and it can’t get no better when it comes from a teacher who loves to teach from their heart.  A teacher wants to teach new information to students and guide them along the way, not let them down and make them feel worthless. You need a great teacher to fully understand a subject in school.