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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5810517" data-attributes="member: 19675">Tellin' the truth ain't braggin!<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I've said it before in RL: had I not had a good night's sleep, I'd have scored much lower.  A few different problems, and I'd have scored lower. Just because of higher stress levels.  Instead, I was well-rested, and they gave me problems I was able to answer with little difficulty.(And I went to a high school where I wasn't even in my class' top 50% GPA...but was one of the higher SAT scores in which 75% of us were National Merit finalists.)Lack of sleep cost me a perfect score on my LSATS: they mail you the results with the correct answers and what yours were- the 3 multiple choice answers I missed, I had the correct answers marked as my second choices in the test booklet.   OTOH, I stressed out taking the Texas Bar exam, and had to retake it...more than once.*I was trying to get into a certain graduate program.  To do so, I had to take a particular test.  They called me to notify me of my admission- they had never seen scores that high.But in the end, standardized  tests like that are just a snapshot, and I don't put much credence in their overall accuracy.  (They did, however, ensure I haven't had to pay 1/10th of the cost of my education.)* none of my stress outs were as bad as some of the ones I witnessed, though.  One guy passed out at a table near me, and another started laughing hysterically and turned in his test after 5 minutes.  Which still doesn't compare to some of the stories out of California...</blockquote>

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