[zerr]

The trick is to prepare specifically for SATs.

One would say the tests (and job interviews) should have been designed with the original intent of testing candidates AS IS, i.e. preparing specifically for such tests should have been considered as cheating... But at some point it turned into prep gymnastics, and measuring how desperate the candidates are.

[blitzar]

Once it is a forced ranking over all the candidates - it becomes a test of preparation and execution not of underlying skill.