SAT scores

I also believe this is true.

I got:
780 Math
800 Reading
800 Writing

So 1580/1600 and 2380/2400.

My mom wouldn't let me take it again to try and get a 2400, so I had to watch some friends of mine get front page of the newspaper for getting 1600s and I got nothing.


I think I got a 1280 in 7th grade, on the old school SAT (with analogies! *GASP*). Sad thing is, that would've been good enough to get me in to the school I now attend, if the score hadn't expired. Yay for lowering your standards due to being poor.

And going back to the beginning of my post... I get good scores on all standardized, multiple-choice or short essay tests. I took 12 AP tests and got all 5s (now, I studied my ASS OFF on a lot of those, mind you), and I took 3 SAT subject tests and got 780, 790, and 800 (Math II, Chem, and Bio). I was a National Merit Scholar. At some point, I just learned how to "read" multiple choice and narrow it down to two answers without even knowing anything about the question. Everything is made by the College Board, and they always write the same sorts of questions.

I know lots of people worlds smarter than me who got worse scores because they are ESL or just aren't good under pressure.

It really doesn't matter once you start getting to the second two years of undergrad, getting a job, or going to grad school. It's all long-answer questions and it tests more of what you know, not your "reasoning skills". And a lot of what gets you far isn't a test situation at all... You get much farther ahead for internships, research, and long-term projects like that. It's closer to the way the real world works.

[color="#cc8899"]Or are just lazy as hell.
In my case, it tends to be not being able to process my own thoughts easily (where non-memorization is concerned). I can't put my thought process into words to answer questions. For memorization, I simply am not able to memorize something long term without repeating it to the point that it loses meaning anyway. These generally lead to my essays trailing off into random subjects towards the end as my mind goes too far ahead of me.[/COLOR]