John Katzman Quotes

Women are just much better at getting degrees than men. It seems that school at every level plays to the natural strengths of women more than it does to men.

Well, I don't think that the SAT is a scam.

I was studying for the SAT's and learning lines.

Higher SAT scores mean better college matriculation rates. So it's no wonder that private schools in ultra-competitive environments would grease the qualifying process as much as possible.

In my business - SAT tutoring - you get used to sighs. A client's mother frets over the sheer amount of work her daughter has to do to get her score up, until she reaches the resigned moment when she will sigh and observe that no one thought you could prepare for the SAT back when she took it - it was 'untutorable.'

There are a lot of women screenwriters, but they are obviously outnumbered by men. And it still is a very much male-dominated industry.

It's absurd: half the movie audience are women, but Hollywood bosses are still aiming for men who are 20.

It feels like it's the end of the world if you don't do well on your SATs.

I don't think anyone will deny that girls are academically superior as a group.

I don't think anyone thinks that the SAT score is a measure of your innate intelligence. It is not. That is a fallacious concept, and we at Kaplan, and others who are in a position, should be out there making sure people know this is nothing, this score does not have anything to do with your innate intelligence.

Yes, the upper reaches of society are still dominated by men.

If there's going to be an SAT, it's probably practical to invest in a book or perhaps in a course, but I'm sorry to say, I went to some classes that my kids took and it was clear in school that what they were doing was just SAT training.

I am particularly surprised that certain outlets look at pass rates irrespective of student population. As if inner city high school kids are to fare as well as college students.

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn't be here. I guarantee you that.

ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the companies, but really, economically, they have no incentive to change things very much because they're getting the business.

The problem is that for women, the average time is just over 14 minutes... men are left with about 12 minutes during which time they need to think of something to do!

The SAT plays an important role in helping admissions officers around the country sort out students, well-deserving students from 20,000 high schools that have different curriculums, different grading standards, and different ability to help students get ready for college.

You will never see as many great women investors or traders as men. Period. End of story.

I'd never taken an SAT prep course. They were for weaker students.

When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did.

You still remember your SAT scores. And everybody else does too. Everybody's forgotten everything about themselves, everything else about high school. They remember their SAT scores.

Yeah, I went to ACT for a while. It was great.

When I was a physics major in the late 1970s, my very few fellow female students and I had high hopes that women would soon stand equal with men in science. But progress has proved slower than many of us imagined.

I was planning that whole athletic slide into Stanford rather than actually getting a 1450 on my SATs.

The SAT is not particularly relevant to my life.