What was your SAT/ACT score?

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Numerically speaking.

― Aaron A., Tuesday, 9 March 2004 05:58 (twenty-one years ago)

higher than dubya's.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 05:59 (twenty-one years ago)

ha, what was his? Is that in the public domain?

― Aaron A., Tuesday, 9 March 2004 06:00 (twenty-one years ago)

at least dubya was ivy league, though.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 9 March 2004 06:00 (twenty-one years ago)

i rest my case.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 06:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I got a 28 on the ACT, which isn't bad considering I barely graduated high school.

I don't count my SAT score because I had to take a dump really bad during the english part.

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 06:01 (twenty-one years ago)

(actually, dubya had a good SAT score -- i think he broke 1200. make of that what you will.)

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 06:02 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost to eisbar.

er, yeah.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 9 March 2004 06:02 (twenty-one years ago)

at the time of my admission, the school I went to didn't require SAT scores.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 9 March 2004 06:02 (twenty-one years ago)

fuck it ... mine was 1250; 700 verbal and 550 math. that's why i didn't get into yale -- or because i didn't apply.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 06:03 (twenty-one years ago)

why would you want to go to Yale anyways?

― hstencil, Tuesday, 9 March 2004 06:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I scored 830 on the SAT, but that was in the 6th grade. To this day I'm astonished I fucked it up that badly even as a 12 yr old. (I'm satisfied with my score as a HS junior)

― Aaron A., Tuesday, 9 March 2004 06:05 (twenty-one years ago)

why would you want to go to Yale anyways?

i didn't ... i wanted to go to princeton or penn.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 06:06 (twenty-one years ago)

the truth comes out.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 9 March 2004 06:07 (twenty-one years ago)

1400--i am living proof that it doesn't measure intelligence.

― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 06:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Is this as bad as (or worse than) asking someone how much they make?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 06:11 (twenty-one years ago)

it's nowhere near as bad. Unless you're like me and your score is equal to how much money you'll make this year.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 9 March 2004 06:12 (twenty-one years ago)

naw, that's when you ask someone what their LSAT/GMAT/GRE score was.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 06:13 (twenty-one years ago)

GRE = the devil. it's a worthless test, scores are very unreliable in my personal experience.

― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 06:14 (twenty-one years ago)

same w/ the LSAT.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 06:17 (twenty-one years ago)

y'know, it makes more sense to be bitter when you're unemployed.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 9 March 2004 06:20 (twenty-one years ago)

SAT - 1420 (720Q/700V)
GRE - 1500 (780Q/720V)

― Leee the Lee (Leee), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 06:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm winning so far!

― Leee the Lee (Leee), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 06:22 (twenty-one years ago)

if yer so smart, leee, why do you root for the niners?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 06:22 (twenty-one years ago)

damn Tad really now, who ran over your dog?

― hstencil, Tuesday, 9 March 2004 06:23 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm just joking!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 06:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm smart enough to look for a new team now!

xpost - I know!

btw, were there any witnesses when W. took his SATs? I'm thinking like that time Christopher Moltisanti got some Asian guy to take the broker's exam for him.

― Leee the Lee (Leee), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 06:25 (twenty-one years ago)

770V, 630M My father wanted me to retake them, which I'm still bitter about. (Hey, dude, isn't that worth some kind of "good job"?)

I don't actually know what that would have meant as far as college. My parents told me that I wasn't going to be able to get in anywhere and shouldn't even bother applying to the places I wanted to go (UT-Austin, Reed). I was a moron and believed them.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 06:25 (twenty-one years ago)

were SATs even required back then?

― hstencil, Tuesday, 9 March 2004 06:26 (twenty-one years ago)

that question was to Leeeee re: Dubya's SAT scores.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 9 March 2004 06:27 (twenty-one years ago)

shit milo i got that exact same score and got into UT easily. (went to A&M tho)

― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 06:27 (twenty-one years ago)

i thought that you were at UT, milo?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 06:29 (twenty-one years ago)

i got a 26 on my act, pretty mediocre.

― todd swiss (eliti), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 06:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I know one person at least on ILX did better than I, and there're probably a lot more too that are too smart to post on threads like this.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 06:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I go to a school in the UT system - er, went. I spent a couple of years fucking around at UT-A*lington (um, long story - but they let me apply and register less than a week before classes started, my first two semesters I had a 0.0GPA), started to rebuild my grades/life, crashed last semester. Now I'm trying to save money by taking my basics that I put off and didn't test out of at a community college.

(I'm happier at the CC than the glorified-CC, at least)

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 06:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't remember. I think I got a 1350? And a 31 or 32 on ACT.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 06:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Leee, you astound me.

I took the SAT several times and my scores always hovered around 1300 - 1350, which is probably kinda low-ish for these parts but at the time I received those scores I was pretty damn proud of what I got. ACT? I think around 30? I can't remember that one because that was the one I took toward the beginning of senior year and I can't even remember what I got on my finals that year, let alone the score to some test I took toward the beginning of it.

Bah. *just clicks "Submit" for the hell of it*

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 06:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Ooh ooh ooh, just figured out my GPA, though! I graduated HS with a GPA of 3.72, which I *still* feel is respectable, gosh darn it.

(It's very easy to recall my final grade because a lot of hard work and effort went into getting that.)

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 06:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Ok, I'm not dishing my GPA.

― Leee the Lee (Leee), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 06:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I have *some* sense, I'd like to think.

― Leee the Lee (Leee), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 06:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha! I only dish my GPA because that was easier for me than trying to recollect my exact ACT score! And because I had a calculator handy to convert the average into a 4.0 scale. And because I had nothing at all to hide, after revealing to the masses those scores.

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 07:00 (twenty-one years ago)

(just to be an ass i should clarify that i know at least one person on ilx w/a better score than mine, but not one that has divulged their score on this thread, ha ha)

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 07:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Milo your parents were really dicking you around you know. That sucks.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 07:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah. That's when you ask your folks what THEY got for an SAT score and watch amusing types of prevariccation follow.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 08:13 (twenty-one years ago)

hehe, i bested mr. LEEE on SAT/GRE (in math only).

― mr. obvious, Tuesday, 9 March 2004 08:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't taken the SATs since the 6th grade (having left high school and all), but I got 1160 then (620 verbal, 540 math).

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 08:55 (twenty-one years ago)

My combined SAT was better than Leee's. And that's back in the olden dayse, when there weren't giving >1400 scores away.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 08:56 (twenty-one years ago)

when there weren't giving >1400 scores away It's just always getting easier. No one with really high scores will admit them. At the start of uni though people talked about them, and I met several people at university who had perfect SAT scores, but no one ever discussed their GREs ha ha! Maybe at the 10 year reunion or something. I'm looking forward to taking the MCAT soon.

― marianna, Tuesday, 9 March 2004 11:08 (twenty-one years ago)

1250, not bad for a dumb shit.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 11:59 (twenty-one years ago)

1330 -- 660 Verbal, 670 Math. I was hugely disappointed because my mother had gotten a 1590-something (whatever "I only got one question wrong" comes out to) and I was sure I was smarter than her.

I can always remember my SAT scores, but am never certain of the raw scores for my GRE; but it's the GRE scores I've actually needed, since Hampshire didn't look at SATs.

(I had taken it because I tried to go to Hampshire without graduating high school; they said "stop failing math, and sure," and it took me the rest of the year to not fail math, by which point I had graduated anyway.)

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 12:33 (twenty-one years ago)

My ACT score was way more impressive than my SAT score (so of course I ended up at a school that cared about the SAT, hah).

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 13:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Jeez, this thread is like the party I went to at the Triangle frat freshman year.

― Kerry (dymaxia), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 13:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I got a 28 on my ACT -- I got a perfect score on every part of the test except for math, where I got a negative score for doing so poorly. Dragged down by math once again!

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 13:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha Kerry!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

1310 on my SAT's, I didn't prepare which was not an intelligent decision. Still, it had little effect on getting into the college of my choice. Though I did get a 710 (or so) on my GMAT's, which had a big impact on my choices. Or at least I think it did because looking at my fellow classmates in grad school the only way I could rationalize being there was to boost the average GMAT of my class (not a slam against anyone BTW, just that I was not the typical student they seemed to favour).

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

31 on the ACT. It was pretty much all that was responsible for getting me into college, since my HS grades were fairly shit.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I thank the Lord I live in a country that allowed me to leave maths alone for the rest of my life after the age of 16.

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 14:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Anna, the last maths-related formality I had to engage with at school was the math section of the SAT. It's good to get above 600 on each of the sections but people who've already set their cap towards something tend to do better on one section anyway. A lot of people pay for Kaplan courses at a crammer but I couldn't afford that and I think they can find out who goes and who doesn't anyway (some rich kids get 'extra help' for everything and I think too much of that looks brown-nose).

You can also augment your score by taking 3 Achievement tests which are scored like SATs but are actually a lot like A-levels.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Trying to perform a rough conversion from Australian GAT and ENTER scores, I score somewhere close to 1600. Not sure what that means.

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know what these tests are and how they work. Are they something like, or do they correlate well with, IQ tests? Or are they more knowledge-based?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

1400 on SATs, the interesting thing to me being that I got almost the same scores on math and English (710 English, 690 math). I'm one of those annoying people that despite being of average intelligence, tends to test well. I think when I took the SATs, I didn't realize what they were for or how important they were, so I was pretty relaxed, which helps a lot.

Martin, they are multiple choice tests that are used for college entry and nothing else. They are knowledge-based, not general intelligence. I think they've added some essay questions lately.

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, it's been awhile, but I don't think the ACT is very knowledge-based except for the math section. The rest is reading comprehension, science reasoning, etc. There's also a writing/grammar type section that I supposed is pretty knowledge-based, but that was the part came most naturally to me I think.

Never took the SAT.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I really hate the analogy section of standardized tests. They always come across to me as:

WEDDING:RIBBON :: COPROPHAGY:_________

A) NAPALM
B) INTERROBESFIXIA
C) ELF
D) IMBINGE
E) SQUARE

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

That is freakishly OTM. The answer is C btw.

(800 English, 520 Math)

― Allyzay, Tuesday, 9 March 2004 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

i got a 164 on my LSAT ... if anyone cares.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

What's the highest score on the LSAT?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

180

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

SAT: 710V, 720M.

This, of course, indicates well-rounded brilliance without the burden of freakish overendowment. Consequently I waltz through life more happily than less godlike creatures. And I own a bridge in Brooklyn, NY.

― Aimless (Aimless), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know why I keep clicking on this thread! SAT:730V, 720M; ACT: 34

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

A drummer I used to play with got like a 179 on the LSAT then.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I never took the SAT or LSAT. I took the ACT for some odd reason in 8th grade and got 30 on it. My GPA when I graduated was 1.66666etc. Numbers.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Dan, you still want to see if you did indeed get the highest ACT score of the group! :)

― marianna, Tuesday, 9 March 2004 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I was in like my second year of college before I heard "GPA" applied to high school; did all schools do that?

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

My LSAT was closer to the drummer than to the Eisbär.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

took the ACT 3 times. each time with a significant lessening of studying. a lot, a little, none at all. Always got a 29. (a 30 if you took the highest from each section).

however, i got a perfect 36 in the "dorkery" section, so i'm quite proud of that.

― Kingfish Cowboy (Kingfish), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Wait a second, I just looked back at Milo's scores and am SHOCKED at his parents!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

it IS kinda sad to talk about SAT/ACT/LSAT/GRE/GMAT/whatevah scores. i mean, my LSAT was a good bit above the average LSAT for the law school i ended up attending ... and i came nowhere NEAR graduating at the top of the class ("smart but lazy!"). so in the end, who cares?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

In the end, it doesn't really matter.

― Linkin Park (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 16:20 (twenty-one years ago)

exactly.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

If anything, though, doesn't talking about them sort of show that? I didn't think anyone was genuinely bragging or bemoaning their numbers.

I was disappointed with mine then, but was offered a free ride at a few different schools because of them. I'm neutral about em now, but I'm neutral about pretty much anything from 12 years ago.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 16:22 (twenty-one years ago)

People care the most about their scores on standardized tests when they have too few accomplishments by which to measure themselves. As an answer to the question, who am I, the SAT, ACT, GRE, LSAT, and so on suck. Objects in a void may appear larger than they are, for lack of other objects to lend them scale and perspective.

― Aimless (Aimless), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

i scored a 1450 SAT and a 29 ACT in the 7th grade.

and then a 1530 SAT and a 31 ACT senior year or whatever it was.

and now i am a big pot smoking loser.

― the angry cowboy (dick), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

(Whew, I am still ACT champion!)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

SATs -- 1100

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I have 20/10 vision.

― Aaron A., Tuesday, 9 March 2004 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I had the high score on Tron Discs, at Funspot in Amherst NH, for four months.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

angry cowboy, I spent a couple of years in that place, too. Then I figured out I was still going to wake up every day with the same set of problems until I did something different than what I was doing. Acquiring a new set of problems is strangely refreshing.

― Aimless (Aimless), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

wasted genius. it's a real shame.

HA!

― the angry cowboy (dick), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I will destroy you all in Tricky and SSX3.

I got a 1470, btw.

― Stuart (Stuart), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

This reminds me that my ex-girlfriend had a huge complex about her ACT score. She re-took it a few times and could never get about a 24 or 25 or something. She always got better grades than me through sheer determination and professor-befriending (okay, sucking up), and makes a good deal more money now of course. I always told her that standardized tests didn't measure intelligence, only test-taking ability. I was lying of course.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

(um, j/k. except not in her case. maybe.)

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I have yet to take the actual SAT, but I got a 1460 on the PSAT this year. (Should have been a 1490 IF ONLY I HADN'T MISREAD THE LAST MATH QUESTION)

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 9 March 2004 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

and I would've aced the math section too :(

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 9 March 2004 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

who tests the test-makers?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

my gpa when i got kicked out of college was 0.00

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

angry cowboy, who said anything about "wasted genius"? If you are hell bent on proving you are a dumb fuck, then I predict you will make a roaring success of it. You've probably been told too often how much potential you've got. Just drive a stake through the heart of that future and get it over with. You don't want it and you don't need it. Gotcha. Fine. No skin off my nose. Now do yourself a favor and stop wetting your pants in public.

― Aimless (Aimless), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 17:23 (twenty-one years ago)

SAT 1460 (800V, 660M). I don't remember ACT, maybe 33? I'm embarrassed when I think about how competitive I was about this shit in high school. Of course, I was friends with people that got annoyingly higher scores, including the stereotypical brilliant but emotionally fragile girl who'd cry if she got an A-. Now, I don't even remember what my GRE scores were (which is just as well, as I didn't end up going to grad school after all).

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 17:23 (twenty-one years ago)

act 32 (i think), sat 1300 (780 verbal, 520 math)

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

hey woah, aimless. i don't believe i was actually even addressing you and am therefore a little freaked out by your yelling at me.

i'm not trying to rock anybody's boat, calm down beavis.

― the angry cowboy (dick), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Jeez, you're all verbal-smart people.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 9 March 2004 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

is there anyone else here who got a higher score on math than verbal?

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 9 March 2004 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

act 35, sat 1560

average salary since graduating college: $9.50/hr.

(angry cowboy - i've been EXACTLY where you are and aimless is right, though yeah, he's being a little harsh about it. i winced at your post, and then i winced at aimless' post, too)

― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I got higher math than verbal on both the SAT and GRE -- only ten points for the former, I don't remember how much with the GRE. The GRE's the weird one, though, because the only math class I took in college was a rehash of stuff I'd taken as a freshman in high school -- just the basic gen-ed requirement. So I have no idea why my score went up.

(I mean, the GRE and SAT aren't the same test, of course, but even so.)

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I got higher math than verbal.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

hah whoops, that SAT should read 1500. which is actually bullshit too because i'm converting my score from the old pre-96 SAT scores. i have no idea why i'm doing that, either, since it only adds 60-odd points. my old anxiety about test scores = dies hard.

― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

now i am dying from embarassment.

― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)

i passed the series 7 exam with flying colors if that counts for anything. 90.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Whats with these people who got better ACT scores than me when they took them in the 7th grade? I don't really care about such tests or even being smart because, you know, I've accepted who I am, you know. But losing out to some (at the time) 12 year olds is just humiliating. I take some comfort in knowing that when I took the ACT my brain was severly drug-crippled.

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

i passed the series 7 exam with flying colors if that counts for anything. 90.

http://ia.imdb.com/media/imdb/01/I/76/49/60m.jpg

???

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

does anyone brag about their series 7 exam scores? that strikes me as being like bragging about yer bar exam score.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

same as jaymc's

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

GCSE: 2b2c3d1e Alevel: 1b2c

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

vahid, thanks. Yes, I was too harsh on angry cowboy. He's deep into a self-paced learning module called 'getting a grip'. I tried to toss him a clue and got angry when he didn't pick it up. I don't think my sympathy would do him any more good than my anger did. He'll just have to pick it up on his own.

― Aimless (Aimless), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 18:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Jel: We are divided by a common language, except it's not actually a common language when it comes to this stuff.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 18:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I know, I've always wanted a SAT score! They all seem high, like even if you do badly you've still got this big number to impress your grandparents with, rather than just saying "C but I didn't revise".

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Can't remember exactly but it was around the 1500 mark. Missed having a perfect score on the Verbal section because I answered ONE BLOODY QUESTION with English Grammar instead of American grammar. THERE IS NO SUCH WORD AS GOTTEN. THERE HAS NOT BEEN SINCE THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. NOW FUCK OFF!!!

Ha-hem. Bitter, moi?

― The River Kate (kate), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

only in the industry do we brag about our series 7 scores.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 18:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Threads like these are the reason why God kills people.
My scores were 610V 630M, btw.

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

God only kills people when kittens masturbate.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Oops: exactly the same as mine?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

It's not like my high score actually helped me with ANYTHING in my life, except maybe me forgetting to tick the box saying that I didn't want any colleges to mail me anything, and receiving TWO FULL BOXES of catalogues and offers of full scholarships to go to dull schools in the middle of nowhere.

― The River Kate (kate), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 18:26 (twenty-one years ago)

HOW 'BOUT THEM SAT II's??

I think I somehow managed to score in the 400s on the math SAT2, did alright in english and got somewhere in the 700s for history. Damn the University of California for forcing those awful tests upon millions.

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

The more I read this thread the worse I feel about my score. Damn you, math!

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

GAWD, ilXorZ even smarter than I expected SHOCKAH. I got 1370 with no prep or study. Throw in a Kaplan course and maybe I get 1330 with the added fatigue. I am what, in the 20th percentile here?

― Aaron A., Tuesday, 9 March 2004 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

1550 (800 verbal, 750 math) but these days my true source of pride is shooting a coloured bubble into a big mass of similarly coloured bubbles. I love the little popping noises it makes.

― syntaxfree, Tuesday, 9 March 2004 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm seeing a pattern here...

― The River Kate (kate), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh NOES! Ryan is an aggie too! Memories of the past. come. flooding. BAAAACK!!!!

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

ilXorZ even smarter than I expected SHOCKAH

Performance on standardized tests is not an indication of intelligence. It's an indication of how well-prepared you are to take a standardized test.

― Kerry (dymaxia), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Same as Lauren - sat 1300 (780 verbal, 520 math)

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I got the dull colleges begging for me mailshot after my scores too (same as Lauren and Luna but 580 on math side). Also un-confuse me: did scoring change after '96?

None of the colleges I wanted to go to were after ACT scores.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

SAT score conversion chart, although it's not clear to me if he's taking it from an official source or not.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 19:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm bored with SATs now, let's compare genitalia!

― Dan I., Tuesday, 9 March 2004 19:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Kerry OTM.

*lets all hang out* Dan, I challenge you to a schlong-fight!
ANYBODY SHUDDER YET?!!

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

At least no one has dug up the charts that claim to link your SAT-V score to IQ.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, no fair - my math score went down with that chart!

― Kerry (dymaxia), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Mine too, but pretty much everyone's verbal shoots up with it, so.

Oh, I guess I can't say my math was higher than my verbal, really.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

It's weird, because the rescoring was a long time coming -- obviously -- but it was under thorough enough discussion that when I took the SATs in 1992, four years apparently before it actually happened, they warned us that some kind of rescoring was in the wings and that we might need to school admissions committees on this. (I'm not sure what made the proctor think admissions committees would like ignore the big memo from ETS that said "RESCORING HELLO.")

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 19:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember I got 750 on the verbal and something like 500 on the math.

My GRE scores were embarassing (sub 1000). But I gave up on it about half an hour in because I decided I had no desire to ever go to graduate school.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I always tested badly on the verbal sections of things. But I did really well at math, which is funny because now basic arithmetic eludes me.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

My 700V is worth 640?!?

So many people are beating me now, I need a new ego-stroking number and here is my might gpa: 4.4

― Leee the Lee (Leee), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I got like a 1580 on my SATs (800v/780m), which I think is funny since my vocabulary is pretty small and shit. I only got a 30 on my ACTs though.

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 20:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Got a 1400 on the SAT - 650 verbal / 750 math
32 ACT

My high school GPA was garbage though, so I needed those scores. That was in 1990 with no prep courses or any of that jive. In fact I went out drinking and to a concert the night before the ACT. I never took the GREs and frankly I'd be scared to now.

Also I was one of the people who scored better in math than verbal, but I never had any interest in math. In high school, I always thought I would major in english once I got to college, and I ended up in anthropology.

― Broheems (diamond), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I want to know Dan's ACT score! Come on, Dan, spill the beans.

― Broheems (diamond), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Damn. My purposely inflammatory comment didn't work. :-(

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

700 math and 660 verbal and that equals 1350 total

― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

720/720

― !!!! (amateurist), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)

i mean on the sat

i don't remember the act score

― !!!! (amateurist), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)

no wait from the recesses of my mind comes the number 34

― !!!! (amateurist), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 21:02 (twenty-one years ago)

oh yeah this is before recentering, 1993 to be exact

― !!!! (amateurist), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 21:03 (twenty-one years ago)

so i guess my 26 ACT on ilx is not mediocre, but the bottom of the barrel instead.

― todd swiss (eliti), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 21:05 (twenty-one years ago)

WHAT ARE YOU ALL WHINING 'BOUT? GAHHHH!!!

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't remember exactly. Pre-recentering, I think it was 750 V and 710 M. Whatever it was, it was 1500 or better post-recentering. I wonder how I would have done if I had taken a course. Maybe worse.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 21:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Sat? (reaching back into prehistoric age) Think it was 900 Verbal / 750 Math.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 21:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Up until my senior year of high school, I waited for the bus every day with a girl who had a 1600 SAT and five 800 (also perfect) Achievement tests. felicity or Dan P might know her.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 21:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't remember it exactly, but my verbal score was very high, among the higest-ranked in my state. But my score on the math portion was piss-poor, bringing my final score to 1080.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 21:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I misspelled "highest". Arrgh. There ya go, Mr. High Verbal Score.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I've only met one person with a perfect score. He went to MIT and is now working for a comic book store.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 22:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Vengeance, thy name is meltdown

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 22:28 (twenty-one years ago)

SAT: 1530 (800M/730V)

― LITTLE LAMB [Jon Williams] (ex machina), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 22:30 (twenty-one years ago)

i know one person who got a 1600. he is doing engineering mechanics at the university of illinois even though he got excepted at MIT. he is smart as fuck and will get some job making a ton i am sure.

― todd swiss (eliti), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 22:36 (twenty-one years ago)

A guy at my school got a new Mercedez 560 SL for his 1600. Hahaha.

― Aaron A., Tuesday, 9 March 2004 22:39 (twenty-one years ago)

1460 on the SAT, and...
2370 on the GRE! 2370! 2370! WOO HOO! 2370! AHHH HA HA HA HA HA HAAAA! HEAR MY ROAR! TASTE MY POWER! RENT MY FORK! STAPLE MY TOWEL!
IIIIII'M BETTER THAN YOOOOOUUUU ARE! (sung to the tune of "Nyah, nyah, ny' nyah nyah")

― 2370 2370, Tuesday, 9 March 2004 22:44 (twenty-one years ago)

A bunch of people got very high to perfect scores on the SAT from my school, and a couple I know to not be that smart. Maybe it was a fluke year or something.

― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 22:50 (twenty-one years ago)

the descendents "hurtin' crue":

Hurtin' Crue
Hurtin' Crue
Hurtin' Crue
Good future
Get a life
Get a job
Get a clue

Thought it would be so much fun
Just played another solo run
Fifteen hippies drinkin' Coors
Yelling at us to play "Free Bird"
Needless to say, all of our pay
went into the tank

1420 1420 1420 1420
I am better than you
You are a piece of poo
I am better than you
You are a piece of poo
1420

Thought school would be such a blast
Just flunked another fucking class
Told myself too many lies
My mind's unfolding before my eyes
Now I know how it goes
What it means to go crazy

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 22:54 (twenty-one years ago)

A Nairn went to school with Scarlett Johannsen.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 22:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Whoa, I never listened to the lyrics to HURTIN' CRUE!!!

― LITTLE LAMB [Jon Williams] (ex machina), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 22:56 (twenty-one years ago)

and the Olsen twins (xp)

― Aaron A., Tuesday, 9 March 2004 23:01 (twenty-one years ago)

2370? Surely you mean 0732!

― Leee the Lee (Leee), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 01:01 (twenty-one years ago)

*befuddled at how this became a hot topic thread* Uh, 700 Math, 710 English, rah.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 01:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Oops: exactly the same as mine?

Nah, you did better than me on verbal, and I did better than you on math.
Did you take the SAT just because you had to for the National Merit thing?

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 01:08 (twenty-one years ago)

1350 SAT

― Ian Johnson (orion), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 01:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think I could ever dream of getting an 800 on Verbal

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 10 March 2004 02:38 (twenty-one years ago)

They're adding an essay section spring of next year, which pisses me off to no end since I'm the slowest writer in the world. And it's going to be out of 2400, which BOGGLES THE MIND

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 10 March 2004 02:40 (twenty-one years ago)

"Adding"?

― Allyzay, Wednesday, 10 March 2004 02:53 (twenty-one years ago)

SAT: 1100 in 1987, pre-rescoring. I had an almost perfect language score, a perfect reading score (I've been reading since I was 1 1/2, see), and a terrible math score. I've never been able to comprehend math beyond the junior high school level, despite years of tutoring.

― Christine 'Green Leafy Dragon' Indigo (cindigo), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 03:02 (twenty-one years ago)

first of all, whas ACT?

second, i honestly cannot recall exactly what my SATS were, you ppl actually do?? mebbe i am just blanking them out but between psats, sats and practice scores i have no fuckin clue

― H (Heruy), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 03:11 (twenty-one years ago)

No--but I happen to have them easily at hand with all my other stupid bullshit paperwork I had to send to Columbia. They're also the only one of those tests I ever took, no practices or ACTs so it's a little easier.

― Allyzay, Wednesday, 10 March 2004 03:14 (twenty-one years ago)

1200 in 1987 a.d. (700/500) I took the ACT but I forgot what my score was. Luckily, I was still able to get a National Merit Scholarship that actually said "For Outstanding Negroes" on the certificate.

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 03:35 (twenty-one years ago)

WOW do you still have this certificate?

― Allyzay, Wednesday, 10 March 2004 03:39 (twenty-one years ago)

why, YES! it's at my parents' house

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 03:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I only had the PSAT/SAT, so it isn't that much to remember. And obviously I'm still bitter about things.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 05:09 (twenty-one years ago)

SAT: 1530 (800M/730V)
-- LITTLE LAMB [Jon Williams] (william...), March 9th, 2004

and you're at ROCHESTER?!? OMGWTF, was yer high school gpa a 1.9 or something?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 05:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Now that some smartypants types have come out of the woodwork I'll admit it, I always am really impressed by the perfect verbal score people. I got 800M/740V SAT and a 34 ACT composite. I think there are about 40 people in each class at MIT that have a 1600 and about 40% of the class got a perfect on one section or the other. I find the people on ILX have better grammer and spelling and stuff than me - so the high verbal scores don't suprise me. :)

― marianna, Wednesday, 10 March 2004 10:58 (twenty-one years ago)

nichole is there a such thing as a 900???

the one guy i know who got a 1600 was a total misfit social maladjusted outcast in high school, but helped to found a software company that was bought out by dell or something and now he's incredibly rich but still maladjusted.

― !!!! (amateurist), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha Donna, I got one of those, too! HOORAY FOR NEGROES!

(My ACT score has since been beaten; it was 34.)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

750 V/710 M.. before they recentered the scores or whatever.

Brain death, school damage, straight As, etc.

― daria g (daria g), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

haha, this thread is funny. i got a 1570 (790 V / 780 M). my little brother got a 1600, though. bastard.

― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 18:03 (twenty-one years ago)

wow, I thought I was the only person who had that certificate! holla!

(1320 by the way, Harvard was clearly in need of more pretentious resume-whore boys from Oregon)

haha "Harvard"

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

j/k about the certificate by the way. although I almost went to morehouse!

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Dan, I am so relieved...people think I made that up. No 'urban' myth here.

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 18:51 (twenty-one years ago)

What's this about recentering SAT scores? I'm old; I missed that.

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 18:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Recentering of SAT I scores, as performed by the Educational Testing Service, refers to a statistical procedure that re-established the average SAT I verbal and math scores near the midpoint of the 200-800 scale. The recentered scale applies to all SAT Program test scores for tests taken on or after April 1, 1995. Prior to recentering, SAT I scores were based on norms derived from a 1941 sample of test-takers that had a significantly different demographic composition than the current population.
The recentering effort involved, first, a re-estimation of the SAT I verbal and math distributions based on a 1990 national sample of test takers, and second the derivation of new scoring procedures that generated more comparable scores nationwide. The resulting adjustments tended to increase and equalize the mean verbal and math scores and make their distributions more symmetric.
In particular, verbal scores were differentially increased relative to math scores, and are now more directly comparable to the math scores: A verbal score of 500 and a math score of 570 earned prior to recentering, for example, are both equivalent to recentered scores of 580, and these scores represent approximately the same relative level of performance in each of these two major areas. In general, SAT I test scores must now differ by around 60 points in order to indicate a statistically significant difference in performance.

For additional information, see the ETS Internet site at http://www.ets.org or the College Board site at http://www.collegeboard.org.

(Pasted rather than linked cause the first few useful hits I found were full of noise.)

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

thanks, and yet DAMMIT

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 19:10 (twenty-one years ago)

But it means you're 60 points more outstanding!

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

What's next? Posting of high school class rank?

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 19:13 (twenty-one years ago)

220/550ish

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 19:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Guys, I need you on celebrity gossip RIGHT NOW.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I was 32 or 33 out of a class of 300.

― Leee the Lee (Leee), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I was not allowed to be considered in the class standings.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 21:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Looks like the SAT doesn't test for irony.

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 21:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Ooh, GET HIM. ;-). And her...

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 21:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh no! I failed the ilx test!

― Leee the Lee (Leee), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Alas my wonderful, wonderful street cred!

― Leee the Lee (Leee), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Clap you hands everybody and everybody clap your hands
We’re Lamba Lambda Lambda and Omega Mu’s
We’ve come here on stage tonight to do a show for you
We got a rocking rhythm and a high tech sound
It will make you move your body down to the ground
We got Poindexter on the violin
Gilbert and Lewis will be joining in
We got Takashi beating on his gong
The boys and the mu’s are clapping along
We got Booger Presley on a mean guitar
And rap by little ol’ me Lamar
And just when you think you see it all
Along comes a Lambda four foot tall
So won’t come on out there on the floor
And we can work our bodies like never before
Breaaaaaaaaaaaak…

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 21:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I wish i could remember my high school rank. It was something like 230/250.

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 21:42 (twenty-one years ago)

11 out of 300ish. If Gina Rullo hadn't graduated a year early, I would have been in the top ten and therefore I might have gone to school with hstencil.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 21:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe we should institute an application to ILX process.

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 21:50 (twenty-one years ago)

SAT: 1530 (800M/730V)
-- LITTLE LAMB [Jon Williams] (william...), March 9th, 2004
and you're at ROCHESTER?!? OMGWTF, was yer high school gpa a 1.9 or something?
-- Eisbär (llamasfu...) (webmail), March 10th, 2004 12:34 AM. (llamasfur) (later) (link)

I had like a 3.2 I think? Tons of AP/honors classes, etc.

― LITTLE LAMB [Jon Williams] (ex machina), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 22:15 (twenty-one years ago)

29 ACT (w/ a 36 on Math...I tanked the other parts in part thanks to taking NO science classes prior to the test)

1380 (750 Math, 630 Verbal)

― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 22:35 (twenty-one years ago)

What's wrong with Rochester?

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 11 March 2004 00:06 (twenty-one years ago)

they totally let the kings move to sacramento! smart move morons!

― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 11 March 2004 00:07 (twenty-one years ago)

No way, the Kings used to be based in Rochester?! My family's from there and I never knew that.

It's a good school; I don't know what Tad was on about up there. They're in the same athletic conference as the school I went to. Division III baby!

― Broheems (diamond), Thursday, 11 March 2004 00:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Yea, we're like #35 in USNEWSANDWORLDREPORT

― LITTLE LAMB [Jon Williams] (ex machina), Thursday, 11 March 2004 00:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I got a 980 (600 verbal/380 math) on the SAT as a sophmore in the spring of 1986 while being deathly hung over. I didn't have a chance in hell of going to a prestigious out of state school anyway, so I didn't take the test again.

My younger sister went with me and a friend to take the test and she laughed her ass of at me throwing up in the parking lot before going in to take the test.

― earlnash, Thursday, 11 March 2004 00:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Gilbert and Lewis will be joining in

explains the presence of "Three Girl Rhumba" in outtakes

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Thursday, 11 March 2004 01:03 (twenty-one years ago)

This thread is large enough now that no one will notice me posting the score that, until being humbled by several people in this thead, I thought was pretty great: 1460 (V:790 M:670, I couldn't remember the math score just now and had to fire up the calculator cause I couldn't do the subtraction in my head, d'oh).

― Dan I., Thursday, 11 March 2004 01:30 (twenty-one years ago)

SAT: 1580 (math was 800). Didn't take the ACT. 800s on the GREs.

― Douglas (Douglas), Thursday, 11 March 2004 01:37 (twenty-one years ago)

sat 1560, gre 1520/6

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 11 March 2004 02:10 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.modsvsrockers.com/bush2.jpg

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 11 March 2004 02:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I am SO voting Bush now!

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Thursday, 11 March 2004 03:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I got a 29 on the ACT. I also passed my high school ballroom dancing exam with flying colors. These two tests have proven to be pretty close to equivalent in terms of the amount of good they've done me.

― kirsten (kirsten), Thursday, 11 March 2004 03:48 (twenty-one years ago)

i honestly didn't know that rochester was that highly ranked ... though i dunno what to think about USN&WR's rankings generally. anyway, before being corrected here i kinda thought it was an OK-but-not-spectacular (like syracuse). but whudda i know, my puny 1250 SAT marks me off as a dummy round here.

i took the ACT b/c i had nothing better to do ... i think i might've gotten 29s and 30s, which i remember being OK.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 11 March 2004 03:52 (twenty-one years ago)

"Trying to perform a rough conversion from Australian GAT and ENTER scores, I score somewhere close to 1600. Not sure what that means. "

Andrew, how do you convert Aussie scores?

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 11 March 2004 04:22 (twenty-one years ago)

i dunno what to think about USN&WR's rankings generally

very little

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 11 March 2004 04:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Just what schools do you approve of Tad?

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 11 March 2004 08:53 (twenty-one years ago)

What's next? Posting of high school class rank?

49 of 750 or something like that. i was an underachiever by the standards of my friends.

― !!!! (amateurist), Thursday, 11 March 2004 11:33 (twenty-one years ago)

still am

― !!!! (amateurist), Thursday, 11 March 2004 11:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I also wasn't allowed to be ranked, because I had only been at my graduating high school for 2 years. I would have been valedectorian, which is ironic, because apparently I can't even spell it. But everyone else there was even stupider than me.

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 11 March 2004 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

ACT: 31
SAT: 730 Verbal/700 Math

― stephen morris, Thursday, 11 March 2004 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

if i were just a few years out of hs, this thread would offend me as being gauche and a strange means for people to be self_aggrandizing while appearing casual about it

but since it's been like 10 years i think it's just fun

(= answer to mary's queasiness sort of)

― !!!! (amateurist), Thursday, 11 March 2004 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I got a 23 on the ACT, i can't remember my GRE scores, and my IQ was recently tested to 129.

Lots of smartypants's around here, though -- makes me feel like running home and throwing on some Human League... nagh.

― christoff (christoff), Thursday, 11 March 2004 22:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Just what schools do you approve of Tad?

oh, i'm not picky ... my philosophy is really that one should get into the best -- and CHEAPEST -- school that one can get into. unless you can get into an ivy or an ivy-caliber school -- NOT because those schools are "better" or because a student will get a better education there than at State X University, but because a degree from an ivy-caliber school will have more punch. i don't like the fact that this is the way it is, but that is the way it is.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 11 March 2004 22:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Then how are Ivy Leauges indefensible?

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 12 March 2004 01:49 (twenty-one years ago)

The Sacramento Kings NBA team moved there from Kansas City. Nate "Tiny" Archibald used to play for them way back then.

― Aimless (Aimless), Friday, 12 March 2004 03:02 (twenty-one years ago)

31 ACT. I did really well on the science part even though it was my worst subject. They made it really hard that year and I managed to get a lot of questions right and come out ahead of the curve.

163 on the LSAT recently, which is good enough to get me waitlisted at my two safe schools.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 12 March 2004 03:20 (twenty-one years ago)

i didn't even look at the ivy leagues thread because anyone who would bash those places on principle is just being a fool

― !!!! (amateurist), Friday, 12 March 2004 12:01 (twenty-one years ago)

and anyone who would bash them "on experience" is just myopic

― !!!! (amateurist), Friday, 12 March 2004 12:02 (twenty-one years ago)

It's okay to bash them on principle if you want, but how can you at the same time bash someone for not going to one? It maes no sense.

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 12 March 2004 22:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I was hoping Christoff's IQ mention would catch on, then we can all play. And I might even have a chnace of 'winning' - I'm dead good at IQ tests.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 12 March 2004 22:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm always 140-145... right there b/w Dubya and Goethe.

― Aaron A., Friday, 12 March 2004 22:21 (twenty-one years ago)

They had IQ tests in Goethe's day?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 12 March 2004 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I've ascribed him 190

― Aaron A., Friday, 12 March 2004 22:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I got a 1600 as the highest SAT grade that I took (first being 1430 :/ )and a 34 on the ACT. I'll never ever touch the GRE's.

― aNatheMa (aNatheMa), Saturday, 13 March 2004 01:37 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't know anyone who has actually had an iq test

― !!!! (amateurist), Saturday, 13 March 2004 12:13 (twenty-one years ago)

My school gave everyone an IQ test in first grade, but they didn't tell anyone the results. However those who did really well were put into 'gifted' classes.

― oops (Oops), Saturday, 13 March 2004 13:07 (twenty-one years ago)

IQ tests are tideous, all those boring questions about shapes, and X is bigger than Y but Z is smaller than Q, and Q is stupid, get on my nerves, and I just end up guessing.

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 13 March 2004 13:18 (twenty-one years ago)

There is an old IQ test thread here:

I think the link still works to the IQ test.

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 13 March 2004 13:24 (twenty-one years ago)

ten months pass...

I just got my SAT score back. 1520 (790 math, 730 verbal). This was from the last 1600-format test - from now on it's going to be out of 2400.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 4 February 2005 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)

27 ACT. which was the highest in my graduating class. which says something i guess. besides us all being dumbasses i mean. they didn't teach TO the test at that time. everyone does now i think. scores have risen on average everywhere since '89, '90 (when i took it) i think i've read. or maybe i'm just being defensive.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 4 February 2005 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

also, i'm from mississippi, so what are you gonna do.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 4 February 2005 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow, congrats, Curtis!!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 4 February 2005 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe a 32 act? is that a possible score?

sat was 1300: 780 verbal, 520 math.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 4 February 2005 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Lauren, I'm guessing you had a 32 ACT, as that's what you said a year ago when this thread was first created. :-)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 4 February 2005 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Is this as bad as (or worse than) asking someone how much they make?
-- Spencer Chow (spencercho...), March 8th, 2004 10:11 PM. (spencermfi)
it's nowhere near as bad. Unless you're like me and your score is equal to how much money you'll make this year.

-- hstencil (hstenci...), March 8th, 2004 10:12 PM.

sorry jorel, but this is funny!

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 4 February 2005 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

i got a 1580, which still got me rejected from every school i applied to.

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 4 February 2005 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Congrats Curtis, nice work!

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 4 February 2005 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

i think some of you are lying.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 4 February 2005 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

800 verbal, 770 math the first time I took them, for the hell of it, as a freshman in high school. (Note: not a popular or socially well-adjusted freshman in high school.)

I never took the ACT or SAT II (and naturally ended up at a school that didn't care much about silly things like GPA or test scores).

― Daniel Cohen (dayan), Friday, 4 February 2005 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

SAT 790 Verbal, 530 Math, didn't take ACT, took 2 AP exams instead.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 4 February 2005 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

wait did you folks take the test after "recentering"??? (i.e. after 1994??)

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 4 February 2005 18:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I took mine in 1995.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 4 February 2005 18:03 (twenty-one years ago)

"recentering" = "the difficulty of the test increases so that the national average was closer to 800"?

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 4 February 2005 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Was there an ACT during the Carter Administration? Never took it.

My PSAT score was something like 1480, which scholarshipped me into NYU when I couldn't have afforded it otherwise. And led to my self-descrip as "Boo Radley with a National Merit Scholarship."

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 4 February 2005 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

i took it in 1997

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 4 February 2005 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

whippersnappers

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 4 February 2005 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

act: 30

gre: (i only remember the percentiles) verbal: 99, analytical 76, quantitiative: 43 (ouch!)

― f--gg (gcannon), Friday, 4 February 2005 18:11 (twenty-one years ago)

1600!

― peter smith (plsmith), Friday, 4 February 2005 18:22 (twenty-one years ago)

1450 (800/650) on the SAT and 32 on the ACT.

My ACT scores were crazy! I had a 36 on like everything else and a 22 on math. They didn't let us have claculators so I said fuck it and just filled in shit randomly for the second half of the test. I hate arithmetic with a fucking passion.

― TOMBOT, Friday, 4 February 2005 18:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Sat? (reaching back into prehistoric age) Think it was 900 Verbal / 750 Math.

-- Nichole Graham (britbab...) (webmail), March 9th, 2004. (link)

This is my favorite post of the thread.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 4 February 2005 18:38 (twenty-one years ago)

i got a 1580, which still got me rejected from every school i applied to.
-- phil-two (philtw...), February 4th, 2005.

well, you got into nyu didn't you?

i got a 1470, which i was proud of until i read this thread....don't get me wrong, i don't think these things are true measures of intelligence--but they sure can be a measure of how well one can size up the test-maker. half the time i never knew the answer, but i could tell what dot i was supposed to fill in just by analyzing how the question was written.

― waxyjax (waxyjax), Friday, 4 February 2005 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahaha I took my SAT when I was 22.

― Allyzay Dallas Multi-Pass (allyzay), Friday, 4 February 2005 18:40 (twenty-one years ago)

well, you got into nyu didn't you?

i didn't really apply to nyu, i sort of talked my way in in may/june when i got all the rejection letters.

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 4 February 2005 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

talked my way in is that one of them new gay sex terms? LJ Oliva was so your type.

― waxyjax (waxyjax), Friday, 4 February 2005 18:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I also got a 1580, which has resulted in me getting laid CONSTANTLY.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 4 February 2005 18:53 (twenty-one years ago)

ACT was a 29. took it three times, prepared dramatically less each time. if you took the best scores from each, it wound up to be like a 30.

― Kingfish MuffMiner 2049er (Kingfish), Friday, 4 February 2005 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

cmon, guys! 1600! be impressed! let me rest on my laurels!

― peter smith (plsmith), Friday, 4 February 2005 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

i totally would've thought tom would have done better on math tests!!

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 4 February 2005 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

talked my way in is that one of them new gay sex terms? LJ Oliva was so your type.

really? i dont even know what he looked like. but no, didnt i tell you how i got into nyu? basically i had no school to go to because i got rejected from everywhere, called up nyu, told them that i was a national merit scholar, and they basically said on the phone that i was accepted, and to send in my transcript and sat score and etc. so easy

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 4 February 2005 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

phil, you are my hero

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 4 February 2005 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

awesome

(i got into nyu 'early action'. they didn't have an early action program. i suppose this has more to do with my mom being on the faculty than my great genius.)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:04 (twenty-one years ago)

phil, what other schools did you apply to?

― waxyjax (waxyjax), Friday, 4 February 2005 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)

My NYU prez was John Brademas, former congressman. And I made out with a girl while Rick Rubin blasted his early output in the dorm room above.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 4 February 2005 20:26 (twenty-one years ago)

half the time i never knew the answer, but i could tell what dot i was supposed to fill in just by analyzing how the question was written

Such reasoning is possible for lots of multiple choice tests. Understanding this is key for doing well on them.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 4 February 2005 20:28 (twenty-one years ago)

1370 (690 verbal, 680 math).

N/A wrote: I'm one of those annoying people that despite being of average intelligence, tends to test well.

Because standardized tests are uniform in many ways, and it's a sign of intelligence by itself that you can recognize these patterns easily. I'm the same way. After you take a lot of tests, you just get good at it.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Friday, 4 February 2005 20:35 (twenty-one years ago)

1340 (640 math/700 verbal). this test is total bullshit and i decided to major in math anyway (math is, also, total bullshit.)

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Friday, 4 February 2005 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)

nick is smarter than he thinks he is, i think

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 4 February 2005 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

also, what kenan said

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 4 February 2005 20:54 (twenty-one years ago)

phil, what other schools did you apply to?

um, georgetown, columbia, northwestern, tufts, duke, stanford, dartmouth i forgot what else. but then when i got rejected to them all, i called up a few other schools besides nyu, and also got into usc, vanderbilt, george washington, and um, arizona state. im pretty glad i ended up at nyu though. thank god for standardized tests.

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 4 February 2005 20:56 (twenty-one years ago)

wow. either there are a lot of really good test-takers here or they're the only ones willing to post their scores. Of course, scoring well on these exams doesn't correlate with real-world success/happiness.

SAT: 1380 (690/690).
GMAT: 730. it's amazing how much b-schools rely on these test scores, mine saved me many tens of thousands of dollars.
GRE: don't remember, but I know it wasn't very good. took it without any preparation, which was a mistake.

― tobo (tobo), Friday, 4 February 2005 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)

scoring well on these exams doesn't correlate with real-world success/happiness.

surely you're joking

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 4 February 2005 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

My daughter takes the ACT a week from tomorrow. Any opinions on whether she should take the SAT also?

― Curious George Rides a Republican (Rock Hardy), Friday, 4 February 2005 21:04 (twenty-one years ago)

if she wants to attend a college outside of the midwest, i'd suggest yes

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 4 February 2005 21:05 (twenty-one years ago)

(or wants to get a merit scholarship at a major midwestern university...)

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 4 February 2005 21:05 (twenty-one years ago)

i really meant that there's no correlation between doing well on such tests and actual intelligience.

anyone every put their test scores on their resume? I've recently heard of people doing this, and can't believe that any serious employer would take it into consideration. maybe that's why I don't have a job.

― tobo (tobo), Friday, 4 February 2005 21:05 (twenty-one years ago)

amateurist otm

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 4 February 2005 21:06 (twenty-one years ago)

i think putting test scores on a resume would be seriously gauche.

however you could probably fudge it by saying you were a merit finalist or something. although i wouldn't keep *that* on my resume past age 21 or so.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 4 February 2005 21:07 (twenty-one years ago)

i have absolutely no recollection of taking this ACT. The only thing I remember about the SAT's was that a hot guy was sitting next to me so I couldn't do math. I think I got the same score as Lauren. I graduated 2nd out of 620something people. But I didn't get to make a speech because the last time I made a speech I had used hand puppets.

― S!monB!rch (Carey), Friday, 4 February 2005 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

re resumes: we don't have these tests in the UK, and I don't put an IQ score on my CV, but I did once say in an interview, while explaining that I was looking for something that would allow me to extend myself, something like "I'm supposed to have an IQ over 200, and I'd like to try to make use of that." I got the job, but I don't know if that played any part.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 4 February 2005 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

martin wouldn't "i'd like to be challenged" have sufficed?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 4 February 2005 21:11 (twenty-one years ago)

well, most of the people I know who listed their scores on their resumes were coming straight out of business school, with minimal work experience, and looking for positions in big-time mgmt consulting. god, I'm so glad I'm done with business school. just typing those words made me feel dirty.

― tobo (tobo), Friday, 4 February 2005 21:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't even think testing well necessarily means that you consciously recognize patterns or whatever, I think standardized testing tends to reward certain types of thinking. For example, I tend to work quickly without a lot of backtracking or second thoughts, which certainly isn't a measure of intelligence (lots of smart people work slowly and methodically, and a lot of times I fuck things up by trying to work too fast), but it helps your scores on timed tests.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 4 February 2005 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)

That's what amst meant, I think, when he suggested that these tests DO reflect real-world success. Not happiness, no, but they test for the skills that the business world most values. You don't take an SAT to find out if you're going to be a good poet. What would be the point?

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Friday, 4 February 2005 21:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Which is to say, one of the skills they're testing is whether or not you've figured out how to take a test.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Friday, 4 February 2005 21:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, Amateurist, it's pretty bad showing off, but that is a part of a job interview, obviously. I thought slipping it in in a pretty casual way might work to my advantage.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 4 February 2005 21:18 (twenty-one years ago)

he suggested that these tests DO reflect real-world success

i was being sarcastic!

(or was i...)

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 4 February 2005 21:19 (twenty-one years ago)

(yes, you were)

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 4 February 2005 21:20 (twenty-one years ago)

actually i just sort of think it's a complicated issue. i agree w/n.a. that certain skills are valuable for taking tests, and they aren't necessarily the same skills that will be necessary for whatever program you're taking the test to get into. but i also think that these tests are a lot more than the "total bullshit" they're often (dis)credited with being. in fact such dismissals have irritated me ever since i read (and was not really convinced by) the book "none of the above."*

*this book did, however, provide me with a total loathing of the "nonprofit" companies that create and administer the SAT and GRE, etc.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 4 February 2005 21:22 (twenty-one years ago)

to put this another way, the question of WHAT exactly the SAT/GRE tests and what sort of relevance it has to "success" in school (and of course, the matter of how you define such success apart from grades) raises all sorts of interesting questions about learning, intelligence, psychology.... questions that the overly dismissive attitude that people often take seem to gloss over. (just as the hypothetical "SAT's are totally awesome!" people would gloss them over, although such people are very hard to find nowadays.)

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 4 February 2005 21:24 (twenty-one years ago)

raises all sorts of interesting questions about learning, intelligence, psychology....

not to mention economics. "Nonprofit."

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Friday, 4 February 2005 21:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I got a 1450 SAT score. Surprised me since I didn't study or anything, and failed math twice in high school.

― -rainbow bum- (-rainbow bum-), Friday, 4 February 2005 21:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I think you're selling yourself short, NA. Testing well isn't so much about recognizing patterns but an intuitive ability to read deeper than the question itself, into the author's intent.
It's a different type of intelligence than someone who works slowly and methodically, checking every answer twice, but no less a type of intelligence (or maybe better put, a way of utilizing intelligence).

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Friday, 4 February 2005 21:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I scored something ridiculously low on the ACT, like 17 or something (I'm serious). I just skipped the whole math portion, I think.

I also did horribly on the GRE. That experience was far worse. I was praying to get into a good graduate school, and whats terrible about taking the GRE is that you know your score as soon as you're finished. I don't remember my exact score but it was just below average. I was devastated because I'd spent months studying.

I am terrible at standardized tests.

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Friday, 4 February 2005 22:34 (twenty-one years ago)

i think putting test scores on a resume would be seriously gauche.

I put my SAT math score on my resume and it helped me get a job. The reason I did it is because my work and collegiate experience was largely literary or arts-based, and the job involved a large technical component. And actually, it almost helped me get a job a second time later on.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 4 February 2005 23:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I did quite well on the GREs in all sections except for writing. Which is odd, inasmuch as my choice of profession.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Friday, 4 February 2005 23:47 (twenty-one years ago)

i did really suck on the SAT-IIs for french. i got like a 350

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 4 February 2005 23:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I was feeling inadequate in comparison to you all until I found out about the pre-96 thing. According to my old scores, I did "better" on math than verbal, but according to the new scores, it was the other way around:
740V 680M

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Saturday, 5 February 2005 00:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I went to public school in Montana and was the only one in my class to take the SAT. I had to drive an hour to Missoula to take it. It didn't occur to me to try to take it again.

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Saturday, 5 February 2005 00:07 (twenty-one years ago)

i took my test pre-96, fwiw.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Saturday, 5 February 2005 00:23 (twenty-one years ago)

maria how do you adjust your pre-96 scores to reflect the new system?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 5 February 2005 00:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I actually just took the SATs...sort of on a lark (because I'm still contemplating college and I didn't want to take the new test with the writing section). I felt ridiculous being there, being at least 4-5 years older than all the other test-takers... And I didn't do as well as I hoped. I got a 760V, which is pretty good, I guess, but I'm irrationally quite displeased with it... And a 570M, which I suppose was to be expected considering I haven't seen the inside of a math book in 5 years and I completely forgot to study at all.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Saturday, 5 February 2005 08:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think whatever correlation standardized tests have with intelligence is limited to specific kinds of intelligence. I could've sworn I saw a couple (more than a couple, prob) of studies linking standardized test performance with "G".
Believing in that, though, assumes a person believes in G(eneral intelligence) to begin with (which assumes you believe in factor analysis, etc etc oh no house of cards!).

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Saturday, 5 February 2005 09:06 (twenty-one years ago)

The real-world success thing is pretty inarguable though, as long as you define real-world success by doing well in school and making more money.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Saturday, 5 February 2005 09:08 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

lol this thread, i amazingly can still remember my scores 20 years on, but not my GREs which I took 7-8 years later. lots of smarties here (at least standardized testing wise), even factoring 10-15% bs markup.

― timmy tannin (pompous), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 07:22 (nineteen years ago)

510v/530m

lots of smarties here, almost everyone broke a thou

― oh, wrinklepaws! (Wrinklepaws), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 10:58 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think I ever once finished a math section completely. I am terribly slow at it, plus just plain terrible at geometry.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 11:13 (nineteen years ago)

So long ago! I had dropped out of high school and gone on to an experimental unaccredited school for a year, then art school for three. By the time I decided to go to college I was 22 and very patchily-educated. I had to go take the test in a DC high school. Can't remember the exact numbers. Very high English, abysmal math.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 11:25 (nineteen years ago)

31 ACT, something mediocre and forgettable on SAT because I had already applied and got accepted to the schools I wanted and they all took both.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

well, i got one of the higher scores here, but i still have never had a real job in my life. what does that say?

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

780 V, 560 M

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

I never took the SAT cos I went to a midwestern school, true enough. I sort of wish I had, a test is a test is a test, right? Oh well. Got a 31 on the ACTs which I see is pretty normal around here.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

To the best of my recollection, 740 V / 520 M (pre 96).

When I attended BU a couple years ago I aced the statistics course that slaughtered the entire class, so more anecdotal evidence of the SAT failing to measure someone's aptitude.

Do they still award scholarships to perfect SAT scores?

― Edward III (edward iii), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

When I attended BU a couple years ago I aced the statistics course that slaughtered the entire class, so more anecdotal evidence of the SAT failing to measure someone's aptitude.

YOU WENT TO BU?? I GO TO BU!!!

(p.s. 800 V / 620 M - I didn't get a scholarship for my perfekt verbal but I did get a free pepsi from my high school principal. Jackass.)

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Thursday, 10 August 2006 00:07 (nineteen years ago)

I just reread this thread and reclicked that link to convert pre-96 to post-96 scores and I'm smarter than I thought I was -- 740V, 720M. But seriously, tests like this are such crap -- so much depends on how you feel that day.

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Thursday, 10 August 2006 00:36 (nineteen years ago)

770 v 710 m (1999)

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 10 August 2006 00:37 (nineteen years ago)

740v, 630m in 1992

which makes me 800 in verbal and... exactly the same in math?? WHY R YOU EASYING UP THE SOFT PART INSTEAD OF WHIPPING US WITH TEH BRUTE FORCE OF PURE REASON

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 10 August 2006 00:42 (nineteen years ago)

I'm doubtful that I could break 450-500 on the math portion now going in cold.

I can't remember the last time I really thought about algebra or geometry (oh, yeah, it was the day I took my SAT as a sophomore, never took a math class after that). Last week It took me a minute to remember how to multiply large numbers (oh yeah add the zero there and you carry that number here...).

― milo z (mlp), Thursday, 10 August 2006 00:44 (nineteen years ago)

i only got a 23 ON THE ACT! i was sooo gutted afterward, too, like it was PROOF of my idiocy.

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Thursday, 10 August 2006 00:55 (nineteen years ago)

I took the SATs in 1989 and it seems I am both old and stupid.

I hate you all.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 10 August 2006 00:58 (nineteen years ago)

I think I made 27 on the ACT, but it was so long ago I can't remember for sure.

― Whitman Mayonnaise (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 10 August 2006 01:04 (nineteen years ago)

770 V, 610 M (1981)

― xero (xero), Thursday, 10 August 2006 01:08 (nineteen years ago)

700 V / 770 M (1999)

― a.b. (alanbanana), Thursday, 10 August 2006 02:00 (nineteen years ago)

i can't believe people can remember this stuff. My TEE was in 1993 and I haven't a clue what the exact mark was. I had to have a guess at it for a job application last week.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 10 August 2006 02:24 (nineteen years ago)

800 V / 740 M (19...um...2000, maybe?)

but what about the GRE? I have to take that this year and people are telling me I actually have to study for it. Yuck.

― Maria (Maria), Thursday, 10 August 2006 02:58 (nineteen years ago)

Six billion.

― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 10 August 2006 02:59 (nineteen years ago)

dudes seriously go back and re-read the posts from 2/4/05

― S-L-U-G (plsmith), Thursday, 10 August 2006 03:03 (nineteen years ago)

oh just summarize them for us

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 10 August 2006 03:11 (nineteen years ago)

since i revived, i should not deny you the important info you can't live without - 710V/680M (sometime in the later stages of reagan's 1st administration)

― timmy tannin (pompous), Thursday, 10 August 2006 03:30 (nineteen years ago)

740/740 in 1998
act was 32 i think

― sleep (sleep), Thursday, 10 August 2006 04:22 (nineteen years ago)

but what about the GRE? I have to take that this year and people are telling me I actually have to study for it. Yuck.

-- Maria (silyl_ari...), August 9th, 2006 11:58 PM. (Maria) (later) (link)

I know I am in the same boat. :ccc STUDY FOR TESTS???

Fun fact: My math score improved all of 70 points when I took the test my sophomore/junior year from when I took it in SEVENTH GRADE. Lololololol I can't count.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Thursday, 10 August 2006 11:14 (nineteen years ago)

You don't have to study for the GRE per se, just get a few practice tests so that you know what's expected of you, especially for the analytical section.

― marianna (mariannapm), Thursday, 10 August 2006 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah that is probably a good idea considering I only have a vague idea of the format. :p Although walking in with zero knowledge would me major laffs, I hear they average your scores instead of letting you use the best one?

Ewwww, me starting a "please hold my hand while I make grad school decisions" thread is imminent. :(

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Thursday, 10 August 2006 12:08 (nineteen years ago)

YOU WENT TO BU?? I GO TO BU!!!

-- Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr...), August 9th, 2006.

Yeah, except I'm assuming you attend the decrepit & Dickensian Boston campus and are majoring in something interesting, while I attended the quasi-corporate-training-center in N Attleboro and got a bore-ass business degree, squandering my (adjusted, natch) 800 verbal SAT score. The things I'll do to feed the family...

― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

Enough with the adjusted scores!

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

Fuck that. In the wave of a magical wand the disappointing results of my painstaking search for total perfection have bore fruit; I will not let go.

― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 10 August 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

Alternative titles for this thread?

1. If your SAT/ACT score was a penis, how big would it be?

― Z S, Monday, 29 October 2007 01:43 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.seihin-world.com/i/04/06/toilet.jpg

― Z S, Monday, 29 October 2007 01:45 (eighteen years ago)

My ACT would be a 30 cm dick.

― Abbott, Monday, 29 October 2007 01:45 (eighteen years ago)

2. Achievements that you wish you could casually bring up in everyday conversation as often as possible

― Z S, Monday, 29 October 2007 01:48 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.just-for-kids.com/gif/walterplush.jpg

― Z S, Monday, 29 October 2007 01:48 (eighteen years ago)

JESUS CHRIST. I REALLY FUCKED UP THE SCIENCE SECTIOn ON SATURDAY.

― Tape Store, Monday, 29 October 2007 01:58 (eighteen years ago)

I had this idea when I took the ACTs that it was only really an accurate measurement of your knowledge if you didn't study. Later I found out everyone studied. I mean, I knew that at the time, but I didn't realize it could like help you in college and stuff (get into better college). It still seems like cheating to me though!

My youngest sister just scored a 19 on her second try. : (

― Abbott, Monday, 29 October 2007 02:15 (eighteen years ago)

everyone who posted a score needs to get punched in the face

― Hurting 2, Monday, 29 October 2007 03:55 (eighteen years ago)

One question - I have a 170 LSAT from last year and not very good grades (though I'll be 5+ years out of school when I apply). I know I didn't do my best (I scored 175 on my last practice test, and I think I could prepare more than I did) - should I retake the LSAT or is it not worth it?

-- Hurting 2, Sunday, June 10, 2007 4:01 PM (Sunday, June 10, 2007 4:01 PM) Bookmark Link

― gabbneb, Monday, 29 October 2007 04:12 (eighteen years ago)

lols

― Hurting 2, Monday, 29 October 2007 04:14 (eighteen years ago)

We could all use a good punch in the face.

― Hurting 2, Monday, 29 October 2007 04:14 (eighteen years ago)

I totally lied up-thread. Shameful.

― s. morris, Monday, 29 October 2007 04:15 (eighteen years ago)

The wounds were too fresh.

― s. morris, Monday, 29 October 2007 04:15 (eighteen years ago)

science sucks.

Anybody know how to tackle that section? It always seems like i have two options:
a) Read the information, answer the questions, which seem ridiculously easy, run out of time with almost half the questions remaining and fill in random bubbles
b) Ignore the information, skip straight to the questions, a little over half make sense 'cause they're just chart reading, but even then, you question yourself because you didn't read the passage and still run out of time (but have less completely guessed questions)

I don't plan on studying science.

― Tape Store, Monday, 29 October 2007 04:16 (eighteen years ago)

Actually, you don't have to answer that question. I'll ask again if my score sucks.

― Tape Store, Monday, 29 October 2007 04:19 (eighteen years ago)

I missed Dan and Donna B's "For Outstanding Negroes" certificates up above - that might be the most insane true thing I've read at ILX.

I took a really perverse pride in not studying for my SATs (and AP tests, and school in general) while all my friends worked hard. It didn't dawn on me for some time that life doesn't give you a bonus for sailing through without effort.

― milo z, Monday, 29 October 2007 04:30 (eighteen years ago)

HAHAHAHA fucking OTM. That was a long, bumpy lesson for me too.

― Abbott, Monday, 29 October 2007 05:00 (eighteen years ago)

in victoria you get an ENTER score (was just TER back in my day), which aggregates major assignments and several exams over the year. (jesus, i'd have had a nervous breakdown if i'd had to cram it all into the one exam. i nearly had one as it was!)

i ended up with 80.2, which is better than 4/5ths of everyone else doing it that year, but I probably should've been better - i didn't score quite as well in the exams (i needed extra time due to my near-sightedness) and i left a lot of the coursework through the year to the last minute. mind you, i was doing A/A+ work; i'll upload my media studies 'horror film' to youtube someday.)

had i sorted out my laziness a bit, i might not have crashed out of university in a screaming heap the next year.

― haitch, Monday, 29 October 2007 05:48 (eighteen years ago)

It didn't dawn on me for some time that life doesn't give you a bonus for sailing through without effort.

yes it does, it's called not having to regret all that wasted effort

― El Tomboto, Monday, 29 October 2007 14:37 (eighteen years ago)

i got a 1370 which was borderline shameful for my snooty prep school. i remember one season on MTV's Real World this douche who got the same score kept bringing it up like it was proof of genius. i fell at home here on ILX because 1370 is apparently borderline shameful.

― wanko ergo sum, Monday, 29 October 2007 14:50 (eighteen years ago)

never read this thread, i got 1370 and a 32

― deej, Monday, 29 October 2007 14:54 (eighteen years ago)

I took a really perverse pride in not studying for my SATs (and AP tests, and school in general) while all my friends worked hard.

John J. and I raced each other to see who could finish each section of the SAT first. I think he beat my score by 20 points (he was way ahead of my in math at that point) but I finished the test first.

― HI DERE, Monday, 29 October 2007 14:56 (eighteen years ago)

i fell at home here on ILX because 1370 is apparently borderline shameful.

Well, thank god we don't have SATs here, or I'd be the resident drooling idiot. :-(

― stevienixed, Monday, 29 October 2007 15:06 (eighteen years ago)

And don't give me that crap that scores don't matter. Or else we wouldn't be comparing'em. We did take some lame IQ test which confirmed my hunch: Good in languages but crap in everything else (maths, logic,...). Or maybe I am just a quiter, I always tend to give up halfway when I'm doing math/logic tests. :-(

― stevienixed, Monday, 29 October 2007 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

i never prepped for the SAT or ACT, taking milo's approach to the whole thing. did alright by it until it came time to study for the MCATs and then it was like wait i have to start studying for a test 5 months ahead of time lolololol what the fuck ever four-eyes where's my beer

― gbx, Monday, 29 October 2007 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

^^^^^ why I never went to grad school

― HI DERE, Monday, 29 October 2007 15:21 (eighteen years ago)

3. Arm wrestling and chest bumping all night at the bar and , only on the internet, and discussing SAT/ACT scores instead

http://www.getpranks.com/images/items/big/fartmachine_big.jpg

― Z S, Monday, 29 October 2007 15:21 (eighteen years ago)

ACT 30. took it once, didn't study.

― gff, Monday, 29 October 2007 15:23 (eighteen years ago)

It didn't dawn on me for some time that life doesn't give you a bonus for sailing through without effort.

yes it does, it's called not having to regret all that wasted effort

-- El Tomboto, Monday, October 29, 2007 10:37 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

― sleep, Monday, 29 October 2007 15:40 (eighteen years ago)

-- HI DERE, Monday, October 29, 2007 2:56 PM (1 hour ago)

hahahahaha yeah, I'd forgotten all about that. we'll just have to call it a draw, I guess.

― John Justen, Monday, 29 October 2007 16:28 (eighteen years ago)

Dan and John, I now want to go back in time and tell you that there is something desperately wrong with the both of you. (I probably did that at the time, though, not even realizing...)

Me: ACT - took it once, got a 29, left it at that

SAT - all I remember is that I did a lot better on the verbal than on the math (unsurprising) and that I stayed up really late the night before at my friend L1s4's house.

I found the ACT a lot easier than the SAT in general.

― Sara R-C, Monday, 29 October 2007 18:09 (eighteen years ago)

i never studied, which became kind of a bummer when i discovered that the GRE had logic sections

― mookieproof, Monday, 29 October 2007 18:12 (eighteen years ago)

28 on ACT. I really should have taken it a second time I guess, but I was/am lazy.
If you graduate from HS in the South and plan on going to run-of-the-mill state school in the same, you really don't have to take the SAT (tho I think I took it in 8th grade for some shits & giggles program). Is that increasingly becoming the case elsewhere? ACT >> SAT?

― will, Monday, 29 October 2007 18:28 (eighteen years ago)

I got a 98 on the ASVAB. 120+ on the DLPT I think. Welcome to the family business.

― El Tomboto, Monday, 29 October 2007 18:29 (eighteen years ago)

I got a 43.7788999 on the FLFNB

― gabbneb, Monday, 29 October 2007 18:33 (eighteen years ago)

Man, how high do you have to score to get the free fart machine?

― Abbott, Monday, 29 October 2007 18:33 (eighteen years ago)

God I had forgotten that I even took the GRE. I must not have done too bad since I got into library school. (?!) I wonder where I have the scores for these tests squirreled away.

― Sara R-C, Monday, 29 October 2007 19:05 (eighteen years ago)

i remember one season on MTV's Real World this douche who got the same score kept bringing it up like it was proof of genius.

did anyone catch the McCarver and Joe Buck making a HUGE deal about Jeff Francis's 1210 SAT, like this qualified him for a MacArthur Fellowship?

― milo z, Monday, 29 October 2007 19:53 (eighteen years ago)

31 ACT

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 29 October 2007 20:58 (eighteen years ago)

but what about the GRE? I have to take that this year and people are telling me I actually have to study for it. Yuck.
-- Maria (silyl_ari...), August 9th, 2006 11:58 PM. (Maria) (later) (link)

...and I didn't study, didn't take the GRE, will not be doing so until next October at the earliest, and am 2 years away from grad school, minimum. Go indecision!

― Maria, Monday, 29 October 2007 21:22 (eighteen years ago)

i never studied, which became kind of a bummer when i discovered that the GRE had logic sections

hahah the same thing happened to me except.. i was like, there's MATH on this thing??? and i got an extra math section too. it sucked. what was the point of that? i was trying to get into humanities grad school. (what was the point of that?)

― daria-g, Monday, 29 October 2007 21:25 (eighteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

I have to get a 2200 on the SAT when I take it on 1 Nov, if I want to get the big bucks tutoring job. This means I have to increase my math score (on a practice test, without any preparations) from 550 to 700.

I am 29 years old.

― Doghouse O RLY (G00blar), Tuesday, 14 October 2008 12:52 (seventeen years ago)

Pray.

― Aimless, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 17:44 (seventeen years ago)

what is the SAT out of these days?

― Jordan, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 17:45 (seventeen years ago)

like, didn't it use to be 1600 total?

― Jordan, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 17:46 (seventeen years ago)

It's 3 parts now isn't it?

xpost -- also what old man Jordan asked

― David R., Tuesday, 14 October 2008 17:47 (seventeen years ago)

It was when I took it.

xpost

― Michael White, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 17:47 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah I think it's 2400 now with a writing section.

I got a 1450 back in the day because one of my useless skills is being good at standardized tests.

― What's good for Wall Street (call all destroyer), Tuesday, 14 October 2008 17:50 (seventeen years ago)

I remember when my 1410 made me feel like hot shit :/

There should add a new section for Common Fucking Sense.

― David R., Tuesday, 14 October 2008 17:50 (seventeen years ago)

ACT was either 27 or 29 (brought down by a 17 in math!).

― ChuckStewart(no relation) (BigLurks), Tuesday, 14 October 2008 17:51 (seventeen years ago)

my verbal score was 670, my math was... less than that

― akm, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 17:53 (seventeen years ago)

i can't believe I remember that

― akm, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 17:53 (seventeen years ago)

I think I got a 30 on the ACT? All I remember was that I got a perfect on the verbal. Took it once, the week before I graduated from HS with a 1.9 GPA. Didn't go to college until I was 26 anyway.

― kate78, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 17:56 (seventeen years ago)

Never bothered with the SAT. Got a 27 on the ACT. Half-assed the whole thing.

I fucking KICKED ASS on the GMAT though.

― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 17:57 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah new SAT is three sections ('critical reading', writing, and math) of 800 each.

― Doghouse O RLY (G00blar), Tuesday, 14 October 2008 17:57 (seventeen years ago)

Got a 33 on the ACT, and a 640V/690M on the SAT, back in 1986. (ugh) Sounds pretty awesome until I tell you that 19-year-old me proceeded to flunk out by his sophomore year of college.

― Dow 30,000 by 2008 (Pancakes Hackman), Tuesday, 14 October 2008 18:00 (seventeen years ago)

no wonder you all support Obama, you damn elitists

― CaptainLorax, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 20:02 (seventeen years ago)

thanks CaptainLorax

― big louie moilolnen (dan m), Tuesday, 14 October 2008 20:03 (seventeen years ago)

xxpost I flunked out sophomore year, too! I'm back now, though, and weirdly pretty good at it this time.

― ChuckStewart(no relation) (BigLurks), Tuesday, 14 October 2008 20:05 (seventeen years ago)

31 on the ACT, never needed to take the SAT for the schools I was applying to. Took one practice test in school, but never studied beyond that.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 20:10 (seventeen years ago)

1560 SAT (old two-part/1600 test), 32 ACT. Had to take both to apply for a math & science high school I then went on to flunk out of in the most embarrassing fashion possible.

― Telephone thing, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 20:28 (seventeen years ago)

Jeez, I was all butthurt 11 months ago for some reason!

― z "R" s (Z S), Tuesday, 14 October 2008 20:47 (seventeen years ago)

I got something like 1360 on the SAT, but who knows, it was so long ago. I got 800v/780m on the GRE.

― Casuistry, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 21:08 (seventeen years ago)

never had to take SAT. I did 28 on the ACT, woulda (shoulda) been better but math dragged me down...

fuckin math.

― flyover statesman (will), Tuesday, 14 October 2008 21:23 (seventeen years ago)

So tutors have to retake SAT's to qualify to be SAT tutors, Gooblar?

it makes sense - I guess it might be hard to get the records from the first time you took'em; also, god knows what's happened in the ensuing years:)

― gary (aimurchie), Wednesday, 15 October 2008 01:27 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah, especially 'cause the test has changed. At first, when the dude asked me to take the test, it struck me as pretty hilarious. But, when you think about it, it does make sense--I have no experience doing this sort of tutoring, so I should show that I can 'tutor myself' well enough to get a good score.

― Doghouse O RLY (G00blar), Wednesday, 15 October 2008 08:55 (seventeen years ago)

5. Although detractors labeled Margaret Thatcher's policies _______, she asserted that her ideas ultimately helped bring about a period of prosperity in the United Kingdom.

― Doghouse O RLY (G00blar), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 10:54 (seventeen years ago)

(A) premature
(B) autocratic
(C) regressive
(D) ingenious
(E) seditious

― Doghouse O RLY (G00blar), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 10:55 (seventeen years ago)

B and C would both fit but I guess C is what they want, since the end of the sentence has to do with the economy

i would have killed on the critical reading section, had it existed when i took it :( i think i made a 1370 total (740 verbal, 630 math)

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 11:12 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah, the 'answer' is C, which I consider a trick to entrap liberal test-takers. Like me, who got it wrong.

― Doghouse O RLY (G00blar), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 11:47 (seventeen years ago)

I got that right but I still have the GRE mindset from earlier in the year.

― Dead Cat Bounce (Ed), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 11:54 (seventeen years ago)

g00blar i tht you said no practice tests? are you CHEATING?

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 12:06 (seventeen years ago)

I think my ACT score was only 24 or something, but I really didn't even try at all.

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 12:22 (seventeen years ago)

Who said no practice tests? Practice tests are the only way I can measure my progress (which is pretty good, btw--I've upped my math score to 670 in about 10 days).

― Doghouse O RLY (G00blar), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 12:35 (seventeen years ago)

oh never mind i misread your first post about this

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 12:44 (seventeen years ago)

760 Verbal, 560 Math. I think they have some new fangled SAT test now. The GREs were way easier for some reason.

― burt_stanton, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 13:35 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah I'm pretty sure the test has changed.

― Doghouse O RLY (G00blar), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 13:41 (seventeen years ago)

Like it's got reading comprehension now OH SNAP.

― Doghouse O RLY (G00blar), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 13:41 (seventeen years ago)

This is no way to spend a life.

― Doghouse O RLY (G00blar), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 13:41 (seventeen years ago)

i scored a jillion

― max, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 13:42 (seventeen years ago)

on both sections

― max, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 13:42 (seventeen years ago)

wow I tied Tracey Hand!

― a shark shall fuck you (wanko ergo sum), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 14:27 (seventeen years ago)

ACT = 28 of score. I thought it was cheating if you studied or practiced, as I thought it was to be a measurement of what you knew at that time.

Four kids my graduating year got 1600s in good ole BFE Idaho.

― Abbott, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 19:03 (seventeen years ago)

i got a 30 on my ACT, never took the SAT

― M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 19:08 (seventeen years ago)

finally people are posting scores higher than mine!

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 19:17 (seventeen years ago)

800 v/800 m/700 weird new writing section (I suck at any sort of timed writing things). and I flunked out before my sophomore year even started.

― Smellishis Poon (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 19:26 (seventeen years ago)

760 Verbal, 560 Math. I think they have some new fangled SAT test now..

If I remember correctly then I got the exact same score and breakdown as Burt. lol

They do have a new test. The year after I took mine they made a lot of changes and the base score increased by 100 but I'm pretty sure they've made even more changes since.

― Lil Nunu (ENBB), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 19:26 (seventeen years ago)

I got a 1050, then I took an SAT prep course and took the SAT again. My score:1050.

― Bill Magill, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 19:28 (seventeen years ago)

took both of them in 1986. i don't remember my ACT. i have the number 32 in my head, but that sounds really high so i don't think that was it. maybe 30? the SAT i had a 1390 (710 math and a 680 verbal). i was annoyed at being 10 points shy of 1400, but not annoyed enough to take it again -- and the state schools i was applying to probably wouldn't have cared anyway. i was a little galled at scoring higher in math than verbal, because i'd already quit taking math courses out of a lack of interest. when my old math teacher saw my score he came and made one last plea to rope me into calculus, like, you know, "you're good at this, you should keep going." i felt like i was turning him down for the prom or something. apart from a statistics class in college, i think the SAT was the last math test i ever took.

― tipsy mothra, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 19:53 (seventeen years ago)

think the SAT was the last math test i ever took

I hoped it would be but that changed when I took the GREs. Thankfully RS who is probably the smartest person I've ever known also turned out to be a great tutor. We crammed for about 10 days and I wound up with a better score on the math part which is just insane for me.

― Lil Nunu (ENBB), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 19:58 (seventeen years ago)

(Not shown: a parallelogram with points A, B, C, and D)

"If AB, BC, CD, and AD are all equal to 4 ..."

What length do you assume AB to be?

― Sir, are you calling 911 to complain about traffic? (G00blar), Sunday, 26 October 2008 11:17 (seventeen years ago)

31 on act

― ○◙i shine cuz i genital grind◙○ (roxymuzak), Sunday, 26 October 2008 17:40 (seventeen years ago)

RONG

― Sir, are you calling 911 to complain about traffic? (G00blar), Sunday, 26 October 2008 17:56 (seventeen years ago)

SAT: 1420: 710 verbal, 710 math (1994)

ACT: 32 (1994)

GRE: 1430: 760 verbal, 670 math (2004)

I can't remember what I got on my GRE writing exam.

There was a fellow a year ahead of me at my high school who got a 1600 on his SAT.

― amateurist, Sunday, 26 October 2008 18:17 (seventeen years ago)

So I learned the equivalent of 10 points in 10 years.

― amateurist, Sunday, 26 October 2008 18:19 (seventeen years ago)

Oddly, I still remember my P-SAT scores as well: 720 verbal, 720 math (1992)

― amateurist, Sunday, 26 October 2008 18:20 (seventeen years ago)

No wait, that would have been 1993.

― amateurist, Sunday, 26 October 2008 18:21 (seventeen years ago)

What were those pointless subject-area tests that everybody took back then called? I remember taking a few of them: in US History, European History, Language & Literature, and Math. No, not the AP exams. I remember I got 770 on the Math exam which was a hilarious fluke.

― amateurist, Sunday, 26 October 2008 18:22 (seventeen years ago)

SAT IIs

― my other son is a zamboni (gbx), Sunday, 26 October 2008 18:25 (seventeen years ago)

SAT scores >> 1600? Why, you wet-eyed whelps, I took the SAT back in the day, in 1972 to be exact, back when the SAT would have broken you all and tossed you aside like so much chaff to the wind. It was bleak, bleak I say.

― Aimless, Sunday, 26 October 2008 18:40 (seventeen years ago)

I'm hoping to get some kind of part-time tutoring gig based on getting a 1540 on the SAT. (Heaven knows I have few enough employable skills that I'll scramble to do what I can with that.) Taking the GRE in three weeks, if I get over 1400 I may be able to tutor toward that too.

One of the people in my house right now got a 1600 on his SAT. We went to college together, but I only learned this a few days ago, when he showed me a really unflattering picture of himself and said "this is from the article the local paper did about 2 of us who got 1600s on the SAT, I think they tried to make us look bad."

― Maria, Sunday, 26 October 2008 18:52 (seventeen years ago)

In my day we were required to form the Unified Field Theory and mix a perfect Manhattan cocktail using only well liquor.

― Aimless, Sunday, 26 October 2008 18:54 (seventeen years ago)

Just got 2320 on practice test. Now will I be able to do that well on Satuday at 8 in the morning after having awoken at 5 to (somehow) get to Uxbridge?

― Sir, are you calling 911 to complain about traffic? (G00blar), Monday, 27 October 2008 17:19 (seventeen years ago)

how do you take a practice version of the writing section? are the standards for grading the essay seriously so mindless that a computer can do it?

― The droid army of the legacy press (bernard snowy), Monday, 27 October 2008 17:23 (seventeen years ago)

Nah, I estimated my score. Gave myself a 5 out of 6--basically even if I don't excel at whatever they're looking for from a high school senior, I know that at the very least my grammar, spelling, essay construction etc will be excellent. fwiw the essay is the part of the test I dread the most, by a longshot.

― Sir, are you calling 911 to complain about traffic? (G00blar), Monday, 27 October 2008 17:29 (seventeen years ago)

I wrote a weird rambling essay about John Cage's "As Slow As Possible" as some sort of allegory for human knowledge and tradition and got 5/12 :(

― The droid army of the legacy press (bernard snowy), Monday, 27 October 2008 17:34 (seventeen years ago)

whoa!

― Sir, are you calling 911 to complain about traffic? (G00blar), Monday, 27 October 2008 17:39 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah all they're apparently looking for is:
1) that you take a position (and all the essay questions are pro/con)
2) intro with clear thesis statement
3) three body paragraphs, each with a supporting example from yr life, or your reading, or history, etc.
4) a conclusion

all this in under ≈350 words

― Sir, are you calling 911 to complain about traffic? (G00blar), Monday, 27 October 2008 17:42 (seventeen years ago)

Makes me want to put a no. 2 pencil through my forehead

― Sir, are you calling 911 to complain about traffic? (G00blar), Monday, 27 October 2008 17:42 (seventeen years ago)

three body paragraphs, each with a supporting example from yr life

omg so basically they are looking for liars with impeccable grammar???

― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Monday, 27 October 2008 17:48 (seventeen years ago)

exactly. The Princeton Review book i've been using to prepare goes out of its way to tell you 'it doesn't matter what you say just as long as you take a position and it's coherent'.

― Sir, are you calling 911 to complain about traffic? (G00blar), Monday, 27 October 2008 17:53 (seventeen years ago)

g00blar tell us the truth, you're applying to write for the National Review

― The droid army of the legacy press (bernard snowy), Monday, 27 October 2008 17:53 (seventeen years ago)

wait I posted that before I saw 'coherent'

― The droid army of the legacy press (bernard snowy), Monday, 27 October 2008 17:54 (seventeen years ago)

Bingo, HI DERE! Genuine writing talent among 18 year olds is too rare to be subjected to an SAT test. Grammar and organization is about as high as it can rise.

― Aimless, Monday, 27 October 2008 17:56 (seventeen years ago)

I don't think there's any possible way I would have gotten less than 800 on the essay part unless I misspelled something.

― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Monday, 27 October 2008 17:56 (seventeen years ago)

It would depend on whether you revealed your sense of humor in all its twisted glory - that might dock you some.

― Aimless, Monday, 27 October 2008 18:02 (seventeen years ago)

Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.

Nowadays nothing is private: our culture has become too confessional and self-expressive. People think that to hide one's thoughts or feelings is to pretend not to have those thoughts or feelings. They assume that honesty requires one to express every inclination and impulse.
Adapted from J. David Velleman, "The Genesis of Shame"

Assignment: Should people make more of an effort to keep some things private? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.

― Sir, are you calling 911 to complain about traffic? (G00blar), Monday, 27 October 2008 18:04 (seventeen years ago)

do you have any idea how difficult most people find writing? organization and grammar really is asking a lot of many teenagers.

― my other son is a zamboni (gbx), Monday, 27 October 2008 18:08 (seventeen years ago)

omg G00b, that would have been a FIELD DAY for me! Basically my problem would have been staying under 350 words.

― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Monday, 27 October 2008 18:09 (seventeen years ago)

I've been finding them very difficult, only because doing well requires a complete negation of pride--I'm also a little concerned about using 'personal examples'...like am I supposed to pretend that I'm 17 and in high school? Or can I mention my wife, my impending child?

― Sir, are you calling 911 to complain about traffic? (G00blar), Monday, 27 October 2008 18:19 (seventeen years ago)

Or you can MAKE SOMETHING UP

― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Monday, 27 October 2008 18:19 (seventeen years ago)

I'm pretty much coming to the conclusion, though, that whoever marks the essay will be reading so fast that it makes no difference whatsoever what you talk about as long as it *looks* like a good essay.

xpost exactly!

― Sir, are you calling 911 to complain about traffic? (G00blar), Monday, 27 October 2008 18:20 (seventeen years ago)

As long as it's consistent to the point you're trying to make, you could say something like "Through experiences in my family, I have decided it is always for the best to keep certain things about yourself private" then start talking about your transvestite uncle.

― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Monday, 27 October 2008 18:21 (seventeen years ago)

rofl

― Sir, are you calling 911 to complain about traffic? (G00blar), Monday, 27 October 2008 18:23 (seventeen years ago)

Yes. Take professional advice on this point. Tranvestite uncles play well, if presented in well-structured sentences that display a sound vocabulary and good control over subordinate clauses.

― Aimless, Monday, 27 October 2008 18:24 (seventeen years ago)

Pets play well, too. Give yourself a menagerie, if the question calls for it.

― Aimless, Monday, 27 October 2008 18:28 (seventeen years ago)

I can now predict with confidence (after doing a number of practice essays) that one of my three 'supporting examples' tomorrow will be Rosa Parks.

― Sir, are you calling 911 to complain about traffic? (G00blar), Friday, 31 October 2008 14:14 (seventeen years ago)

Also, re: yesterday's practice test:

r x r does not equal 2r you fucking idiot

― Sir, are you calling 911 to complain about traffic? (G00blar), Friday, 31 October 2008 14:15 (seventeen years ago)

Apparently, on the GRE, the standards for grading the essay ARE seriously so mindless that a computer can do it. Not kidding.

― Maria, Friday, 31 October 2008 14:19 (seventeen years ago)

Rosa Parks -> +1
9/11 -> +3
Our Founding Fathers -> +4
That time you had to go to the bathroom so bad but you held it for hours -> -12

― Sir, are you calling 911 to complain about traffic? (G00blar), Friday, 31 October 2008 14:22 (seventeen years ago)

two weeks pass...

I find out my score tomorrow. I'm confident I'll be above the 2200 threshold, but I'm a little nervous about my essay, for which I didn't end up using Rosa Parks.

― Manchego Bay (G00blar), Wednesday, 19 November 2008 14:16 (seventeen years ago)

what was the topic?

I've been going through a book to study for the GRE tomorrow, and I'm quite nervous about the essays because I can't practice for them and the practice questions in my book are ridiculous, especially the ones where you have to take a position on a statement they give you. Examples:

"A country's obsession with celebrity always increases when its citizens need a distraction from the harsh realities of war and economic strife." (You want me to just talk out of my ass about that? Because with my 23 years of life experience I can't say I've been carefully observing celebrity trends. I'd feel much more comfortable with some ACTUAL INFORMATION, like statistics to throw around or some information on celebrities in Iraq or somesuch.)

"Scientific theories, which most people consider 'fact,' almost invariably prove to be inaccurate. Thus, one should look up on any information described as 'factual' with skepticism since it may well be proven false in the future." (Clearly this question was written by an idiot. As was the sample essay arguing in favor of it.)

― Maria, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 14:54 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah the essay questions are just soul-sucking in the extreme; I found I had to basically pretend I was someone else and ventriloquize some sort of answer I thought they'd want to read.

Honestly, I can't even remember my essay topic. I had to wake up at 5am, travel for three hours on a freezing cold day (I could see my breath on the tube!) to get there, and the essay was the first part of the test. Hence why I'm worried about its effect on my score.

― Manchego Bay (G00blar), Wednesday, 19 November 2008 15:03 (seventeen years ago)

I made the essay question bit more bearable by taking up the opposite position from what I would normally argue.

― Casuistry, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 15:22 (seventeen years ago)

That sounds pretty grim. I'm going to get to sleep in until about 6:15, lucky me! (xpost)

Isn't the essay scored differently than the rest of the sections, so if you do badly you'll have whatever that number is listed separately from the total out of 1600? That would mean you don't have to worry as much about doing badly, because I can't imagine anyone would value that score over seeing an actual writing sample.

― Maria, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 15:27 (seventeen years ago)

yeah, the score is broken up, but dude told me I need to get a 2200 (out of 2400 total), and I'd rather not have to explain away the essay. (Although at this point, if dude doesn't think a PhD in English can't teach a high schooler how to write a persuasive essay, I don't know why he'd be interested in me in the first place.)

― Manchego Bay (G00blar), Wednesday, 19 November 2008 15:30 (seventeen years ago)

Wait are you taking SAT/GRE for a job application? That's an interesting requirement.

― Maria, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 15:35 (seventeen years ago)

I am hoping to get a job tutoring SAT for a new company/agency. To show that I can teach the SAT, this guy's logic goes, I should be able master it myself.

― Manchego Bay (G00blar), Wednesday, 19 November 2008 15:37 (seventeen years ago)

took mine two or three years ago, got 650V 710M 720W
my essay topic had something to do with teamwork, and all i can really remember writing about terrell owens (the football player) and MacBeth. (I'm an Eagles fan, and it was a hard time!)
my mom beat me on the two basic sections though. she got a 1430 back in the day i believe.

― k3vin k3ll3r (Kevin Keller), Wednesday, 19 November 2008 16:19 (seventeen years ago)

Critical Reading 800
Math 740
Writing 770

aces!

― Manchego Bay (G00blar), Thursday, 20 November 2008 13:53 (seventeen years ago)

Awesome, only 90 points dropped.

― Ed, Thursday, 20 November 2008 13:55 (seventeen years ago)

sweet dude

― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Thursday, 20 November 2008 14:47 (seventeen years ago)

excellent!

on the gre today i got 700 verbal, 780 math, which is the opposite of every practice test i took. weird. i'm happy enough with it, definitely not retaking in december.

― Maria, Thursday, 20 November 2008 18:09 (seventeen years ago)

huh, i didn't need to take the GRE to get into my arty grad school. thank god.

SAT: 800 verbal/720 math . that said, i was one of those little genius kids who took the SATs for the first time when i was 13, and then go scholarships to all sorts of nerdy camps where i studied philosophy and etymology and politics and whatnot. so my score as an 18 year old wasn't that surprising, to me at least.

― the table is the table, Thursday, 20 November 2008 19:27 (seventeen years ago)

braggin

― hyperspace situation (gbx), Thursday, 20 November 2008 19:28 (seventeen years ago)

not really-- it was more because my parents were insane, though not wealthy enough to pay for tutors.

they also didn't realize that the nerdy camps were really just excuses for lots of weird, smart kids to get together and experiment sexually.

― the table is the table, Thursday, 20 November 2008 19:31 (seventeen years ago)

i wish former ilxor Eppy was here to back me up-- he was a counselor of mine. if it weren't for him, i probably would've stayed a hardcore kid until much later. thank god he gave me all those tapes of the Stooges and Big Black.

― the table is the table, Thursday, 20 November 2008 19:34 (seventeen years ago)

whoa!

― Manchego Bay (G00blar), Thursday, 20 November 2008 20:28 (seventeen years ago)

you experimented sexually with him?

― k3vin k3ll3r (Kevin Keller), Thursday, 20 November 2008 21:49 (seventeen years ago)

huh, i didn't need to take the GRE to get into my arty grad school. thank god.
SAT: 800 verbal/720 math . that said, i was one of those little genius kids who took the SATs for the first time when i was 13, and then go scholarships to all sorts of nerdy camps where i studied philosophy and etymology and politics and whatnot. so my score as an 18 year old wasn't that surprising, to me at least.
― the table is the table, Thursday, November 20, 2008 7:27 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

which nerdy camp was this? I was a TIPster, although sadly this did not include any sexual experimentation ;_;

― With a little bit of gold and a Peja (bernard snowy), Thursday, 20 November 2008 21:55 (seventeen years ago)

740V/750M on the old SATs, prior to the 1994 revisions (calculators allowed, etc.). 760V/790M on the GREs.

― Charlie Rose Nylund, Friday, 21 November 2008 06:13 (seventeen years ago)

no, no sexual experimentation with the counselors. and none with former or current ilxors.

anyway, it was CTY, situated at Hamilton College-- beautiful summer in the hills.

he knew i was kinda weird and gay and into weird music, so he just gave me a tape. and it was awesome. mid-to-late 90s college student making tapes for a 13 year old? that's like being an awesome older brother.

― the table is the table, Friday, 21 November 2008 08:10 (seventeen years ago)

and yes, a little weird.

― the table is the table, Friday, 21 November 2008 09:29 (seventeen years ago)

760V/790M on the GREs.

740 V / 800 M

oooh that burns :-(

― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 21 November 2008 16:28 (seventeen years ago)

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