SAT/ACT tests

A few weeks ago I got my results for both the SAT and ACT tests I took at the end of my highschool junior year. It was quite an ordeal taking them, they were days apart and very close to my school's exams. I've been asking my friends about their scores and experiences and i'm curious about y'all as well.

1. For me and everyone else I know, we got a higher verbal than math score on the SAT. Even math nerds got a slightly higher math score...does anyone remember how their verbal-math scores compared?

2. I got a pretty good ACT score of 26...and it seems the ACT is more of a test of logic, and more important to engineers, tech careers, etc. Maybe it's just me.

3. How the hell can you prepare for these tests!?! I saw some people freak out and take classes and buy tons of books, while others, like me, simply reviewed some tricks the tests use.

4. Does anyone know what other countries (besides the US) use for standardized tests?

Also, if you wanna make me and others feel stupid feel free to share your scores if you remember them, I know not everyone here is 18 but if you can remember your broad SAT score like 14XX i'm kind of curious, my best friend got a 1530 if anyone can beat that.

A pessimist knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

I was saying the verbal part was really easy compared to the math...but it sounds like it was a breeze for you. A lot of the math questions were trickay IMO. I would assume the last ones would be the worst but my wild guessing on the hardest math ones were on target, and then I missed some of the embarassingly easy ones at the beginning of the section.

A pessimist knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Hehehe, so true about the vocab, I forgot like every word I studied.

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Heheh, jobs these days are indeed becoming harder. And what is that crap about tests which don't represent you being needed to get you in College or better jobs!

Shame really. What happened to actual competence? Next you'll hear them wanting IQ tests standardized to see if a company will hire you.

"Minimum IQ required = 150 To Work Here"

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yeah...i dont really care about those tests because im going to a community college(COD is second in the nation, wahoo!) but i got a 27 on the ACT without trying at all. the school payed for them so there was no reason not to take it.

on the illinois state standard test i got a perfect in nearly every category...again without trying. tests are really easy...its homework thats hard!

I've got a book of matches,
I've got a can of kerosene,
I've got some bright ideas involving you and me.

Do you mean rigged for minorities? Because a lot of asian kids are insanely smart...

A pessimist knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

I don't think they're "rigged", but they are definitely inefficient in many ways and there's some controversy on the accuracy they show of a person's intelligence.

I got a very average SAT 1150 and a 26 on the ACT. I have a 3.6 GPA so I though i'd do better...my number one college choice is Purdue, which is barely in the top 10 engineering universities in the US, and the avg SAT and ACT score of Purdue freshmen are exactly my scores so I feel good about that.

Yeah the only 2 people I know who got 1600's are Asian.

A pessimist knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

yeah asians aren't smart because they're asian...i know plenty of asian deadbeats that may or may not move out of their parents house. the only reason they'd be smart is because their parents impose a greater priority to scholary. "you do well or you get the belt" mentality.

american parents dont generally do that because its the notion of americans that school is for education and not for social status and competition. though some competition is good because it motivate students to do well, not me though, i never gave a crap about what anyone else did. school always got in the way of my education.

i ended high school with a 3.7(on a 5.0) but with a 27 on the ACT, a 5.0 on the macroeconomics ap test(college credit yahoo) and a $6,000 scholarship at the university i applied to. but COD still seems the better choice for now.

but back to my point, standard tests are not by any means a good measure of intelligence. my sister is the greatest student i know of, she ended with a 5.1 on a 5.0 and only had 22 on th ACT. First, the standard tests make most student extremely nervous, wich makes them do poorly(remember i dont care, so not a problem for me ). and secondly, the standard tests require a certain kind of logic reasoning that is difficult for a lot of people, i dont know exactly what it is, but i seem to be good at it. but it by no means proves that im smart or not, nor does it prove that someone who can't do it is stupid.

i think college should be done on an interview basis, like a job. that way, you know if the person is smart or not, and you know if they're the kind of person you want roaming your campus.

BTW: i kicked asian and indian ass in macroeconomics. they demanded to know who was my tutor! they said there is no way that i could be 2nd in the class without studying at all. aparatnly there is. LONG LIVE GREENSPAN!

EDIT: one more thing. being book smart doesn't mean you're necisarily smart at all. the head of our class was expelled for stealing a calc AP semsester final(as well as other malicious acts, like changing grades at what not). this kid was intelligent, but he was a goddamn idiot.

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Well, Chinese are quite known to have a lot of intelligence, but you're right, I almost repeated what Cooltek said really, shoulda given it some thought first.

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Those tests only test your test taking ability.

I for one don't want to memorize the dictionary. Math comes naturally to me so that is easy. I also don't really care if I get a perfect score or not.

So in the end on the tests I needed I got very good scores but only studied for maybe 3 hours just to get the format down. I had friends who studied for months and months to get scores that were either the same as mine or in one particular case nearly perfect which was pretty cool. I get bored way too easily to do that.

<i><font color=blue>Edited by Scamtron on 10/11/01 09:58 PM