SAT Scores are Out

[The Yankee]

Yankee, Bronx Science doesn't.

Individ. schools, I see. I didn't go there because the commute would probably take longer than the school day.

Yeah, you kids and your silly 2400 point SAT without analogies. Bah!

Why'd they take them out anyway? It's the thing that seems to torture students the most.

 

[general_kill]

Individ. schools, I see. I didn't go there because the commute would probably take longer than the school day.

Why'd they take them out anyway? It's the thing that seems to torture students the most.

What did you get on your specialized high school test?

They took anaogies out because they felt that it wasn't testing a skill that they were trying to test.

They also took out the "Compare A and B" part of the math section.

 

[The Yankee]

I don't remember anymore (entered HS in 1999, so I took the test either late 1998 or early 1999, whenever they do those things) but it was enough for Bronx Science and Brooklyn Tech.

Seems odd that they would take out those sections. What's wrong in testing that people know the relationship between two words or two quantities?

 

[amadeus]

I never took the SAT, I took the ACT.

 

[shortguy]

Why'd they take them out anyway? It's the thing that seems to torture students the most.

That's why they took them out. I guess they got tired of people whining about it.

 

[Warman17]

Critical Reading 710
Math 660
Writing 570


Total: 1940

 

[Warman17]

Yeah, you kids and your silly 2400 point SAT without analogies. Bah!

silliness is to the new SAT as your jealousy is to us not doing analogies.

>_>

 

[Spartan117]

I never took the SAT, I took the ACT.

same here...

 

[shortguy]

silliness is to the new SAT as your jealousy is to us not doing analogies.

>_>

Umm....? I don't get it.

 

[RameNoodle]

In eighth grade, I got a 1600 on the very first day they gave writing!!! Which I thought was pretty good. Some come junior/senior year, I think that I'll be able to get around 2100.

 

[Snow]

For those who took both, which is harder the SAT or the ACT? Which has more time constricted sections?

I'm taking the ACT for a second time in june. I only got a 24 the first time I took it. I completely underestimated the difficulty of the math and science sections and only started studying for them 3 days before the test. I did pretty well on the reading and english sections but that math in particular overwhelmed me. I started running out of time and had to guess on about 12 questions. I want to get about a 27-29.

You could do what I did and get in really good with a teacher who will write you an amazing recommendation. That's how I got into Notre Dame.

Recommendations have that much clout with the admissions people? That's good to know, I guess I'll have some butt-kissing to do my senior year.

 

[BCLG100]

is it like a giant IQ test?

 

[jamiethearcher]

I didn't have to write the SAT because I went to a Canadian University- HAHA!

On the other hand, i did have to write the LSAT to get into law school, which, from talking to people who wrote both, is about a billion times more difficult.

I scored in the 73rd Percentile on the LSAT.

 

[Cuivienen]

is it like a giant IQ test?

No, it's more of a basics skills test. Write an essay, do some simple algebra and geometry, answer questions about some passages, that sort of thing.

 

[BCLG100]

No, it's more of a basics skills test. Write an essay, do some simple algebra and geometry, answer questions about some passages, that sort of thing.

oh ok, how come one guy in the first post had like 1000 point difference to some people below him? is he waaaaay more basically skilled?

 

[Cuivienen]

oh ok, how come one guy in the first post had like 1000 point difference to some people below him? is he waaaaay more basically skilled?

First off, scores are always in increments of 10, so the difference isn't as great.

Secondly, in 2005, they changed the test from a two-section test to a three-section test. Each section is 800 points, so the old test had a total of 1600 but the new test has a total of 2400 possible points.

Scores are sometimes written as a total, sometimes as (for example) 800M-800V-800W [Math-Verbal-Writing], so that might make a difference in how someone displays their score.

Edit: general kill's score is 2010/2400 while Cheezy the Wiz's score is 1210/1600. That's why they look so different. 1210 used to be an okay score, but on the new test it would be terrible.

 

[CIVPhilzilla]

Took them in April, got an 1880 first run, 1310 for the old scale. Taking them again this Saturday and aiming for a 1400+ on the old scale, don't care as much about the new considering colleges don't look at it.

 

[BCLG100]

First off, scores are always in increments of 10, so the difference isn't as great.

Secondly, in 2005, they changed the test from a two-section test to a three-section test. Each section is 800 points, so the old test had a total of 1600 but the new test has a total of 2400 possible points.

Scores are sometimes written as a total, sometimes as (for example) 800M-800V-800W [Math-Verbal-Writing], so that might make a difference in how someone displays their score.

Edit: general kill's score is 2010/2400 while Cheezy the Wiz's score is 1210/1600. That's why they look so different. 1210 used to be an okay score, but on the new test it would be terrible.

oh right ok, so does it go down in your uni application thing then?

 

[Cuivienen]

oh right ok, so does it go down in your uni application thing then?

Most colleges require either the SAT or the ACT (which is a similar but less popular test). Most colleges also require at least two SAT IIs, which are separate tests focusing on a single subject (Chemistry, Spanish, World History, etc.). You choose what subject. Writing was an SAT II test before it was included in the SAT last year.

 

[Neomega]

when I took the test in 1994, the top score was 1500.

When did it change to 1600?