Just got my SAT scores!

[Heretic Apostate]

Did anyone take the Achievement Tests? Not as common as the ACT and the SAT, but it was offered when I was a kid.

I did great on the math, of course (a 790), okay on the English, but I absolutely flunked Chemistry, even having taken honors chemistry in high school. (I went on to take Chemistry-for-Science-Majors at college, and score in the top 10%--at least, on the analysis side; luckily I had a good lab partner...).

Just looked at my scores if I had taken the "new" SAT: 1400. Still not great (you should see my sister's scores--National Merit Scholarship semi-finalist), but decent...

 

[Mercule]

FWIW Mine: SAT=1370 ACT=34

I don't place too much faith in my ACT score. I got a 29, but I was up all the previous night with the flu, vomitting my guts out. I was so sick/tired that I passed out, face down on the desk during one of the sections.

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

Hey, according to that conversion page, my 1994 score of 1340 is now a 1400! I feel 60 points smarter already.

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

I knew about the "dumbing down" of the SAT, but it's still pretty darn cool I tend to test somewhat better than I do long-range courses.

 

[Desdichado]

I don't place too much faith in my ACT score. I got a 29, but I was up all the previous night with the flu, vomitting my guts out. I was so sick/tired that I passed out, face down on the desk during one of the sections.

For whatever reason, I always felt I did better on the ACT than the SAT, where I was disappointed with my score. But no so much that I retook it, of course.

I don't even have the faintest idea anymore of what I got on the GMAT, though.

 

[RangerWickett]

Perhaps out of worry of stealing John Q. Mayhem's thunder, I didn't want to post my score on the SAT (1540, as of 1999). But enough people got this off topic, I overcame my fear of being seen as bragging.

I just graduated from college, nowhere near the top of my class, but that's because I spent time writing D&D books when I could've been studying Japanese. I swear, that language did more to mess with my GPA than anything else.

Got a 1600 on the PSAT.

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

I got a 1410!

Cool! Congrats!

I got a 1380 when I took the test back in 1989, but I don't know what that translates to on the conversion page, because I don't remember what I got on the individual sections.

What I do remember is that for that offering of the test, I got the highest score in the Jr. class that year. I beat out all the honor society kids who picked on me because I was the lone metalhead in all the advanced classes, who wanted nothing to do with their clique and their preppy clothes. For some reason, the school principal thought it was a good thing to announce the top 3 scores over the PA with the morning announcements. There was my name, 80 points higher than the other two. I was furious ( and embarrased for some reason) that he thought it was a good thing to tell 2500 students what my supposedly confidential scores were without my permission.

 

[Dimwhit]

That's an impressive score. I never did take the SAT. Or the ACT (or whatever that other one is). But I doubt seriously I would have scored that well.

 

[Krieg]

Has anyone noticed that almost all of the scores posted so far fall in the 1300-1400's? (Well except for Wickett but we all know he's a freak. ) I find that interesting...


Now how about ASVAB scores?

 

[Heretic Apostate]

I did well enough on the ASVABs that the Navy wanted my flabby behind to be at the controls of one of their nuclear reactors on their subs.

Yeah, that would have been good: Someone with my memory, in charge of something as dangerous as a nuclear reactor.

"Did you remember to insert the control rods?"

"Dang, I knew I was forgetting something!"

KA-BOOM!!!!