Surviving
Standardization
An insider's guide to admissions testing's century of over-promising and under-delivering.
For nearly a century, admission testing has presented the approximations of psychology as the precision of physics. Akil Bello is writing the book that exposes what tests actually measure, how the industry operates, and what a hundred years of deceptive precision has cost American students. It's an insider's guide to admissions testing's over-promising and under-delivering that provides everyone from parents to policymakers a better way forward.
Standardization
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Why he's the one to write it
Akil Bello is an admissions testing expert with no psychometric training. A nationally recognized college admissions policy voice with no advanced degree. He's taken and taught 5 versions of the SAT, 3 versions of the SHSAT, GMAT, GRE, and 2 versions of the LSAT. He's founded a test prep company, trained hundreds of instructors, and sat in meetings where test publishers discussed profit margins alongside psychometric validity.
He's also guided his own sons through the same system he's spent more than thirty years analyzing — which means the book is part research, part field notes from the inside.
