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I am begging everyone to start reading to their children. Siblings to read to each other. Teachers to assign full-length works: novels, poems, epics. It is devastating to watch 11th graders unable to keep up with SAT passages and become completely lost on vocab words they should have known in the 5th grade. At that point, there is no way to help the student. The most they can achieve without proper reading skills is a really average score because the SAT is not just about reading something, but also understanding it quickly and intuitively under the pressure of limited time. Intuitive reading strategies and vocab can only naturally be picked up through extensive reading, something students used to have until even just ten years ago. It's genuinely sad that despite the SAT significantly lowering its standards over the years, so many students still cannot score well on it. It's an indictment of our education system.