I got the same score as you only 800 verbal and 650 math.
630 verbal, 630 math.
760 verbal, 730 math, no ACT
one of the few tests I did better on verbal than on math…
Thanks, Dyno.
I know it doesn’t matter, and that a lot of people remember it. I read this article in Times (I think) that talked about famous people’s scores. So I guess it’s a universal thing.
Anyway, IMO, what really matters is if you’ve got a cute SAT instructor. I do. 
Alright, I’ll shut up now.
790 Verbal (only missed 2 or 3 questions… why oh why could it not be an 800?), 680 Math, (1470 composite)
720 verbal, 570 math.
29 ACT, 760 Verbal, 640 Math, but that was because I stupidly drank an entire diet Coke between two sections and had to pee really really bad. I was distracted, and too cheap to take the test again. Not like it matters since the SAT isn’t really a valid predictor of college performance. On another note, a few eeks ago I walked in off the street (practically) and took a free practice LSAT I’d just heard about. I got a 148. I don’t know whether to be happy or gravely disappointed in myself.
Hmmm, 1330 total on SAT, don’t remember how it broke out, but verbal was higher. You mean they curve it now? I didn’t know that. Obviously, this was long ago and far away (1983-84).
Don’t remember PSAT or ACT scores, but on all of my tests I scored in the 98 or 99th percentile. Did well enough in the PSAT that, not only did I have the highest score in my school’s history, but it got me in the National Merit thingy. (D’oh, now I sound like I’m bragging!)
I’ve always done better on verbals, though. I ove the language, love to hear it used correctly, and LOVE literature.
800 verbal, 720 math. Don’t remember my ACT, but it was 99th percentile. I’ve always tested well. That’s why I’m going to be paying about $3000 for four years of college.
I have a little story to go with my sad, sad tale.
After 12 years of always scoring in the 99th percentile, I took my SAT. I took it only to compete for the National Merit Scholarship. (The schools I was looking at consider the ACT more important.) I did well on the PSAT, and was predicted to get like 1500+ on the SAT. I had gotten a 33 on the ACT, which, while somewhat lower than I had hoped, was good enough, I thought. I took that test cold: woke up, ate a Pop-Tart and walked in. All on the day before a big 3 week German exchange. So I figured the SAT would be a piece of cake. Well, I don’t know what went wrong, but I ended up with a 1310. Worst of all, it disqualified me from the Merit scholarship, and the school I’m going to automatically gives like an 80% tuition scholarship to Merit Finalists. So now I’ve got to apply for all these other scholarships to make up the difference…it makes me so mad!! Just further evidence that standardised tests mean little. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go punch the wall.
SATs in seventh grade (before curving, or “recentering”, the little R next to your scores if you took them after 1995): 630 v, 640 m
PSATs: 800 v, 790 m
SATs in tenth grade: 800 v, 710 m (and I felt horribly stuck up for feeling bad about the “low” math grade").
Kat: How did you get a score that wasn’t a multiple of ten? Did they used to give scores in multiples of five?
780 math
750 verbal
But I’ve always tested well, so there probably aren’t any valid conclusions that can be drawn from this. Heck, I guess that you’d get mostly very high scores by asking this question on these boards - partly because the average board member is very intelligent, but also partly because they (and people who have horror stories) are the only ones likely to share.
Unless some joker posts some analysis like this and someone with a “merely” average or above average score reads it as a challenge. 
Oh, and the main effect I’ve seen these scores have (aside from the obvious effect on college admissions) is that as far as I’ve seen, when people want to see how “intelligent” you are, they asked about you IQ in grade/high school. In college they seem to ask about SATs.
GilaB, they must’ve. Anyone else got a score ending in 5?
I noticed that in Time magazine recently, in an article in which they asked a bunch of political figures and celebrities their SAT scores, many had scores that weren’t multiples of ten. Some weren’t even multiples of five. The only one that I remember offhand is our esteemed president, who had a 1236, implying that either he’s averaging at least five exams or that scores were given out not in multiples of five or ten. (I noticed it because this meant that in seventh grade, I’d outscored him (this is a scary thought, folks, because I sure ain’t smart enough to run the country, although the debate over whether the SATs measure intelligence is a whole different thing).)
They called it the “College Entrance Exam” and wouldn’t tell you the your score. You told them what colleges to send scores to and that it.
They called it the “College Entrance Exam” and wouldn’t tell you your score. You told them what colleges to send scores to and that was it.
I got a 1280, but I don’t remember the breakdown. However, I wouldn’t bother paying for a prep course…they have practice tests in most public libraries, most guidance counselors offices, and I think online. What helps is if you know basic alegra and geometry, and have a good grasp of basic latin roots (I took Latin and it was one of the best preps that I had–I know that my verbal was so nuch higher than my math…I still count on my fingers). Also remember that it isn’t necessarily just your SAT or ACT scores getting you into college, but the application essays, the recommendations and the transcripts. If a college refuses to look at those things based on a standardized test score, you probably don’t want to spend 4+ years there.
Those practice tests are just about the best thing you can do to get ready. Take 'em just like you would take the real thing - each time you’ll get more efficient at answering questions, so when you are taking the real test you’ll have more time to puzzle over the answers you aren’t sure about. And it costs nothing to very little to get copies of the practice tests.
I didn’t take the SAT, I took the ACT - I think my score was something like 28 or 29, but I can’t remember now.
I sure do remember the worst score I ever got, though - which was on the GRE - both my verbal and analytical scores were good - but the math score was a very dismal 460. I’m just lucky I had the other two scores to pull that stinker up! But, as betenoir said:
I took the GRE about a year after I left college and I hadn’t had any math to speak of since junior year of high school. If you don’t use it, you do lose it!
1360 – 730 verbal, 630 math. That was, incidentally, the best I’d ever done on the math, and the worst I’d ever done on the verbal. That was a pretty mediocre score for my high school, but I couldn’t be bothered to retest. They don’t (or didn’t at the time, anyway) give the ACT in New York State.
You wanna talk about something painful - I took the SAT three times and each time it went down!!
SAT - 1260 (best)
ACT - 32
I just did quite a bit better on the ACT for some unknown reason…