The fellas and ladies in the movie had to cheat to score big on the SATs. Here in middle America, the ACTs have become a bigger deal, but in Hollywood I guess the SATs still matter more.
So brag, boast, and parade the fuck out of your scores on the common college entrance exams. Try to make yourself seem more important becaue of your scores, and make excuses for your failures. Feel free to bring in any other impressive numbers that make you look good and downplay those that are weaker. For instance, I scored 167 on my LSATs, which means I’m a lawyer in a few months and you people who scored perfects on your SATs are still ignorant peons. See how it works?
SAT:
total - 1540
800 - math
740 - english/grammar
ACT:
total - 34
math - 36
english - 35
sci reasoning - 30
that other category - 32
I took it around '88/'89 and got a 1550 (V760/M790) and thought I was hot shit until I got roomed with someone who got a perfect score. It didn’t take long after that to realize that SAT scores didn’t give much in the way of bragging rights when a) almost everyone there scored a 1400 or higher, b) everyone’s daily coursework was at least ten times harder than anything that ever appeared on an SAT, and c) bragging about academic achievements wasn’t a good way to make friends in an environment where everyone was stressing over homework, term papers and exams.
PSAT: 201. At the time that was the highest score my school had ever seen. On the accompanying paperwork, I had indicated that I planned to work for a year or two to earn tuition before entering college (bad advice from my mother, who worried about money but knew nothing about the scholarship process). I still vividly recall being paged to my guidance counselor’s office and thinking I was in trouble (for what, I have no idea, because I was a mousy, squeaky-clean student). He told me I’d blown my score off the map, and I’d better change that form because I would need to enter college right away to be eligible for all the scholarships that would be coming my way if I did as well on the SAT. Unfortunately I wasn’t much into extracurriculars, so even though I did pretty well on the SAT, I got one NMS scholarship from my mother’s employer; it wasn’t comprehensive, but it paid most of my tuition for my first four years at a state university (I still had room, board, books, etc. to pay, but that four grand helped a lot).
Why is it so “low”: because I was doing this attachment at a law firm, and didn’t have time to prepare properly for it.
Should I retake? (The above score was obtained Dec 2003) I don’t expect a perfect 1600, but there is this chance (around 40%) of me getting a higher score.
SAT–1440 (750 V, 690 M)
This was way back in 1981, so I think I get to bump scores up a few points with the re-centering of the test that was done a few years ago
Achievement tests–
Chem-790
Eng-740
Math I 710
and a few others I’ve completely forgotten
LSAT–35 (this is the number I remember, but looking at other scores mentioned I think the entire scale for this test must have been changed since I took it. As I recall, this was high enough for any law school.)
GREs–
740 V
750 M
790 Analytical
That’s pretty much all I can remember about my various forays into standardized tests. I often wish that real jobs were as easy (and fun) as answering discrete questions and filling in those little bubbles with the number 2 pencils.
Well, I don’t really want to honor that movie. Man I hate its commercials but anway I got a 1450. And that was studyfree like everything I did up until sophmore year in college. Boy did that hit me like a ton of bricks.
770 verbal, 760 math, for a total of 1530. On the SAT IIs, I think I got 760 Bio, 800 Writing, and 720 MathII w/calc. The latter score I was amazed at, as I went to the test with a nasty case of the flu. I had been half tempted to just cancel the score without seeing it, but my mom wouldn’t let me. It wasn’t NEARLY as low as I thought it was gonna be, obviously.
I just took the GRE and got 640 verbal, 760 math. Which broke down percentile wise to something like 92%ile verbal, 85%ile math. Screwy test, that. I got a 6 on the analytical/writing section, which is as high as you can go, though. I’m not retaking it; can’t afford to, and I my scores are good enough.
Holy Crap, are you me? I got 1380 on the SAT in 1980 or so (690M, 690V). I got 212 on the PSAT, won a National Merit Scholarship from my Dad’s employer and went to a state school!
If I had it to do over again I would apply to some more highly regarded (and expensive) schools and gotten student loans to pay for it. Oh well.
I got a 730 on the Biology Achievment test, and 5 on the Bio AP exam. I took the GRE in 1987 or so and while I forget my raw scores I was in the 94th percentile on the Math and Analytical portions and the 99th percentile on the Verbal portion.
I don’t really care so much, but the math score was honestly a fluke. I was always so much better in math than anything else. I kicked all the practice tests’ asses, and my PSAT math was perfect. I guarantee that if I had taken the SAT again, I’d have gotten an 800. It wasn’t worth the ego rub at the time, though. And ten years later, it doesn’t seem to matter so much.
32 on the ACT, I think. I know I maxed out math and reading comprehension.
1450 (760 M, 690 V), when I took it for the second and last time. I was 14. I wish now I’d gone back and tried to take it one last time my last year of high school (when I was 15) to try to get a perfect score or close to it, but I figured there was no point as I’d already been accepted at the college I wanted to attend.
On the GRE, I had 800 Q, 780 M, 690 V, for 2270 total. Then I went to the University of Toronto, which didn’t accept GRE results anyway.
I took the SATs 3 times, the last being in 1976. I got 670 in both areas, for 1340.
There was no such thing as ACT back then, or at least I never heard of it. And since I never wanted to go beyond my bachelor degree, I never took any other tests. I do wonder how I’d score today. But not enough to bother with it.
