Just got my SAT scores!

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

Now how about ASVAB scores?

I scored in the 98th percentile (don't remember the exact score) with absolutely ZERO intention of enlisting (I was, and am, a little too fat and lazy for service). My mother made me take it.

They wanted to hook me up with Military Intelligence, and in retrospect, that would have been kinda cushy. I had a high school buddy that went into Marine Intelligence, and I think he just sits around in an Indonesian villa all day listening to radio broadcasts or something.

Fun fact: The Army recruiter who harassed me for two years after the test sounded EXACTLY like Gomer Pyle. I'd have paid good money to hear him say "Shazam".

 

[Mercule]

Now how about ASVAB scores?

I got a 97, IIRC. Army wanted to put me into Linguistics/Intelligence.

This was during Desert Storm, though. Funny thing is that I was ready to go, but the recruiter talked me out of it. Weird. He chased me for 3 months then, when the war started, kept saying things that soured me.

Wish I'd done it, though. I probably would've been in Monterey the whole war, anyway. But, I do love languages and codes. I just never have time to study them -- or someplace to practice.

 

[Zander]

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...

I suspect that gamers score higher than average. My own SAT score, when coverted to the post '95 standard, is about the same as RW's. And that was without the benefit of having been in the North American educational system.

One of my friends and fellow gamer when I was an undergrad had scored 1600 in his SAT - when he was 15.

 

[Krieg]

My AFQT was 99 on the ASVAB, and actually did serve in the intelligence field (SIGINT/EW to be precise) in the Marines. lol


Ironically enough my original contract was for the Security Forces (Marine Security Guards = MarDets on ships, FAST Co etc) but was given the soft sell for the SIGINT community while at Parris Island and decided to switch.

 

[DM_Matt]

2x post

 

[DM_Matt]

dfvdfs

 

[Mercule]

I suspect that gamers score higher than average. My own SAT score, when coverted to the post '95 standard, is about the same as RW's. And that was without the benefit of having been in the North American educational system.

You're assuming the NA system is a benefit.

As far as gamers go, personal experience makes me want to agree with you. I'm pretty sure I'm at the top of my current group, IQ-wise, but everyone is probably above average. My bets are one at 160 (me), one at 135, three in the 125 area and one at the 115 range. That last, though, I wouldn't be surprised to find out was smarter than she appears. She's a mechanic, and I learned a long time ago that a good mechanic is usually much smarter than they seem(my dad was a mechanic).

In college, there was another guy who I'm sure was in the same area as me, and another that is almost certainly a bit above me.

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

No need to worry about stealing my thunder, I know I'm not the very smartest guy around Wickett and DM_Matt? Congrats. I'm just hoping I do well in college.

EDIT: I don't know about the NA system, I'm home skooled

 

[Zander]

You're assuming the NA system is a benefit.

I realise you meant that humorously, but when it comes to taking the SAT the NA system does help. Before I took the SAT, I had never sat a multiple choice test. All the exams I had taken up to that point were short answer or essay format.

After having been at college in the US for a couple of years, I took a multiple choice exam for a summer job. The test was on a subject I knew nothing about (Australian Aboriginal culture). Thanks to my two years' experience of multiple choice tests at university, I scored quite well (quite a bit higher than the average for white Australians).

It seems that just having experience of the test format would help someone taking the SAT.

 

[Trickstergod]

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?

Might just be because those who scored lower, aren't too willing to share their scores. There's a fair share of intellectual types amongst gamers, but both real life and on-line, I've found there's also a fair share of less than intelligent sorts...

Anyway, I nabbed myself a 1330. 760 Verbal, 570 Math.

Which, by conversion, puts me at a 1260. 700 Verbal, 560 Math.

I'm fairly certain I'd score better on the mathematics now, though. However, the test's been changed yet again, and now includes the SAT II Writing portion of the test in place of analogies, I'm not so keen on retaking it. There's the cost, for one, and also the fact that I took the SAT II Writing test and only scored so-so (don't remember specifically how well I did, unfortunately).

I'll live.