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exactly. I have a kid in 4th grade . He got bad grades all year in his internal assessments. All the teacher would do is circle out the mistakes for silly mistakes. My kid scored a 96 percentile , toping all the 4th grader in his school My kid knows how to solve and understand the concepts just lack in describing it. I completely favor standardize test as there was no person involved to judge (who can also be biased).

I'm against building an entire education system around having children excel at standardized tests. Which is basically what will happen if it's the sole determinant of ability for universities.

But it's more fair and you are in control of your own fate: you can always study harder, but you can't improve the degree to which a random stranger likes you.

Because average performance in standardized testing (SAT, ACT, and so on) is highly variable between racial/ethnic groups.

People with all different kinds of motivations and agendas have various explanations for why that is, but ignoring all that the fact of the matter is that a strict "meritocracy" of that sort ends up with certain groups overrepresented and others underrepresented.

I'm confused, isn't that what SAT and ACT are?