Today, in the United States, standardized tests are administered annually by states to K-12 students in public schools. Different states place different weight on their standardized test scores, with some states deferring their funding based on scores and annual improvement, while other states allow schools to simply rate their students' performance relative to others state schools. However, these tests are only standardized within a single state. One of the few standardized tests nationwide is the SAT, the Scholastic Aptitude Test, administered by College Board and required by “more than 800 colleges and universities nationwide” (Comras, 1984). This test will be the standardized test that this article will focus on. Although standardized tests are standardized and allow one student to be compared to another, the meaning of the score is not equivalent to an intelligence test. Therefore, although standardized tests should be applied in the education system, they should be more representative of the material learned in school and carry less weight than they currently have in the college admissions process. 'university. Many psychological theories have been developed to determine how to measure intelligence. Volume 63 of the Annual Review of Psychology details some studies citing popular theories from the 1970s to 2000 (Deary, 2012), including the measurement of “sensory discrimination and reaction time” (Deary, 2012). After 2000, however, “interest focused, at a psychometric and broader experimental level, on processing speed and working memory as potential explanatory variables of intelligence” (Deary, 2012). To measure intelligence, scientists focus...... middle of article ......F PSYCHOLOGY, 63, 453-482.Duckworth, AL, Quinn, PD, Lynam, DR, Loeber, R. and Stouthamer -Loeber, M. (2011). Role of test motivation in intelligence tests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108(19), 7716-7720.Intelligence. (nd). http://www.apa.org. Retrieved April 30, 2014 from http://www.apa.org/topics/intelligence/Richards, T. (2001). Site of the week: Testing intelligence. BMJ: British Medical Journal, 323(7308), 348. Strauss, V. (April 22, 2014). What does the SAT measure? Aptitude? Realization? Nothing?. Washington Post. Retrieved April 30, 2014 from http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/04/22/what-does-the-sat-measure-aptitude-achievement-anything/What Does the SAT really measure?. (nd). PBS. Retrieved April 30, 2014 from http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/sats/test/what.html