14-year-old Milo Beckman figured out a hypothesis about SAT scoring after becoming frustrated when his SAT score rose the second time he took the test. He formulated that students who wrote longer SAT essays scored higher. And then he tested that theory. And he was right. Read more after the jump…

Beckman asked his fellow students at New York City’s Stuyvesant High School to count how many lines they had written on their essays and to provide their scores. The results were that out of 115 samples, the students who wrote longer essays almost always scored higher. MIT professor, Les Perelman, took Beckman’s research and confirmed it. Guess we’ll see if Beckman’s findings have on student testing is right as students prepare to take the SATS this fall.