re: My daughter has been asked to take the ACTs/SATs (slight brag)

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Isn't this just preparing the child for real life? I was scoring in 98th and 99th percentile on all of my standardized tests until I took the ACT in 7th grade.

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My wife's niece took the ACT in the 8th grade, made a high score, made As throughout high school without much effort, got scholarships, then the real world hit her like a 2x4. She barely made it through her first year at college, she had never needed to study before and didn't know how, she had relied more on memorizing things than understanding them, and she didn't understand that there would be courses that required many hours of just grinding out the work even if was not a intellectual challenge something she had never had to do. She went from thinking she was on the fast track to medical school to a 2.5 gpa education major in two semesters.