Just got my SAT scores!

[Kalendraf]

I took the SAT in 1985 managing to get a perfect 800 on the math, but only 570 on the verbal. According to that revised chart someone posted the link for, my 570 verbal would now translate to 640. That's huge.

I was 3rd in my high school class, and IIRC, both folks that beat me were in the low to mid 1400's. Both were very high on verbal, lower on math, so under that revised scale, my score would likely be almost neck'n'neck with them. Kind of pisses me off that they didn't update this back when I took it.

 

[Mercule]

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

Quite. I figured multiple guess was a universal thing.

 

[The Sigil]

Hmm... I took the test in 1993 and landed myself a 1440; 770 math and 670 verbal. Nowadays, it looks like that would be 790 math and 730 verbal (for a total of 1520). I scored a 34 on the ACT.

Graduated 2nd in my HS class (behind a guy who took fewer overall classes so his "AP" classes boosted his GPA to mere percentage points ahead of mine, despite the fact that I took more total AP classes and units than he did)... and took & passed 7 AP tests. 'Course, I was also taking college classes at Cal-Irvine in Calculus and Physics my senior year in HS (having taken senior physics as a sophomore in HS). The really hilarious thing was that even though I was studying science & math at very high levels (college-level stuff in high school), I wound up winning my high school's "outstanding liberal arts student" award as a graduating senior. I had to laugh at that one.

All of this was nice, I guess, when it got me a full ride through college. I didn't really think much else of it at the time... but when I got married right before graduation, I was darn glad I wasn't saddled with student loans.

--The Sigil

 

[Dogbrain]

Um it's a little bit better than "respectable" it puts him in the 99th percentile.

Of course it's really a 1310 to all of us who took it before the early 90's.

So what does that make a 1480 from 1984 in the modern, devalued test?


Oh, never mind, I found the chart. I'd be a 1520 in modern currency. My math skills were totally stinkeroo--a mere 720 in either scoring.

 

[Dogbrain]

Now how about ASVAB scores?

99th percentile, all areas, forget flat scores. Got a Freedom of Choice grant from the state of Indiana for a private college and told the recruiter that I wasn't interested. The Marines kept calling my parents home up to my senior year of college.

 

[JPL]

720 verbal, 680 math, circa 1991.

So...790 / 670 in modern terms.

But brains are genetic...good character, that's what I respect. Gotta get that the hard way.

 

[comrade raoul]

Congrats to Mr. Mayhem! (And good luck with your college process! Do you know where you're thinking of applying?)

But brains are genetic...good character, that's what I respect. Gotta get that the hard way.

It's rather a technicality, but I think the concensus opinion is that one's SAT score is only very loosely related to one's overall intelligence (presuming that there even is such a thing, which may be rather suspect).

 

[Macbeth]

Congrats, John Q.! Your scores remind me of my own, from just over a year ago: 1480, with a perfect verbal score. I tend to look better based on standardized test scores then my grades would suggest. Between that and my AP scores, I should be breezing through a Liberal arts college, instead I'm at a Tech school barely getting by in Calc I and II. But, dang, are the arts classes easy at a Tech school.

Good luck! With scores like that you should be able to get a good schlarship. Where are you planning on going to college?

 

[Kaleon Moonshae]

I got a 1200 or so on mine taken two or three years ago(799 speach/writing, rest was math). But then again, I test horribly, and suck at non-applied math. From what I've seen, however, it really isn't much of an indication of anything, except how much less you're going to have to pay when you attend college.

It's frustrating that our educational system places so much time and importance on these things when they could spend that money on books that don't still show that man has yet to reach the moon, or on refurbishing school restrooms so they aren't health risks. Honestly, all of the brightest people I've ever met have gotten 1100's and below, and go on to be wondrous successes, in contrast to a good number of 1500 achievers I know who can't keep a steady job. I guess the lesson to learn from these failures is that you shouldn't let it go to your head. It's just a number which gets you a bit of cash if it's high enough, nothing more.

Unless you get a perfect score, which means you're damned smart.

I agree, my school's gifted program had me focus on my ACT cause that was the standard Oklahoma used, I took it like 16 times (I enjoyed taking it and it got me out of school) from 8th grade on. In contrast I only took the SAT once and made enough to get the national merits...right before they changed the scoring structure. I was the last class and they decided to have the new score count against us so I ended up losing the scholarship by a few points. I was not happy, especially since I took it right before I graduated and didn't have a chance to go back and take it again.

Congrats on your score, that's very respectable and welcome to the 99th%, you are now officially one of us geeks.

 

[Len]

I got a 1410!

I don't know what these SAT numbers mean. A proper scoring system would have six separate stats.