Standardized Testing

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Originally Posted by IronPlant

If you want into MIT, go to another nice tech school and make All A's for a year. They should let you in then. At leat, that works for most schools who won't take you because of low ACT scores.

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Nah, I want to go to either BC or NYU.

I got a 1350. I forget the exact breakdown, I think it was 650 on math and 700 on verbal.

I actually think the SAT is one of the few tests that is an accurate measure of one's reasoning ability (which is the purpose of the test, I believe).

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Originally Posted by Stone

I know some people with perfect scores who never had the personality they needed to succeed.

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Of course not, but the test was never meant as a direct measure of one's ability to succeed in life, nor anything regarding personality.

If you just take the test for what it is, there's not much wrong with it.

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Originally Posted by Nick

Amen, my elitist brother. I completely agree.

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Damn Commies

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Originally Posted by OmniGear

I got a 1350. I forget the exact breakdown, I think it was 650 on math and 700 on verbal.

I actually think the SAT is one of the few tests that is an accurate measure of one's reasoning ability (which is the purpose of the test, I believe).



Of course not, but the test was never meant as a direct measure of one's ability to succeed in life, nor anything regarding personality.

If you just take the test for what it is, there's not much wrong with it.

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I don't know about that. I'm not sure about the SAT, but the ACT does take time into account. Taking time into account screws shit up. Why? Becuase there is a difference in the speed of thought, and the power(think torque) of thought. At a certain point you have to have trade offs between the two, due to the limitations of the human brain, or any physical matter.

The shorter the distance between parts of the brain the faster you think. BUT, the bigger the brain and the more complex, the bigger the concepts your brain can handle. One counter acts the other. Complexity and size increase distance between things, which in turn decreases "wit".

If you wish to read more, check out Steven Hawkings The Universe in a Nutshell, mainly chapter 6.

I got about a 1070 when I took the SAT.

And just as a quick tip for anyone that can take advantage of it.

Make sure to take the PSAT your 11th grade year. If you do well on it then, it opens up some scholarships that you wouldn't be elegible for any other way.

When I took the SAT, I'd already been in college for two years (I was just about to transfer to an American school). I got perfect in verbal, and I don't remember my math score but it was up in the 99th percentile somewhere. I didn't study for it at all - just looked up some "sample questions" on the internet and they seemed easy enough.

In the end, I ended up going to a community college first so I didn't even have to write the thing in the first place.

This test is a joke. What kind of crackpot cooked up the thing anyways? I fail to see how it's supposed to test anyone's intelligence properly and I'm happy most countries don't bother with standardized tests.

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Originally Posted by Matt

When I took the SAT, I'd already been in college for two years (I was just about to transfer to an American school). I got perfect in verbal, and I don't remember my math score but it was up in the 99th percentile somewhere. I didn't study for it at all - just looked up some "sample questions" on the internet and they seemed easy enough.

In the end, I ended up going to a community college first so I didn't even have to write the thing in the first place.

This test is a joke. What kind of crackpot cooked up the thing anyways? I fail to see how it's supposed to test anyone's intelligence properly and I'm happy most countries don't bother with standardized tests.

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becaue remembering that (a^2) + (b^2) = (c^2) and how to use grammar equates all intelligence, duh. God, no wonder America has all the smart people of the world.

all i have to say is that u people who dont live in texas and are in high school . cause i have to take the takks. it was tass but they made it harder. and i have to pass all 4 tests to graduate.(and atleast there was not a spelling part to it or else i would never graduate)

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Originally Posted by BoBVila

800 math, 670 verbal...it's the only one of the big 3 HS tests (well, SAT2 is a ton of em) I took.

Standardized tests are a joke.

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I got the EXACT SAME THING! No joke. Seriously.

Weird.

Do you remember what I said Sunday? Yeah.

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Originally Posted by IronPlant

becaue remembering that (a^2) + (b^2) = (c^2) and how to use grammar equates all intelligence, duh. God, no wonder America has all the smart people of the world.

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Indeed! Obviously we are brilliant leaders among men, destined to guide this gentle azure globe forward into a glowing future, because we know such gems of wisdom as:

"out of these four items (dog, cat, spoon, octopus) the spoon is different"