SAT & ACT- how did you score?

[Cluricaun]

31 ACT
1410 SAT

I took the ACT in 1994 and the SAT in 1993.

[ShibbOleth]

*Originally posted by ace22 *
**Don’t exactly remember, but I think it was 1430. No ACT.

And I must say, the GRE was way better than the SAT **

Wow, you’re my doppelganger. I could have exactly written the above post, word for word. My verbal was better than my math on the SAT, vice versa on the GRE (after my Engineering degree). And perfect on that test of written English component of the SAT (do they still have that?)

[SRVick]

Written English test? There’s the writing SAT II, is that what you mean? (Grr, damn 790, got 800s in math and U.S. History…)

[Dinsdale]

ACT 31 - 1st and only time. 1978.
Man, you guys are some test-takers. I know very few folk IRL who did better than 31.

My 13 year old son just got (I think) a 21 or 23 cum. Which wasn’t bad seeing as how he hadn’t even had much of the math yet. Think his highest was a 26 in English/reading/whatever.

My HS daughter has a good friend who got a perfect score on the SAT. What a freak!

[Severian]

I took the ACT once, in 1993, and scored a 32.

I never took the SAT.

[ASD]

1540 in 1992. 780 verbal, 760 math. Total fluke though, I got mid 1300’s on the PSAT and the first time I took the SAT. Can’t complain though as it let to a full-ride at the state unversity.

Didn’t take the ACT.

GRE’s I for a 2280. I forget the breakdown. Good enough to get me a fellowship for grad school though.

[ShibbOleth]

*Originally posted by SRVick *
**Written English test? There’s the writing SAT II, is that what you mean? (Grr, damn 790, got 800s in math and U.S. History…) **

Did a little research, it was called the Test of Standard Written English (TSWE) and seems to have been administered with the SAT pre-1995:

The effectiveness of the Test of Standard Written English (TSWE) as an aid in placing students in introductory English courses was studied by relating test scores to course outcomes for students entering the University of Houston during a five-year period. For students placed in the regular introductory English composition course, TSWE scores were effective in predicting end-of-course grades, essay scores, and test scores. Students with scores below 40 on the TSWE were estimated to have less than 58 chances in 100 of obtaining grades of C or higher in the regular course. For students who were placed in and completed the remedial course, large gains were found from pre-course TSWE scores to post-course TSWE scores.

[Vixenation]

So far, the average SAT score is 1334 (excluding mine). :dubious:

I got a 750 on the verbal section but considerably less on the math area (it has never been my strong suit). I was taking geometry my junior year because I was a year behind in math due to having to repeat Algebra 1, and didn’t know the answers to half of the questions because they were using algebra 2 or a part of geometry I hadn’t studied yet. All said, I got a 1280. I don’t doubt the intelligence or ability of Dopers for a second, I just find it somewhat hard to believe that so many could have gotten great scores (much like the way almost everyone here seemed to have an IQ of 135 or above). I believe the highest SAT score at my school was a 1360, with the average being about 1010. My good friend got an 860.

[brianjedi]

ACT: 29 first time, 30 second.

Only took it twice, and the second time was more of a “please do this for us” thing from my parents.

[fiddlesticks]

In 1991:
SAT 1200 (650 verbal 550 math)
ACT 29

The 29 was impressive enough to get me into University of Wisconsin-Madison even with a late application, thus saving me from really losing the game of “college admission chicken” that I was playing with my parents and having to go to some god-forsaken UW outpost school for a year.

I’m a lot prouder of the 5 I got on the AP English exam.

[porcupine]

I got a 31 on my ACT in 1982, which was the highest of anyone I talked to in my class. I didn’t take the SAT.

[TheOnlySaneOne]

Haven’t taken either one of them yet, but I took the PSAT and the Plan test (Pre-ACT type thing).

I don’t have the scores with me, but I think I got around a 120 on the PSAT, with a 730 on the Writing (SAT II) section, and about a 25-28 on the Plan.

[Max_Torque]

ACT: 32
SAT: 1400

Strangely, the results I got on the different sections of the two tests were opposites. On the ACT, my highest score was in the reading comprehension section (34) and lowest was in math (31). On the SAT, I got a 640 on the verbal section and a 760 in math. Go figure.

[Angel_of_the_Lord]

ACT: 34
SAT: 1530

That was my second take of the ACT (I took it as a sophomore and I got a 31–but that was just for practice), and my only take of the SAT, unless you include the time I took it in 6th grade and got about 900.

[NinjaChick]

ACT, first time 'round: 30

SAT, first time: 1280. I’m planning on retaking them both next fall. One of my friends also took both, got a 1590 on the SAT and a 35 on the ACT.

[ratatoskK]

SAT 1490 (in 1972, before they started grading on a curve!)

[bump]

SAT: 1290 (1990) My school re-valued the scores of enrolled students when they changed the grading(~1994 or so), and my revalued score was 1370.

Didn’t take the ACT.

GMAT: 690 (2002)

[irishgirl]

I took the SAT when I was 14 to get into a CTY summer programme.
1390
(800 verbal though)

[BottledBlondJeanie]

ACT: 33

I didn’t take the SAT as that was high enough to get you a full ride scholarship to any state school in my state and I knew I was going to law school.

[JRDelirious]

SAT: V700, M640 Year, 1978. Not in my first language.

Took a GRE in 1983 and have forgot what I got. Something in the 600s each. Would have to take it again to go to Grad School now anyway (and now it’s the computerized test. Drat. They have taken my #2 pencil away and my fingers are not yet cold or dead…)