Dang guys, you all are smart! We don’t take the SAT here, but I’ve taken the ACT 4 times or so, and my last score was 29. I still have at least one more time to go, so I’m keeping my fingers crossed for that 30, so hopefully I can get some scholarships.
No ACT - I was always told it was considered easier than the SAT and the schools here in Cali don’t look at it as highly (but the teachers could have been full of poo so I don’t know)
SAT - 1370 My score raised 100 pts in English but dropped 10 in Math. No studying, no prep…no retake. Good enough to get me into UCLA (from which I’m graduating on June 13th Woohoo!) so I was happy
Sorry to rain on your parade, but I am pretty sure I did better on the math section of the SAT than the verbal. 
My GRE scores, since I’ve been putting them on grad school applications recently I can remember them:
Verbal: 640
Quantitative: 780
Analytical: 800
Out of 800 on each section. It struck me as pretty easy, aside from the verbal section. Egad.
I knew it wouldn’t be a knockout for me:
SAT 1985
Verbal: 720
Math: 650
Still the highest my school for wayward boys (no foolin’) ever had.
GRE 1992:
Verbal: 750
Math: 690
Analytical: 790
I could live with that. It sure made the grad advisors pay attention when my application sailed across their desks.
Well, maybe we’re each others mirror image, then. I don’t recall my exact GREs, just that they were high, maybe mid or higher 700s in each section. I don’t think that any of the three were 800s, though. I’d probably remember that, lo these many years later.
Vixenation, you’re dealing with two phenomena here:
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Serious Doper geekdom.
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Most of the people who post in this thread are going to have higher scores, or they might think twice about posting. Sort of like the IQ threads, who is going to post on a brainy message board that they have a low IQ. Low grades can be a bragging point (“I never applied myself in school”), but test scores are often taken as raw indicators. A more random distribution of Doper test scores would still skew high (most likely), but would be more in line with the general population.
Personally, I think they’re an indication of people who test well. I’ve known many people smarter than me with lower test scores because of test anxiety.
Here’s one source:
Fine by me. 
Absolutely. Even though my scores were damn good, I never felt I could compare to my friends who were in the same testing results bracket as me. I’m just really good at taking tests - an ability that netted me four gold medals at a local computer olympics, three of them on multiple choice tests whose subject matter I only had a vague idea about. Or maybe it was all rigged.
I took the SAT in 1980 and got
690 Math
690 Verbal
I was almost prouder of getting the same score for both parts than I was of the overall score!
PSAT scores were 700M, 720V. I took the Biology Acheivement exam at some point and got a 730.
Never took the ACT.
I took the GRE (not the GMAT, as I mis-posted in another recent thread) in about 1988. I don’t remember my scores, but I do remember the percentiles for each section
94% Math
94% Analytical
99% Verbal
Not bad for a science geek.
Ok well I will be the first to post a BAD SAT score, it was a ummmmm…ok this is sad…ummmm…OK it was a 1060:( but that is ok because i got into a decent college anyway, and I love it 
Hell, I seem to recall the average the year I took it was something like 840.
Nothing to be ashamed of there.
ACT: 28 1st time, 33 2nd
SAT: 1270 1st time, 1270 2nd time, 1340 3rd time
Both taken in 2002
My boyfriend beat me on both tests. He scored a 34 and a 1460. When our guidance counselor handed him his ACT score, she prefaced it by saying, “This is the highest score I have ever held in my hand.” That motivated me to get a 33 the second time.
ACT: 32 (Perfect in Science, 35 in Math, 29 and 28 on the misc junk)
SAT I: 1470, I think.
SAT II: 760 in Chem and Physics, “Testing Irregularity” in math. Those two scores that worked barely got me into the 80th percentile, and considering how much I wanted the head of whoever made the chem, I’d say either I was lucky and knew nothing or a lot of people were just plain lucky.
SAT: 1300, math: 620, verbal: 690
Not so great, but not awful, either. I wish I had studied or taken it again. Also, I wish I took the ACT, since I do pretty well in science. Maybe then I would have been offered scholarship money, but maybe not.
ACT: 26 first time (sophomore year), 32 second time(junior year).
SAT: No universities in our state really asked for these scores. They all seemed to base scholarships and such on ACT scores. Thus, that is all we were instructed to take!
SAT: 1440, way back in 1981. We had 23 national merit semifinalists in my high school class of 90-something students.
SAT 1360: 640 Math and 720 Verbal
ACT 32
took both in 1995
Lillyflower, fear not. I did far, far worse.
I didn’t break 1000 on the SAT.
I think I have the lowest so far…and I didn’t want to be shamed into not posting, so here goes: I took the SAT last month, and got an 1150. (I’m horrible in math, and had to get up early to take the damned thing; I blame these factors for my averageness. Oh, and this was also my first shot at it, and I’m a only Junior. [That’s right, I’m just pouring it on ]). I haven’t taken the ACT as of yet.
That’s incredibly high. Do you mind saying which school? Was it a private prep school?
Also, for some strange reason I seem to recall my PSAT scores as being something in the range of 200 or so. Not on the same scale as SATs. Has this also changed, or has the BSE finally gotten ahold of my brain?
From 1995;
SAT: 1430
ACT: 33
SAT II: Physics 800, Math (II?) 800, Writing, 780
LSAT, 1999;
165