This thread has a wonderful tendency to pop up every now and then. . . .
Anyway, I got 800M, 750V. To tell you the truth, a lot of verbal comes down to luck. One of my friends got the score letter, and came in the next day, not jokingly, exclaiming "I did so good in verbal, I got an 800." Likewise, I know a lot of folks with immaculate verbal ability and precision who didn't get 800. If you luck out and happen to know all the words, you rock. Most times they'll slip one or two past even the best vocabs.
As for the 1600, a lot of it is luck as well, but regardless you're not going to encounter someone who gets a 1400 once and then a 1600 2 months later. That's when the ETS mounts a investigation to determine whether or not you cheated. Anybody who gets a 1600 is going to do quite well even when he is unlucky.
Furthermore:
Tip for verbal - know the vocab as much as you can. If you can steamroll through the fill-in-the-blanks and the analogies in 5 to 10 minutes, that gives you plenty of time to read the passages, which helps a lot. Tip for math - um, be good at math. (sorry)
780 verbal, 760 math. This was the first year they used a recentered scoring table, so I actually got two questions wrong on each section, but because the verbal scores got recentered up higher than math, those two questions were worth only 20 points instead of the 40 they were worth on math.
I should have been annoyed because I actually did better on the PSAT the year before, 760V/800M. Though it was an improvement on my CTY 1100, thankfully. I only started getting dumber after high school, not during.
I said this in the other thread: the foolproof strategy for acing the SAT Verbal is READ! Read because you love to do it - hardly even matters what (we're not necessarily talking Chaucer and Tolstoy here). As a side benefit, that love of reading will continue to benefit you for the rest of your life, while all those flash cards will flash out of your head the moment you leave the test room.
Oh yeah, when I took the SATs in 7th grade, that was before the current recentering scheme, so it probably would have been equivalent to 12-something today.
Looks like they're rolling in SAT II: Writing and Math IIC style questions into it, complete with an essay section. I wish I coulda taken the new version instead...
<strong>Oh yeah, when I took the SATs in 7th grade, that was before the current recentering scheme, so it probably would have been equivalent to 12-something today.
Looks like they're rolling in SAT II: Writing and Math IIC style questions into it, complete with an essay section. I wish I coulda taken the new version instead...</strong><hr></blockquote>
What does an SAT look like? Multiple guess?
I bet no one even marks the essay section, the logistics of that seem frightening.
So it was a bit hurmorous when folks in college gave me shit like, "Ed, you're here because of affirmative action" or "you're taking the spot of a qualified *white* person." Eh, it's a shame.
We use the grades we get in (what is equiliant to) high school to determine which colleges we can be accepted to.
Our grades go from 00 up to 13 but it is not linear at all. The large majority have grades in the 7,0-9,0 area.
My total score was 11,0 and it gave me access to virtually all kind of further education here. Only 27 out of 23.800 had a score of 11,0 or above the year I graduated (1998)
So it was a bit hurmorous when folks in college gave me shit like, "Ed, you're here because of affirmative action" or "you're taking the spot of a qualified *white* person." Eh, it's a shame.</strong><hr></blockquote>
That reminds me of a guy I knew when I was an undergrad. He got into a graduate program at UVA (among others). He called up the head of the program to make sure they were accepting him because he was most qualified and not because he was black.
Does that make me tops in the thread so far? Not that it matters. I actually agree with all those who say that the SAT was kinda pointless. Now, AP scores on the other hand...
1490 or so I think. The highest in my incoming college class. I don't remember the split, nor do I really care. I did not study for it, and I finished before everyone else because I take tests fast so I can get on to something else. Did better on the verbal than on the math. Did not matter to me, my GPA was enough to get me into whatever college I cared to attend. 3.85.
Oh and Groverat, I hated homework too. Usually finished it up the morning of class.
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<strong>Fie on grades and scores!</strong><hr></blockquote>
Amen to that brother.
Anyway, I got 800M, 750V. To tell you the truth, a lot of verbal comes down to luck. One of my friends got the score letter, and came in the next day, not jokingly, exclaiming "I did so good in verbal, I got an 800." Likewise, I know a lot of folks with immaculate verbal ability and precision who didn't get 800. If you luck out and happen to know all the words, you rock. Most times they'll slip one or two past even the best vocabs.
As for the 1600, a lot of it is luck as well, but regardless you're not going to encounter someone who gets a 1400 once and then a 1600 2 months later. That's when the ETS mounts a investigation to determine whether or not you cheated. Anybody who gets a 1600 is going to do quite well even when he is unlucky.
Furthermore:
Tip for verbal - know the vocab as much as you can. If you can steamroll through the fill-in-the-blanks and the analogies in 5 to 10 minutes, that gives you plenty of time to read the passages, which helps a lot. Tip for math - um, be good at math. (sorry)
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I should have been annoyed because I actually did better on the PSAT the year before, 760V/800M. Though it was an improvement on my CTY 1100, thankfully. I only started getting dumber after high school, not during.
I said this in the other thread: the foolproof strategy for acing the SAT Verbal is READ! Read because you love to do it - hardly even matters what (we're not necessarily talking Chaucer and Tolstoy here). As a side benefit, that love of reading will continue to benefit you for the rest of your life, while all those flash cards will flash out of your head the moment you leave the test room.
Did you hear the SATs are changing in two years?
<a href="http://www.collegeboard.com/about/newsat/newsat.html"; target="_blank">http://www.collegeboard.com/about/newsat/newsat.html</a>;
Looks like they're rolling in SAT II: Writing and Math IIC style questions into it, complete with an essay section.
What's the mean, median, etc.?
And what's all this about taking it more than once?
I suppose it is because once I was in college no one ever asked me about them again.
I remember reading something about them recentering the SAT a few years ago. What was that and how did it affect the scoring?
Nick
<strong>Oh yeah, when I took the SATs in 7th grade, that was before the current recentering scheme, so it probably would have been equivalent to 12-something today.
Did you hear the SATs are changing in two years?
<a href="http://www.collegeboard.com/about/newsat/newsat.html"; target="_blank">http://www.collegeboard.com/about/newsat/newsat.html</a>;
Looks like they're rolling in SAT II: Writing and Math IIC style questions into it, complete with an essay section.
What does an SAT look like? Multiple guess?
I bet no one even marks the essay section, the logistics of that seem frightening.
It sounds like todays SAT is a joke. Oh we can't even test antonyms... poor kids won't know what the opposite of something is going to be....
Soon it isn't going to be an aptitude test, just an achievement test....
Oh well.... I guess the dumbing down of our schools is complete.
Nick
But can you guys put your scores after your name <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[oyvey]" />
Scott Ph.D.
So it was a bit hurmorous when folks in college gave me shit like, "Ed, you're here because of affirmative action" or "you're taking the spot of a qualified *white* person." Eh, it's a shame.
Our grades go from 00 up to 13 but it is not linear at all. The large majority have grades in the 7,0-9,0 area.
My total score was 11,0 and it gave me access to virtually all kind of further education here. Only 27 out of 23.800 had a score of 11,0 or above the year I graduated (1998)
<strong>I'm even-handed -> 750M/750V
So it was a bit hurmorous when folks in college gave me shit like, "Ed, you're here because of affirmative action" or "you're taking the spot of a qualified *white* person." Eh, it's a shame.</strong><hr></blockquote>
That reminds me of a guy I knew when I was an undergrad. He got into a graduate program at UVA (among others). He called up the head of the program to make sure they were accepting him because he was most qualified and not because he was black.
[ 01-27-2003: Message edited by: Scott ]</p>
SAT is watered down anyway nowadays.
SAT II
Writing: 790
French: 740
US Hist: 770
600 v
450 m
math was never my thing. might have done better on the verbal part if i cared to take it again. what a waste of my time.
Does that make me tops in the thread so far? Not that it matters. I actually agree with all those who say that the SAT was kinda pointless. Now, AP scores on the other hand...
Oh and Groverat, I hated homework too. Usually finished it up the morning of class.
[ 01-27-2003: Message edited by: murbot ]</p>