SAT scores

[B&R Innovation2 10+ year member]

See and that pisses me off...how does my highschool career refelct my college career?

 

[nosaj070 10+ year member]

i don't think its right, but the sats more or less reflect your reasoning ability, which is pretty important for most jobs, i dont think they won't hire you due to it, but it may help them decide.

 

[Gauntlet 5,000+ posts]

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gauntlet, you used to have the black star avatar, right?

Yeah...

And the SAT really doesn't evaluate your reasoning ability.....what does knowing what a bunch of big, useless words mean have anything to do with your intelligence?

 

[awalbert88 10+ year member]

what does knowing what a bunch of big, useless words mean have anything to do with your intelligence?

Becuase we all assume that anybody who uses a lot of big, useless words is really freakin' smart. Duh. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/nono.gif.eca61d170185779e0921b0faa9704973.gif

 

[nosaj070 10+ year member]

well most of the big words you are supposed to figure out by figuring out roots and stuff, and the math usually has a lot of reasoning on it.

 

[NitroDuck 10+ year member]

990...i feel like an idiot. I felt like i did good and was going to get at least a 1100.

SATs are dumb. It is possible for a complete moron to get a decent score guessing on every single question (i know its doubtfull but there is a chance) then someone who really tries and gets confused by multiple choice questions.

 

[Rmsanger 10+ year member]

I got an 1140 my junior year but got a 1260 when I retook it my senior year. It helps to take a class in school that teaches you how to take the test.

 

[jbl_marshall21 10+ year member]

well i'm only a soph so i haven't taken anything, but last year a really smart girl got a 35 on her ACT. Full ride anywhere she wanted.

 

[alove_85 10+ year member]

kind in my school got a 35 also. Free rides for him as well. Not sure but I think he's going somewhere in MA. Pretty good considering my school has like 450 ppl, grades 7-12

 

[tommyk90 5,000+ posts]

I got an 1140 my junior year but got a 1260 when I retook it my senior year. It helps to take a class in school that teaches you how to take the test.

I took a class for the ACT's. It was a couple of days, including one after a dance. You don't learn much when your hungover. Didn't really get anything out of it anyways.

 

[ngsm13 5,000+ posts]

SAT- 1440

730-math

710-verbal

ACT- 31 first time, 34 second time

NG

 

[Rmsanger 10+ year member]

The classes I meant for given by the high school and lasted the whole semester. I took a sat math prep course and a verbal one as well. The both were graded and counted towards credit. They helped bring my score up over 100pts which is a huge gain. I also got to take driver's ed which counted for a grade/credit and I passed my driver's test there so I didn't have to go down and wait in line.

 

[tommyk90 5,000+ posts]

The classes I meant for given by the high school and lasted the whole semester. I took a sat math prep course and a verbal one as well. The both were graded and counted towards credit. They helped bring my score up over 100pts which is a huge gain. I also got to take driver's ed which counted for a grade/credit and I passed my driver's test there so I didn't have to go down and wait in line.

Oh. D*mn, i wish my high school had classes like that. Eh, oh well. I did good enough to get into the schools i needed to. Whatever.

 

[Heresy 10+ year member]

I got a 1310 on my SAT that I only took once and then my ACT score was a 26 the first time and 27 the second time.

I know plenty of people who were in the 1400 and 1500 range who went to college and couldn't deal with it so they dropped out within the first year. One of my better friends recieved a 1460 or something and now she is working part time at Papa Johns; she uses half her money to pay off debts she has amassed over the last few years and the other half goes to buying weed. Out of the top 10 people in my graduating high school class, I know of 3 who have had mental breakdowns and are back living with their parents.

Test scores only take you so far in life...

 

[Jdg784 10+ year member]

740 verbal, 700 math, 31 on the act..took the sat thrice...1130 in 7th grade, 1250 in 10th, 1440 11th.