SAT Exam or test or whatever

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Originally Posted by The Germanator

What do you mean by two points? The SAT is scored in numbers ending in zero, so you couldn't possibly get a 1598...You could get a 1580 or 1590, but that's a little different. Thousands get perfect scores of 1600, so not getting a 1600 would probably get you about 100th place in the state or something...*shrug*

well he said back when she took it. that coulda been the first ever version of the test. and before they added the silly 0 at the end to make people feel better with thier scores.

so she coulda just scored 158.

[ZebraRampage]

My highest score on the SATs was an 1190, and my highest combined score, because I took the test three times, was a 1200. I'd say that the verbal was a lot tougher. The highest I scored on the verbal between all three tests was 550, and the highest I scored on the math was 650. I think I'd rank the math as being 4/10 for difficulty, and the I'd give the verbal a 6 or 7 out of 10.

[Xantar]

I got 1580. I suppose that seems high until you consider that about a third of my peers here at Swarthmore College got perfect 1600.

I had 780 on Math and 800 on Verbal. At the time, I was a much more left-brained person than I am now. However, I scored lower on Math because you are allowed fewer mistakes before getting a less than perfect score. I may have made just as many mistakes in both sections, but I would have gotten a lower score in Math for it. I think that Verbal is harder than Math just because the answers can sometimes seem rather arbitrary. I especially disliked reading comprehension questions because they were often tied to passages that were honestly pretty poorly written.

I believe the SAT IIs I used for college were Math 2c, Chemistry and Latin. I'm not positive about those, though. Whatever they were, I got somewhere in the 700s for all of them.

I took no prep course for the exams whatsoever. In my opinion, they are a waste of time and money. You'd be much better off just buying a book and studying from it. As for the SAT IIs, the best preparation you can get is AP courses if they are available at your high school. Obviously, it all worked well enough for me.