American exams are literally just multiple choice

>Oxford and Cambridge are on the level of flyover public universities here
Now you're just being silly.

Cope. Oxbridge is seen as the pinnacle of education in the entire world.

Education is big business in the US. There's Texas Instruments who forces literally everyone to take some sort of statistics class and they're required to buy a 89$ calculator that they only use once in their life. Weirdly enough STEM majors don't have to take stats most of the time. There's the Scantron Corporation, Pearson Learning, and a lot of other companies that profit off of terrible learning methods.

Whatever helps you sleep at night.

What’s the difference between SAT and ACT?

I won’t sleep now because of your conjecture.

Can't say, I never took the ACT. From what I know the majority of people who exclusively take the ACT are those wanting to get into medical school (because there's a science portion on the exam). They also let you use a calculator throughout the entirety of the ACT which is weak. The SAT Math non-calculator portion is probably the best part of out of both exams just because it requires one to be clever at times.

However, people that use these tests as indicators of intelligence should really off themselves. It's almost comparable to measuring dick size.

The American grading system is so foreign to me and it seems like you guys have so many different systems - SATs, ACTs, GPAs (whatever that is), APs, etc.

Here, you sit GCSE exams (National 5s in Scotland) and then take two years to prepare for, usually, 3 A-level exams after (the first year in Scotland for 6 Highers and then 3 Advanced Highers which I also hear are harder than A-levels).
I’m struggling to wrap my head around how grades are awarded in the US. I was thinking of studying at a US university, but they require that you sit SAT tests so maybe my A-levels are useless.

SAT is run by College Board which is a "non-profit" that pays all their employees and executives millions of dollars for absolutely nothing. They also run the AP exams which are special classes you take in high school which gives you access to the AP exam which depending on your score will give you college credit pretty much anywhere in the country. Thanks to the AP exams high achieving students only have to be in college for three years instead of 4, since they took all their intro classes in high school already. Good scores on both the AP and SAT were pretty much musts back in the day because they showed you were the best of the best. The problem is they were pretty much the only game in town for decades so they got way too cocky and basically just re-used the same questions they've been using for decades which were made back in the day so the questions still reward brute memorization instead of critical thinking. They also charge for absolutely everything. Taking the test, sending your test scores to college, seeing what ares you need improvement in, etc. The ACT, seeing a gap in the market decided to come in. It's cheaper, they offer free support services, and even go as far as to recommend jobs for the test-takers that they think they'd be good at based off of how they answered the questions. Most importantly though it's a more modern exam so it actually focuses on problem solving instead of plugging and chugging. So for example, in a math problem, it's more about knowing how to actually solve it rather than just remembering the formula. As an aside, AP is also seeing stiff competition now that IB is in the US. Actually many poor inner-city schools will have IB programs because they never invested in advance classes before and now that they finally are IB is the better choice.

Trips checked.

GPA = Grade Point Average, somewhere between 0 and 4 with 4 being the best, but if you do well in certain advanced classes you can score higher.

It's worth asking whether your A-Levels are transferable.

False, black people have many in the USA

AP exams sound like the closest equivalent of A-levels. I don’t much about IBs.

Depends on exams. There are 3 main type of American exam
-Multiple choice (pick the right answer form a list)
-Short answer and fill in the blank (give the right answer)
-Essay (SHIT tier garbage)

Teachers have the easiest time grading multiple choice, in fact its so easy you fill out the answers on a scantron, teachers can feed the scantron into a machine and get a grade back 123 dont even have to look at your paper. Very easy and convenient too. So not gonna lie a lot of teachers just do multi choice on a scantron all day every day at least back when I was in school (2000s)

FACT: multiple choice are easier to pass but harder to ace though

Are American students good at reasoning and thinking independently?

No, we're exceptionally bad at it, they actively discourage it until year 10 and then they don't embrace it until year 13 if you even get that far

>Reasoning
>Thinking independently.
American students are very good at the second imho, if anything that needs to be stopped because the end product of true "independent thinking" is often not that good if we are being honest. Its often a shitshow if we are being honest.

The first is a mixed bag. I think everyone likes to consider themselves reasonable but at the end of the day we are all driven by emotions first.

Practically every exam here that isn’t mathematical involves you writing an essay. Why is it shit tier in America?

Essays have to follow a rigid formula. No matter how good the content/analysis is, if you don't follow the exact formula you'll be lucky to even pass at all.

But are English SAT tests really reduced to finding a common synonym of a peculiar word and such?

Americans wouldnt last two minutes sitting an english A-Level prove me wrong

The educational value and post-graduation employment statistics of American universities vary incredibly.

There are like 230 law schools, 30 of them are scams, 120 of them are garbage, 50 of them are meh, and then 30 of them are good. And within that 25 you have 1000000000% employability 500K starting Yale, and then you have the "you have like a 20% chance of making six figures starting" Boston College

These questions are from the College Board for the English portion of the SAT.

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Never had a single multiple choice exam in my academic career

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These americans have it so easy

>Exams? Never heard of them.
>Why yes, I'm an unschooler. How can you tell?

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not even for uni? the teachers have to manually check all the exams?