$2.5 billion dollars. What could the United States do with $2.5 billion to help our world? Well, “a 2009 report from Eduventures calculated that about 2 million students spend $2.5 billion a year on test preparation and tutoring” (Briody, pg.2).
Standardized tests, such as the SAT/ACT, were created to compare students and give college admissions a solution to determine if the applied student would be “right” for the college. However more recently, colleges have been heavily relying on standardized test scores as the determining factor for admissions. It has led to a lot of disagreement; some believe that the SAT/ACT is a good intelligence test, others think that the SAT/ACT is not a fair measure of student’s skills, while the rest argue that subject tests, IB, and AP tests should be the scores used for college admissions.

One side argues that the SAT/ACT is a fair, just and unbiased way of nationally comparing students. Studies reveal that the SAT/ACT is a good prediction of future success; as “Vanderbilt researchers David Lubinski and Camilla Benbow have documented …show more content…
Some argue it is fair, while others disagree arguing it is biased, while others recommend new solutions for colleges to compare students based on their subject/IB/AP test scores. Although the controversy over standardized testing may seem like a small issue, it is actually quite the opposite, as our childhood education are the roots to our adulthood life and career. While some families have more advantages than others, due to socioeconomic status, a standardized test which many students can pay to get a higher score, creates limitations for opportunities of higher learning, for students who cannot afford the same resources. Overall, colleges should determine an unbiased way to nationally compare students, so that regardless of any factors, each student has an equal chance of scoring