Standardized Assessment Test.

One part Verbal, one part Math. Three hours long. Every high school student's nightmare.

Everything about it reeks of evil, from the questions (designed to trick you into selecting the wrong answer) to the grading procedure (machines reading pages full of pencil marks in bubbles with two-millimeter radii, like batter's boxes for neutrinoes). Even the name is perverse. It arrogantly proports to "assess" millions of students in a standard way, something that is on its face impossible.

You can learn the SAT. You'll do better on it each successive time you take it. Therefore, it must measure something other than raw brainpower or reasoning. A true test of one's mind would not report different results on different days of the week.

Wise men are in agreement that the SAT measures only how well you can do on the SAT.