Depends on the score you want:
The one I actually got, or the “recentered” one that accounts for the across the board inflation they did in 1995. (so those of you counting the “old” scores against people who got the same scores in the last 8 years actually did better than them, you know).
Real scores:
Verbal 610
Math 420
total: 1030
Recentered scores:
Verbal 670
Math 460
total: 1130
I bet you won’t meet too many people who did almost 200 points better on the verbal than the math! Perhaps the teachers (at least 2 admitted it to me or my parents) who thought I may have a learning disability shouldn’t have dismissed the idea as “oh, but she/you read so well, how could she/you have a LD?” :rolleyes: I suppose there’s no point in investigating that now that I’m through with college. " Poor at math" is as good a label as any…
Ya know, I’ll probably never get another chance to say this without sounding like a total ass (I guess I can live with being a half-ass), so…
1st try - 1310
2nd try - 1520
I think it was 780 V, 740 M, but I wouldn’t swear to it. I remember that verbal was higher, which frankly surprised me.
I would have taken it a 3rd time to go for the 1600, only I didn’t care. In retrospect, I probably should have. My grades barely put me in the top 10%. Getting a 1520 on the SAT only underlined the fact that I was a slacker. In which case, I might as well have a perfect score to show for it
800 in Achievement test for Chemistry, American History and Math Level 2.
I love the SATs.
I love taking tests.
My daughter just took the LSATs, so I bought the book to help her with the logic problems. They looked like fun. I’m so tempted to take them for the hell of it, but that would be wrong.
800 in Achievement test for Chemistry, American History and Math Level 2.
I love the SATs.
I love taking tests.
My daughter just took the LSATs, so I bought the book to help her with the logic problems. They looked like fun. I’m so tempted to take them for the hell of it, but that would be wrong.
Not sure exactly. I didn’t particularily care about the SATs - I was fully intending to go an english university anyway, and was just doing the SATs to keep my options open (read: Get my mother to stop nagging me about the possibility of an American university), so I don’t think I more than looked at a SATs paper before entering the exam and my scores didn’t make a big impression on my mind.
SATs I think I got 700 maths, 730 verbal. Although I’m certain I got higher in the verbal, I will never for as long as I live figure out why. I have poor language skills, and am probably in the top 100-epsilon th percentile for maths in my age group (if uni exams mean anything anyway, which I’m not entirely convinced they do).
SAT IIs, I forget exactly. I’m actually not even sure what I took. Maths, physics and creative writing I think. The first being 800, the second either being high 700s or 800, I forget which. The creative writing was much lower - Either high 500 or low 600. I maintain that had the exam actually been about creative writing as opposed to lots of questions about grammar followed by a short essay on a subject with no creativity involved at all (I forget what it was, but it was a really dull subject) I would probably have done scored on that one. Not that I’m bitter or anything.
I did the SAT when I was 14, it was an entry requirement for the summer scheme I wanted to attend.
I got 800 verbal, 590 math (I’m not great with numbers).
I got into my university by luck (once you got the required points they drew the lucky few out of a hat or something) it didn’t really count for anything, although the high verbal score did entitle me to a scholarship for money off that sumer scheme, so I was quite pleased.
Perfect SAT II scores don’t seem to be a huge deal, but my ACT score got me an editorial in the local paper, and a short story on the local news channel.
I don’t remember how my SAT and ACT scores broke down, except that they were really weighted toward the verbal side of things. 1330 on the SAT, 30 on the ACT. I got an 800 on the writing SAT II, and I think a 780 on the literature SAT II. (FTR, I took all of these in 1996)
Can’t remember my GRE general scores offhand, except that I got a verbal score of 710, and on the Literature in English subject exam I managed a 740, which was in the 99th percentile. (And in a sense I was rather lucky in that regard, as my field is one that’s highly canonical and as such heavily represented on the test – colleagues of mine who didn’t do as much work with dead British guys didn’t generally score as highly.)
All in all though I’m rather glad my standardized test-taking days are over…
Now a question: Someone made a reference to three sections of the PSAT, the last of which was reading comprehension. I took the PSATs in '95 and '96 and honestly don’t remember a reading comprehension section. Is it new, or should I be concerned about the state of my long-term memory?
I managed a 1570 in the last year before re-centering: that was a 790V and a 780M. All of my math-geek friends got 800s on the math; all of my poetry-geek friends got 800s on the verbal, but I’m pretty sure I had the highest combined score in my class of 70 kids – and this in a school where the class average is routinely over 1300.
You know what my 1570 got me? The same question in every college interview: “Your board scores are extremely high, and your writing sample is excellent. Do you think your grades reflect that perhaps you haven’t been applying yourself?”
I had low-nineties grades that I worked my ass off to earn. But a 1570 is a 98% – they assume it’s a fluke that you didn’t get a perfect score. So anything except highest honors and a valedictorian sticker on your application, and a high board score actually hurts you in the college application.
Strong (but not perfect) academically, and excellent at taking standardized tests? Throw a few questions, daydream a little, and aim for a 1450. Break 1500 and you get nothing but hassle.
ACT:
30 science (yeah, I’m embarrassed that this was my lowest score), 31 math, 36 English, 36 reading; 33.freaking25 total.
In response to look! ninjas, there is reading comprehension on the PSAT, but it’s incorporated into the general verbal section, IIRC. I don’t think it’s a separate section. However, I think the last section is actually “writing skills,” which contains questions about correct grammar and sentence structure and the like.
I should remember better, since I took the test only a year and a half ago, but I don’t, so…sorry if anything I said is in error.
We tied! I got 172 (99th percentile) on the LSAT last June. Even with my miserable slacker’s GPA from college, the LSAT score was enough to get me a full scholarship to law school, starting this fall.
And when I graduate I’ll start chasing ambulances. I can’t wait to do those TV commercials: “Hi, I’m Jackelope the Wonder-Attorney; I’ll help you get the money the insurance companies WON’T TELL YOU ABOUT!!!”
HomerIU, by no means, am I attempting to single you out - - actually - - you sound like a very intelligent and well-adjusted (e.g. not doing “bad things to Iraqi prisoners”) type of person.
After skimming through the posts on this thread - - I think we have too many former “nerds” (or current liars) showing their “stuff” on this thread. That said, I know (too) many college(/over) educated “idiots” (please think of your currnet/recent bosses - - if you were able to obtain an interesting/challenging career afrer blowing away the standardized tests a few years ago!) I also scored quite well on my SATs (never took ACTs), and my freshman year of college was awfully easy. However, tests are just that - - - - TESTS! One of my current romantic interests only has a GED, obtained on the inside, and she has more STREET SMARTS (read: business) and business sense than the sum of any other two people I know (and I range and forage far and wide). Perhaps I should move this to “The Pit;” although, I think this thread needs a little livening up in the capitalist (and rightly so–) society we have here in North America . . . .
----Former “Nerd” - - - - realized there is a “real” world to make my way in!!
Signed–
(Why become a mail man) Cliff Claven
1330 on the SAT, 30 on the ACT. I got an 800 on the writing SAT II, and I think a 780 on the literature SAT II. (FTR, I took all of these in 1996)
(And in a sense I was rather lucky in that regard, as my field is one that’s highly canonical and as such heavily represented on the test – colleagues of mine who didn’t do as much work with dead British guys didn’t generally score as highly.)