<p>Every day of my life I think about the 1360 I got on the SAT back in 2003. I had been expecting a much higher score because I got a 1420 on PSAT. Now not a day goes by where I don't think about the score and what it means. I am an idiot, stupider than a good 20% of the population. This is because SAT scores are so highly correlated with IQ that for all practical purposes what I was really taking that day was an IQ test. I could settle things once and for all by actually taking an IQ test itself, but I am terribly afraid that it would only provide further confirmation that I am stupid.</p>
<p>I was just wondering how other people moved on with their lives after getting an unexpectedly low score on the SAT. I took the test six years ago and still have not comes to term with the score I received. I just want to go back so badly and never find out that stupid score. If any one here has doubts about their intelligence and is contemplating taking the SAT, I implore you not to. Not to be melodramatic, but don't let it ruin your life like it ruined mine.</p>
<p>I can completely relate to you. I got around that score and was rejected from absolutely every college, regardless of my above average GPA. I was literally depressed for months because I felt as though I was one of the dumbest people alive. I stayed out of college for two years before I felt as though trying would equal instant failure since a test revealed that I was in fact “stupid” in comparison to my peers.</p>
<p>I still haven’t gotten over it. It’s hard for me to meet new people because I believe that I’m stupid and incapable of having a decent connection with them due to my limited ability. I questioned my intelligence before the test and it only verified that I was correct in my accusations.</p>
<p>My school counselor even told me that college was unrealistic for me.</p>
<p>Years later, I have a job, I’m living independently, and I have a great relationship with my significant other. I feel as though something is missing–I feel so incompetent intellectually in comparison to my boyfriend, and I feel as though I’ll never have a successful career.</p>
<p>Though the SAT is nothing like the IQ test. I scored high on an actual IQ test but incredible low on the SAT. I don’t know if that means much but even the typically dumb high school student scored higher then I did. I want to go to college so badly but my SAT score disqualifies me from anything.</p>
<p>Not only does the SAT not correlate to the IQ test, but the IQ test does not correlate to intelligence. Both correlate to how well you take the damn test.</p>
<p>The only way to measure intelligence is to see it in a real-world situation. Being able to solve geometry problems and identify grammar errors does not correlate with being able to be a leader, contrive a clever solution, or work successfully.</p>
<p>Just go take the GRE.
You’re the only one who will care about the SAT score, (un)fortunately employers will ask you about your GPA for the next several decades.</p>
<p>Once I hit 40 I could no longer remember my SAT score. A few years later I couldn’t remember the name of my first grade teacher. The day is coming when I probably won’t be able to remember the names of my kids. Then, one day I’ll forget how to breath and it will all be over. Cheer up. The same will happen to you. Unless you go to hell, of course. If you go to hell you’ll receive a mailing from the CollegeBoard every morning for eternity.</p>
<p>you got a 1420 on the psat (which is easier than the sat) and were expecting what? a 1600? 1360 on sat = 1420 on psat and since this is probably a ■■■■■ post, at least make it more humorous and exaggerated</p>
<p>get some more practice and try again in a week</p>
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<li><p>PSAT scores are supposed to be higher than SAT. My 1420 on the PSAT placed me in 98%, yet my SAT was around 85% (clearly 1360 on SAT is relatively worse than 1420 on PSAT).</p></li>
<li><p>Your argument that an IQ test does not measure intelligence is flawed. An IQ test actually does predict fairly well who can in your words, “contrive a clever solution, or work successfully”.</p></li>
<li><p>I took the GRE and scored very high. 99% on Verbal and 97% Math. However, GRE is not as IQ based as the SAT as it involves far less reasoning. Mostly Vocab and simple math. </p></li>
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<p>Your collective inability to understand my problem leads me to conclude that you guys are even stupider than I am. Obviously, receiving a low SAT score and finding out that you are an idiot is very traumatic. That you would be so dimissive and assume that I must be a ■■■■■ is incredible. How can you fail to see the significance of a low SAT score on a person’s life? Before I got the score, I was under the assumption that I was one of the smartest people alive. Then, I receive this piece of mail that shattered my entire view of who I was and my place in society. I went from being at the top to the middle rungs.</p>
<p>wow first of all the SAT does not equal intelligence. Second a lot of people experience test anxiety due to the strict time limitations of the test so their scores may not reflect their true ability. anyway we will all let u go on being depressed about ur lack of intelligence but just take it somewhere else</p>