We're here to raise your scores. And depending on what class you walk into--if you're a 600 level math student and we want to get you a 700, then this course has nothing to do with math. It is--you know the math. It has to do with being a good test taker. If you're a 300 level math student and you really don't know how to add fractions, then we're a math course. It really depends on where you walk in. But the fact is, that for most of our students the problem is more the SAT itself than it is their math skill, their English skill or their ability to do college level work. Not every student. When you walk into a Princeton class, do they tell you that there are certain tricks?

Well, for instance, the Advanced Placement Tests. They are rigorous. They're difficult. There are lots of them. You can say, my interest is history. And so I'm going to take a history Advanced Placement test. And I'm going to get--I want kids to be rigorous. I want curricula to be rigor to be rigorous. But I want them to be not one size fits all and not mindless. Like, let's have kids studying hard but let's have them studying something useful, hard. Let's talk about what you do.

Right. That's where all of the anti test people, I think, are wrong. And where the testing folks are right. You do need a common yardstick. You do need some way to judge an A at this school or this teacher versus an A at this school or this teacher. But there are lots of common yardsticks. Again, you could use blood type. You could use height. Anything is a common yardstick. What you have to say is, fine, it's common. But it is useful? And there are lots of tests that are more useful than the SAT that are also common. Like?

It's not an IQ test because it doesn't measure IQ. It is used that way. And it was developed from the army IQ test. But even the College Board will refuse to say that this is an intelligence test. And I'd love to see them say it. I'd love to see them say anything because then you can attack it. But there's this kind of mushy response that when you work your way through it, there's sort of nothing left. Well, it has a slight predictive validity to freshman year grades in college. We spend a 100 million dollars a year for that? You know, your grades in high school predict college grades better than this and we didn't have to spend anything. They say the SAT provides a common yardstick for comparing grades at different schools.

The SAT is a scam. It has been around for 50 years. It has never measured anything. And it continues to measure nothing. And the whole game is that everybody who does well on it, is so delighted by their good fortune that they don't want to attack it. And they are the people in charge. Because of course, the way you get to be in charge is by having high test scores. So it's this terrific kind of rolling scam that every so often, somebody sort of looks and says--well, you know, does it measure intelligence? No. Does it predict college grades? No. Does it tell you how much you learned in high school? No. Does it predict life happiness or life success in any measure? No. It's measuring nothing. It is a test of very basic math and very basic reading skill. Nothing that a high school kid should be taking. Is it an IQ test?