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He lobbied for a name change -- instead of measuring innate "Aptitude," the SAT should be called the Scholastic Assessment Test, he argued.
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Assessment was trotted out to replace Aptitude, though it did little more than render the word Test blandly redundant.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Whether the A stood for Aptitude or Assessment, all three words captured by SAT had been either directly or indirectly borrowed from Latin.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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For a long time, SAT was an abbreviation for Scholastic Aptitude Test.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Assessment was trotted out to replace Aptitude, though it did little more than render the word Test blandly redundant.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Whether the A stood for Aptitude or Assessment, all three words captured by SAT had been either directly or indirectly borrowed from Latin.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Aptitude was class-and culture-bound, and therefore biased, but ostensibly, reasoning is not.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Aptitude was class-and culture-bound, and therefore biased, but ostensibly, reasoning is not.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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For a long time, SAT was an abbreviation for Scholastic Aptitude Test.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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The one marshmallow child averaged 1052 on the Scholastic Aptitude Test, but, more so, was generally indecisive, impulsive, provoked arguments, a poor student and gave up easily.
Patrick Takahashi: The Stanford Marshmallow Test Patrick Takahashi 2011
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