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For the new SAT, put whatever score that would be translated to the old SAT.

Also, if you took an essay. Post your score. I believe it was out of 12.

I got an 1150, with a score of 10 on the ACT for the essay and a score of 8 on the SAT for the essay.

1410! Woohooo! :D

(780 math, 630 Verbal)

1460. 760 math, 700 verbal. The ACT is a much better test. 34 :)

I got a 10 on the essay (yes, it was out of 12). They are a little hard to please on the writing, brought down my score.

I'm only a freshman, so I haven't taken the test in high school yet, but when I do, I expect 2200-2400. I took it in seventh grade as part of the Duke Talent Identification Program and got a 1310 (680 Math, 630 Verbal).

I got a 10 on the essay (yes, it was out of 12). They are a little hard to please on the writing, brought down my score.

I got a 10 on the essay for the ACT, but they gave me an 8 on the essay for the SAT

I got pwned by the SAT. I just couldn't get it right.

But I got a 33 on my ACT, so it all good! :)

I got a 10 on the essay for the ACT, but they gave me an 8 on the essay for the SAT
When did they add an essay to the ACT?

When did they add an essay to the ACT?

I think this is the first year.

I took it last year, and I didn't have an essay.

1470 (770 Math, 700 Verbal)

ACT I don't quite remember, it was more than five years ago now...I think it was a 31 or a 32

710 math
800 verbal

I didnt take the ACT after I found out my SAT score.

I never took the SATs...and I got a degree from a UC anyway......AAAAAhahahahahaahhaha...I even got an advanced degree without the GREs....AHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.....suckers.....I will not be tested standardly!!!!!!


What do you mean how long did it take?



I don't want to talk about it.

What did they get me?
shutup

Sorry for my ignorance.

Do the SAT's involve any science or personal prefferences such as History or Politics, or does the basis on which uni you go to really depend on math and English skills even if you have no plan to study anything math related?

Well, I got a 7 in English and Science and an 8 in Maths.

But I took British sats...so there.

Well, I got a 7 in English and Science and an 8 in Maths.

But I took British sats...so there.

It's a bizarrely on topic hijack. **half-hearted applause**:p

I got a 7 in Science, 8 in Maths and EP in English. Not that sats in this country are worth a damn thing.

[more British scores :P)
I got a 7 in Science.

Thats it.

I broke my arm and went to hospital so I missed the other two so they just put me into the top groups for everything :D

I got a 7 in Science.

Thats it.

I broke my arm and went to hospital so I missed the other two so they just put me into the top groups for everything :D

Don't grin at us. You have leet in your name

**hates j00**

Uh, that's j00=you, not j00=jew

Only joking...but when?

Don't grin at us. You have leet in your name

**hates j00**

Uh, that's j00=you, not j00=jew

Only joking...but when?

It was in summer 2003 I... think... the memory here is jumbled.

5t0p h8n m3h m4n :P
"Stop hating me maaaaan", not that j00 wouldn't understand

I do my British SATs next summer (I'm up a year so I'll technically be a Year 8 and in a top school) and I'm projected to get 8s in science and maths and 7s in English - here's to hoping I do, because it's going to be humiliating to get lower :)

I wish I could remember. I had to take it in order to graduate, even as a foreign student - but that was more than 10 years ago and more important things have happened since then.

We don't have such tests here in Finland. I have no idea what they are. The scholar system in Finland is somewhat different to US or England. I don't know what my degree is in US terms...:confused:

We don't have such tests here in Finland. I have no idea what they are. The scholar system in Finland is somewhat different to US or England. I don't know what my degree is in US terms...:confused:

Well don't worry, neither would the Americans

:p @ USA

It was in summer 2003 I... think... the memory here is jumbled.

5t0p h8n m3h m4n :P
"Stop hating me maaaaan", not that j00 wouldn't understand

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I just took my PSATs but I havent gotten my scores back...I too the SATs in 8th grade (so this score has prly improved) tho and got 530 Verbal and 540 Math

I got an A on my core skills test that's the closest I had to an SAT.
3 days of constant exams and the only feedback I got was one letter. I was not happy. 10 years later and I stll don't know how I did on each individual question.

780 Math
720 Verbal

I made a 1410 on my SAT (it has been so long I don't remember the breakdown)


I made a 31 the first time I took my ACT, but I was high so I thought 'if I can get a 31 high, then I am going to retake it not-high and do better'

I didn't.


My not-high, well-rested, good-breakfast ACT score was 26:(

Meh. UK SATs were rubbish. All you Americans get a nice, high score of over 1000, all I get is a combined score of 23.

I'll go for the highest category. Allthough we don't have SAT's over here, i had to take an exam in order to do what i wanted to do. I think 39.5/40 translates to the highest category.

before they revamped the ACT (prob about 7 or 8 yrs ago) I got a 30. Never had to take the SAT since i went to an in-state college. Now, the GRE's....ugggh, that is another story.

SAT:

750 Math
800 Verbal

GRE:

700 Verbal
800 Quantitative
800 Analytical

In Soviet Russia, the SAT takes you!

800 Verbal
770 Math
1570 Combined
(800 Writing)
2370 Combined

SAT score: 2070
--Critical Reading: 730
--Math: 680
--Writing: 660

ACT composite score: 33

EDIT: I'm looking at the scores people claim, and I call bullshit.

SAT score: 2070
--Critical Reading: 730
--Math: 680
--Writing: 660

ACT composite score: 33

EDIT: I'm looking at the scores people claim, and I call bullshit.
Nahh. We here at NS are very smart.


Verbal - 800
Maths - 690
Writing - 690

Good enough for a junior.

EDIT: I'm looking at the scores people claim, and I call bullshit.
It seems vaguely surprising, but then given the personality that would lend itself to writing on a forum mostly concerned with politics with the occasional thread like this one, it isn't, really.

I'm not exactly sure how to give you verification.

F*ck knows what I got in them (British Sats). I got mostly A's in the exams that matter though.

I only took the ACT and got a composite of 24, due to my extremely low affinity toward any math-related study.

Old:
680 Math
760 Verbal

New:
690 Math
730 Verbal
600 Writing

Year 6 sats straight 5's

Year 9 sats english 6, science 7 (1 mark off an 8) and maths 8

Not like I care any more now that I'm in college doing A levels.

It seems vaguely surprising, but then given the personality that would lend itself to writing on a forum mostly concerned with politics with the occasional thread like this one, it isn't, really.

I'm not exactly sure how to give you verification.

Thats not totally true. I for one did just above average on my SATs and ACTs. However, I have all A's and B's, I take honors and AP classes, and I am on this forum discussing politics and world affairs. I dont think standerdized tests succeed in catagorizing us. I think they stand for shit and fail to capture the true uniqueness behind each person.

I don't know what I got in my (british) sats

but as in wales it works diferently to england as well just to make it confusing

anyway I get tested differently as I'm dyspraxic (so the things that are tested in standard testing make no sense to test as these things are the ones you are bad at due to being dyspraxic)

but i've done a IQ test (a proper one done by educational psycologists)

and I got a 99.98%

but they had some problems with me

I pointed out that some of their questions didnt' make sense (they really don't like it when you point out their tests are flawed) such as their question about faust, and also a question about the book of genisis (i'm a 2nd gen atheist who has never done RE (religious education) how the hell am I supposed to know that))

Thats not totally true. I for one did just above average on my SATs and ACTs. However, I have all A's and B's, I take honors and AP classes, and I am on this forum discussing politics and world affairs. I dont think standerdized tests succeed in catagorizing us. I think they stand for shit and fail to capture the true uniqueness behind each person.

So, you think that because you're bitter, right?

I don't know what I got in my (british) sats

but as in wales it works diferently to england as well just to make it confusing

anyway I get tested differently as I'm dyspraxic (so the things that are tested in standard testing make no sense to test as these things are the ones you are bad at due to being dyspraxic)

but i've done a IQ test (a proper one done by educational psycologists)

and I got a 99.98%

but they had some problems with me

I pointed out that some of their questions didnt' make sense (they really don't like it when you point out their tests are flawed) such as their question about faust, and also a question about the book of genisis (i'm a 2nd gen atheist who has never done RE (religious education) how the hell am I supposed to know that))

How does an IQ test give you a percentage as the result you tell people? Surely it should give you your IQ?

**calling bullshit**

I went the community college (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_college) and transfer route, and therefore never had to take any SATs. :cool:

I'm not convinced that these standardized tests (nor any kind of grade) actually mean anything. I am currently attending a university that is supposed to be top tier, in the top 50 of all public/private universities in the United States. I enjoy spending my afternoons sitting in the library lobby watching all these very intelligent academic high achievers fighting with the locked outside book drop door despite the sign right next to it in big bold letters that says "This book drop is closed and locked during business hours." Oh, and those people who are always walking through the emergency exit, thinking it's a normal exit, despite the BIG RED LETTERS THAT SAY "EMERGENCY EXIT ALARM WILL SOUND."



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I've concluded that society values big numbers more than it values actual intelligence. Edit: where's a copy of that "School For The Gifted" Far Side comic when you need one?

IQ test all have different ways of measuring IQ and giving the results as numbers.

some that I have done in the past ask you questions of increasing difficulty and find out when you fail (I like those as I don't fail) which tells them your IQ

others ask you a set number of questions and then use them to work out your IQ

now the way the work out your IQ is by testing lots of people (an average cross section of the population) and finding out where the average is (i.e. what point do the majority of people fail/how much do they score)

Therefore by giving you a percentile rather then an IQ I give you a way of comparing various reputable tests

and this I can prove as I have been tested properly twice in my life (full tests with everytype of IQ measured) now the first one I got 163 and the second I got 144, note how the scores are very different, however both I got percentile scores of 99.98% and 99.99% in them which allows us to compare the two results.

so sit on it and spin

I got a rock.

Therefore by giving you a percentile rather then an IQ I give you a way of comparing various reputable tests


No, you don't. It only allows comparison with the test you took.

SAT: 1130
ACT: 22

...four/five years ago, in seventh/sixth grade. Yeah. My PLAN test last year said I could get a perfect ACT. Not surprised. I'm about to take the ACT for a time that'll count, plus writing, on dec. 10th. I don't remember my score breakdowns, though, except that on the SAT one was 580 and the other was 550.

Oh, and on the IQ test thing, I agree with the fact that they vary widely. I took 5 different tests and got results from 160-something to 185, so I averaged them and got 179. Close enough. However, I will also agree that some people BS about scores. I know a kid who claims to have an IQ of 190 that can't for the life of him get anything higher than a C on a paper, can't do basic math, can't remember to OPEN doors before he walks through, and when asked, couldn't tell us what IQ stands for. Pretty sure he said it just so he'd sound smarter than the new kid (me).

So, you think that because you're bitter, right?

Bitter about what?

I went the community college (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_college) and transfer route, and therefore never had to take any SATs. :cool:

I'm not convinced that these standardized tests (nor any kind of grade) actually mean anything. I am currently attending a university that is supposed to be top tier, in the top 50 of all public/private universities in the United States. I enjoy spending my afternoons sitting in the library lobby watching all these very intelligent academic high achievers fighting with the locked outside book drop door despite the sign right next to it in big bold letters that says "This book drop is closed and locked during business hours." Oh, and those people who are always walking through the emergency exit, thinking it's a normal exit, despite the BIG RED LETTERS THAT SAY "EMERGENCY EXIT ALARM WILL SOUND."



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I've concluded that society values big numbers more than it values actual intelligence. Edit: where's a copy of that "School For The Gifted" Far Side comic when you need one?

LOL...Hes pushing when it says pull!!!!!!!!!

listen all IQ tests test much the same thing (especially the ones that actually mean something) so they tend to get much the same percentile break down while the scoring in IQ may be completly different as that is test spacific.

I got a 1390 when I took the SAT. I forget how it broke down between math and verbal skills, but I remember I did better in verbal.

i dont remember what i got on the SAT, but i dont think it was too good...:(

my ACT i got 21...

Many years ago, I got a 1460 on the SAT, in a remarkable 730/730 even split on math and verbal scores.

Afterwards, I actually had a classmate tell me that it was impossible to score exactly the same on the math and verbal sections of the SAT. He insisted that everyone had to be better at one or the other - there was no way to be equally skilled in both. Even when I showed him the printout with my scores on it, he still refused to believe it. And when I pointed out that people who scored the maximum 1600 obviously had to score 800 on both sections, he still refused to back off from his point. This was excellent training for arguing with people on the NationStates forum. :p

British SATs: Science 6, English 8, Maths EP. Still fucked up Maths at GCSE and AS Level though.

I got 1260 IIRC
530 math
730 verbal
I had to take it on my (13th B-day:mad:) to apply for a "gifted and talented" summer program...

Ketchup.

F*ck knows what I got in them (British Sats). I got mostly A's in the exams that matter though.We don't do any SATs in NI, and I can't even remember what I got in my GCSEs (something like 3A*s, 4As, 1B and 3Cs, but I don't remember exactly). I got ABC in my A levels though, and a 2:1 in my undergraduate degree (one poxy mark off a First :mad:).

Year 6 sats straight 5's

Year 9 sats english 6, science 7 (1 mark off an 8) and maths 8

Not like I care any more now that I'm in college doing A levels.

I was the same, except I got a 7 in Maths and an 8 in Science in year whatever it was during secondary school.

...four/five years ago, in seventh/sixth grade. Yeah. My PLAN test last year said I could get a perfect ACT. Not surprised. I'm about to take the ACT for a time that'll count, plus writing, on dec. 10th. I don't remember my score breakdowns, though, except that on the SAT one was 580 and the other was 550.

Oh, and on the IQ test thing, I agree with the fact that they vary widely. I took 5 different tests and got results from 160-something to 185, so I averaged them and got 179. Close enough. However, I will also agree that some people BS about scores. I know a kid who claims to have an IQ of 190 that can't for the life of him get anything higher than a C on a paper, can't do basic math, can't remember to OPEN doors before he walks through, and when asked, couldn't tell us what IQ stands for. Pretty sure he said it just so he'd sound smarter than the new kid (me).

Throwing IQs around really isn't a good idea... someone will only get hurt.

SAT's are bullshit. All they do are measure your ability to take the SAT. It is one of the most biased standardized tests, and if you have $1,000 to give to Princeton Review, they can raise your score--in essence, make you appear "smarter" than you actually are. If you don't have $1,000 to throw around, then you have to rely on those goddamn pre-sats you take in the gymnasium of your middle school.

More and more colleges are seeing this and realizing that the SAT is not an acurate or fair measure of intelligence. The only colleges I applied to that required me to submit my SAT scores were state colleges/universities. But of course, I intentionally applied to colleges that were known for being a little more progressive in their educational attitudes.

The year I applied, the college I attend now was ranked #16 in the nation, but only got a 1250 on my SATs. I took them once as a junior in high school after a night of heavy drinking, and refused to take them again. Why should I pay someone $50 dollars to make a saturday morning hell in order to prove that I understand that a frog:hop::kangaroo:bounce, or some other silly thing like that.

SAT 1360, 690 Math 670 Verbal (close to one of those odd splits)
note that due to some wierd filing error, I had to go to a highschool that was a 2hr drive away from my own, this meant leaving my house at 6am, I also forgot my calculator,

ACT 34

Now, maybe these standardized tests measure intelligence and maybe they don't. They do not measure success. I'm in my third year in a state university with a whopping gpa of 1.98 out of 4.0 ('bout a C-). Whereas my friend, who is a horrible test taker, recieved a 1080 on the SATs. He's currently making fourty grand a year doing web design while going to a pretty good private university.

I pity you chien américain de porc!*

My officially measured IQ is 157 and my bullshit internet IQ 97, go figure.

I did great on my QCS (HSC equivilant for Queensland) but handed in the vast majority of my assignments late. The funny thing is a got a summative grade of A+ on them, which was reduced to Cs for lateness and such. Thus I refuse to reveal my OP (Overall Position: In the State of Queensland^)


*Part of my Frenchification.... Shut up, I only started learning yesterday!and such

^A needlessly complicated formula measures your marks in each class against your classmates, then your class agains the state standard, takes into account your placement in the Queensland Core Skills exam and the placement in your Group and against your school and against your region and against the state....