SAT, ACT, etc.

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So anybody gonna be standardize-testing soon or took one this year?


I'm gonna take the SAT this Saturday May 7th. I'm looking forward to it cause based on some of the practice tests I've been taking I'm projected to do pretty good. Many people aim for 1500 but I'm gonna overambitiously aim for about 1800. Writing is really easy and Math is a good subject for me. Reading is my huge weakpoint (and Science but no Science on the SAT 8)) but I've been working to improve on it.
 
I have to take it May 7th as well.

I did the pre-SAT last year and it went really really well. But, knowing my luck, they probably printed out a wicked harder version of it for the actual test. :p
 
I got a 1270 w/o the writing section (which doesn't mean shit, colleges don't care about it) on the SAT. With writing I think I got 1910. That was on my first time taking it. I took it again but was sick during it & got a worse score & don't even remember what it was. Never bothered with all that test prep crap.

And taking it in the spring is supposedly easier than the fall from what I've heard. Well maybe not "easier", but people tend to do better.
 
^ Glad to know that there isn't a system that cares about your education... maybe.

Took the aptitude test in late 09 and subject tests in mid 2010. I don't recall my scores but I can check them up.

EDIT: found them.

SAT: 730 Reading // 780 Math // 670 Writing; taken in Dec 09
Subj Tests: 750 Chemistry // 800 Mathematics Level 2 // 800 Physics; taken in May 10

N.B. provided as is, and without underlying connotations of "you must beat HJ" Dx
 
Well, I took the ACT back in March, and my scores was nineteen in total.  (nineteen in English, fifteen in reading, twenty-one in math, and eighteen in science (I think...?))  I'm thinking about re-taking the ACT over the summer and improve to at least a twenty-one in total or higher.  Where I am, if you get a score of twenty-one or higher, I could get a free ride to college.

As for SAT, I won't bother trying it, because unlike the ACT, if you have a wrong answer, you lose points.  In the ACT, only the correct answers will be scored.  (At least that is what I have heard.)
 
Simisear said:
I'll be taking the SATs next year. They don't seem too bad, but I still don't want to take them.

My friend got like a 2330 (out of 2400?).
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Your friend better be going to friggin Harvard.
Wacky109 said:
Well, I took the ACT back in March, and my scores was nineteen in total.  (nineteen in English, fifteen in reading, twenty-one in math, and eighteen in science (I think...?))  I'm thinking about re-taking the ACT over the summer and improve to at least a twenty-one in total or higher.  Where I am, if you get a score of twenty-one or higher, I could get a free ride to college.

As for SAT, I won't bother trying it, because unlike the ACT, if you have a wrong answer, you lose points.  In the ACT, only the correct answers will be scored.  (At least that is what I have heard.)
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I can never take the ACT cause it has Science in it, my biggest achilles heel. Science would bring my grade down too much. Besides, I'm actually good at essay writing essays so the SAT is just better for my style.

And tbh I'm kinda scared about Math now more than Reading. I'm confident I can score over 500 which is like the chum bench mark to getting a 1500 and a respectable SAT score but I'm scared I might not get 600. My Geometry knowledge lacks significantly.
 
Well I took it yesterday, the test was ok. Not too hard or anything. I feel good that I'm not a complete idiot cause no one in the room except me I was testing in knew how to write script, not even the instructor. Now I was really tempted to say something but I just stayed silent during the test cause I knew if I said something it'd be a smartass comment.
 
I think I took the ACT, and I gotta say, my scores were God awful...though, I don't remember what they were.
 
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