<p>No. And then came the world of "let's recenter the test". </p>
<p>If they'd not recentered it, we'd only have a handful of perfect scorers per year.</p>
<p>SAT 2400 is more prestige than ACT 36.</p>
<p>Oh, and 150 AMC pwns 2400 SAT AND 36 ACT combined.</p>
<p>Of course. I never knew bout the AMC/AIME/USAMO/IMO until my MIT application so I'm trying to register for it this year cause I really wanna try the AMC LOL.</p>
<p>haha, yeah. Only like, a handful of people get a 150 AMC. It's much rarer than either 2400 or 36...and it's pound-for-pound much harder, too :)</p>
<p>Much. Just qualifying for AIME must be extremely difficult.</p>
<p>Yeah, qualifying for AIME, I'd say, is (much)^10 harder than 800 SAT-M.</p>
<p>Is it that easy to get a 36 on the ACT? Everybody here seems to have gotten either a 35 or 36 and its making me feel like my 36 isn't all that great. I was really excited too! (even tho i had a feeling i would get it)</p>
<p>Oh no 36 is still really good. I think there are the same number of 36's as 2400's if not a bit less every year.</p>
<p>I wish the SAT were still curved like it was before '95... and had analogies and stuff. I'd CONQUER THAT BEAST!</p>
<p>Interestingly, I qualified for the AIME and scored quite well (7 out of 15) but I only got 780 on the SAT math (it was a stupid mistake, but still)</p>
<p>There are no smart mistakes. Maybe people should be working on aplomb instead of vocabulary lists.</p>
<p>Considering that the SAT is primarily an aptitude test whereas the ACT is primarily an achievement test, a 2400 on the SAT certainly portends more collegiate opportunities than a 36 on the ACT.
The only thing better than a 2400 on the SAT(238 students out of 1,376,000 college bound seniors achieve that score) is an absolute 36 on the ACT
English:36 Essay:12 Math:36 Science:36 Reading:36
less than 100 accomplish this feat out of 1,100,000 approx</p>
<p>I actually know someone who went to my gifted school when I was younger who scored both a 36 on his ACT AND a 2400 on his SAT! that is extremely rare, less than 20 people do that every year. Right now he is about to graduate from Harvard at the age of 20 with a 3.96 G.P.A.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.collegeboard.com/prod_downloads/highered/ra/sat/SATPercentileRanksCompositeCR_M_W.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.collegeboard.com/prod_downloads/highered/ra/sat/SATPercentileRanksCompositeCR_M_W.pdf</a>
Check that score distribution chart out (2006 figures) to approximate roughly where you stand nationwide.
Apparently my 2360 places me in the top 1260 college-bound seniors (99.91%ile)</p>
<p>As for the ACT data I guess I was a bit off 300 people got a 36 Composite ACT score (out of 1,300,000) but some of those people really got a 35.5 or a 35.75 (ACT rounds up scores)
<a href="http://www.act.org/news/data/07/pdf/National2007.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.act.org/news/data/07/pdf/National2007.pdf</a>
check page 12 for score distribution for each subtest and composite score</p>
<p>another interesting resource is the putative IQ correlation chart with SAT performance (V+M) SAT</a> I to IQ Estimator Despite the new writing section in the SAT reasoning test, the verbal and mathematical scores are scaled in the same way as they were prior to the update so this chart is valid. </p>
<p>How</a> to estimate your IQ based on your GRE or SAT scores</p>
<p>For whatever it's worth, to touch on two things, S was tested at age 5 in order to qualify for gifted program. The test was the WPPSI-R and he scored 146. He was able to attend gifted programs K-12 for which I give profuse thanks to our Public School system. 11 years later results were "corroborated" by 240 PSAT (0 wrong), 2360 SAT (4 wrong), 36 ACT (1 wrong) within 6 months of each other. To me, the most impressive would be the 2400 SAT.</p>
<p>What kind of question is this? SAT is by far the harder test. I've lost count on how many times I've been played by those CR passage questions. Its like a friggin mind game.</p>
<p>J'adoube you do make a valid point, the SAT is much more strongly correlated with IQ than the ACT is. I found the ACT to be harder than the SAT probably because I was a scholastic truant for most of my high school years, especially in science classes. It is important to note that the ACT contains 215 questions whereas the SAT contains only 170, therefore the probability that you will miss a single question on the ACT (despite the differing difficulty levels) is greater than it is on the SAT. Furthermore, unlike on the SAT, if you miss even one problem on any ACT section you automatically forfeit the opportunity to get a 36 on that section (on the SAT critical reading section I missed 1 question and still got an 800) whereas on the SAT the raw score is indexed to difficulty level as measured by the aggregate performance of the students who take a given version of the test.
Anyway, lets just agree to disagree-those who underachieve in school with high intellectual aptitudes will perform better on the SAT than the ACT, and those who are more dedicated to their studies often perform better on the ACT than the SAT. I fall in the former category. That is quite strange J'Adoube because it seems like S and I performed exactly the same on both the PSAT: 240(0 wrong) and on the SAT (3 wrong -2Math;1 CR) 2360 but "S" killed me on the ACT I bet he got into a much better school than I am in ;-) </p>
<p>Nonetheless SAT/GRE/ACT/IQ scores don't amount to self-fulfillment, what really counts is how you allocate your time and employ your talents to further your ambitions and to sustain your well-being. I am sorry if I came off as boastful....</p>
<p>what about (ignore writing) 1600 vs 36???</p>
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<p>Qualifying to take the AIME (did you mean the USAMO?) is considerably more commonplace than acing either the SAT or the ACT. </p>
<p>AIME</a> I & II 2008 Statistics </p>
<p><a href="http://www.act.org/news/data/08/pdf/two.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.act.org/news/data/08/pdf/two.pdf</a> </p>
<p>However, acing the AIME after qualifying to take it is VERY rare, and the few people who have done that are mostly known by name to many of the people who qualify to take the AIME.</p>