50% in some places?! bloody hell | by Adebayo Adeniran | Medium

…ead of four hours — to take the SAT, and the colleges would never know. Today, according to Slate, “in places like Greenwich, Conn., and certain zip codes of New York City and Los Angeles, the percentage of untimed test-taking is said to be close to 50 percent.” Taking a test under normal time limits in one of these neighborhoods is a sucker’s game — you’ve voluntarily handicapped yourself.

They Had It Coming

The Atlantic

Adebayo Adeniran

1 min readApr 5, 2019

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50% in some places?! bloody hell

Adebayo Adeniran

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