Obviously, this is not a fair way to give away scholarship money. The SAT test has numerous amounts of flaws and factors that could be detrimental to one's life. SAT consists of seven timed sections. All the questions are multiple choice, except fifteen math questions. Another problem is that test questions are independent from high school curriculum.
Students have to spend extra time preparing for the test.
The types of questions are different from what students normally face in class. Exams in high school are focused on a specific topic in a given subject, while the SAT test general topics in math and English. Students in school are tested objectively on the course work while the SAT tests are subjectively on topics that they are suppose to be familiar with. According to the test, all eleventh graders are supposed to know high-level vocabulary and interpret reading passages be very subjective at times. People interpret reading material differently.