SAT Exam or test or whatever

Acebot44 · 10-30-2004, 05:18 PM

I've only taken the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test and the SAT II Writing.

I got a 620 in writing, but it was incredibly easy. The only reason I got in the 600's is because I hadn't written an essay in about 4 months before the test. The mulitple choice was just basic grammar and sentence structure. I took it as practice for the new SAT's this year. The analogies will be removed and an essay will be added to the english portion. I believe Math is just Algebra I/II and Geometry in the SAT I.

The SAT I is English and Math. The SAT II's are specialized subjects like Chemistry, U.S. History, Calculus (or advanced math or some ****), and etc. The New SAT will be broken into three parts, each worth 800 points. Math, English, and the Essay. I had a booklet describing the scoring system and GPA requirements for admition to some colleges but I can't find it right now.

I believe I got about one and a half hours for the SAT II writing and the same is for the other subjects. Don't know about the SAT I though...I didnt have enough time to finish all of my essay though--had a paragraph left to write.

I didn't study.

I guess you can ask your college counslor for information on how to take the PSAT or old SAT tests. Not sure though

Dyne · 10-30-2004, 05:51 PM

My grade 11 English teacher got the second highest mark in California back when she took it in high school. It was two points off of being perfect.

The Germanator · 10-30-2004, 05:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Dyne

My grade 11 English teacher got the second highest mark in California back when she took it in high school. It was two points off of being perfect.

What do you mean by two points? The SAT is scored in numbers ending in zero, so you couldn't possibly get a 1598...You could get a 1580 or 1590, but that's a little different. Thousands get perfect scores of 1600, so not getting a 1600 would probably get you about 100th place in the state or something...*shrug*

Dyne · 10-30-2004, 06:15 PM

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Originally Posted by The Germanator

What do you mean by two points? The SAT is scored in numbers ending in zero, so you couldn't possibly get a 1598...You could get a 1580 or 1590, but that's a little different. Thousands get perfect scores of 1600, so not getting a 1600 would probably get you about 100th place in the state or something...*shrug*

Two somethings off. Must have been 1580. I don't know much about SATs.

Neo · 10-30-2004, 06:22 PM

1340

31 ACT

Jason1 · 10-30-2004, 09:53 PM

Ive never taken the SAT because there's no need to for most kids here in the midwest, the schools around here only want the ACT.

I took the ACT once and only once, and I got a solid 25.

Stonecutter · 10-30-2004, 10:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Jason1

Ive never taken the SAT because there's no need to for most kids here in the midwest, the schools around here only want the ACT.

I took the ACT once and only once, and I got a solid 25.

Ditto

29 first attempt

28 second attempt, hung over, no calculator.

'Course I then decided to go to a media/fine arts school with an open admissions policy so it's pretty much irrelevant.

Null · 10-30-2004, 10:55 PM

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Originally Posted by The Germanator

What do you mean by two points? The SAT is scored in numbers ending in zero, so you couldn't possibly get a 1598...You could get a 1580 or 1590, but that's a little different. Thousands get perfect scores of 1600, so not getting a 1600 would probably get you about 100th place in the state or something...*shrug*

well he said back when she took it. that coulda been the first ever version of the test. and before they added the silly 0 at the end to make people feel better with thier scores.

so she coulda just scored 158.

ZebraRampage · 10-30-2004, 11:15 PM

My highest score on the SATs was an 1190, and my highest combined score, because I took the test three times, was a 1200. I'd say that the verbal was a lot tougher. The highest I scored on the verbal between all three tests was 550, and the highest I scored on the math was 650. I think I'd rank the math as being 4/10 for difficulty, and the I'd give the verbal a 6 or 7 out of 10.

Xantar · 10-31-2004, 03:05 AM

I got 1580. I suppose that seems high until you consider that about a third of my peers here at Swarthmore College got perfect 1600.

I had 780 on Math and 800 on Verbal. At the time, I was a much more left-brained person than I am now. However, I scored lower on Math because you are allowed fewer mistakes before getting a less than perfect score. I may have made just as many mistakes in both sections, but I would have gotten a lower score in Math for it. I think that Verbal is harder than Math just because the answers can sometimes seem rather arbitrary. I especially disliked reading comprehension questions because they were often tied to passages that were honestly pretty poorly written.

I believe the SAT IIs I used for college were Math 2c, Chemistry and Latin. I'm not positive about those, though. Whatever they were, I got somewhere in the 700s for all of them.

I took no prep course for the exams whatsoever. In my opinion, they are a waste of time and money. You'd be much better off just buying a book and studying from it. As for the SAT IIs, the best preparation you can get is AP courses if they are available at your high school. Obviously, it all worked well enough for me.