<p>My 8th grader took the SAT's yesterday and he had it wasn't as hard as he thought it was going to be. Any other 8th graders feel the same way?</p>
<p>Yea, I took it 2 months ago and got a 2380. I’ll probably take it again in a few years to round off those last 20 points.</p>
<p>the SAT seems like the easiest test in the world and then you get a combined 1400 and you cry yourself to sleep every night for a month and a half.</p>
<p>How hard the test itself is doesn’t matter. What matters is how well you do relative to others.</p>
<p>Would like to call out dfree as a ■■■■■.</p>
<p>I took the SATs when I was in sixth grade and got a 2350. True story.</p>
<p>I literally didn’t know what the SAT’s were until probably second semester of my freshman year. Why would anyone take it in middle school (unless it was for an honors program like CTY)</p>
<p>Yeah if you’re making your son take the SAT in 8th grade, you’re probably not being an effective parent. Your kid needs to relax and enjoy his remaining childhood, he’ll have the rest of high school for the SAT. Pushing him hard now is unnecessary. Try not to push him, but rather expect excellence from him. Everyone else here saying that the SAT seems easy and you wind up with a bad score is right. I guarantee that although your son thought it was easy and probably thinks he got an uber high schore, he really scored around a 1500. And the people saying they scored over a 2300 in MS are trolls. Impossible.</p>
<p>Kids often take the test in middle school to qualify for sevices and programs through talent search programs like Duke TIPS, the Midwest Academic Talent Search, CTY, etc. It is perfectly legitimate, and in no way a sign of being an “ineffective parent”. The scores are thrown out by College Board when the kids hit 9th grade, so they just have to take it again anyway. It is not impossible for a kid to get a 2300 as an 8th grader, but pretty rare (maybe a couple a year accomplish this). Much more common for a kid to be very good at one section (eg, my kid scored a 740 in CR as an 8th grader, but only mid-600s for math). And she was able to use that score to go to a highly selective summer program for gifted kids that would not have been an option without a SAT or ACT score to register for the program.</p>
<p>That said, the original poster might not have thought hard enough about how their post sounded to everyone else when they posted it… I personally would NOT have made that post even if my eighth grader thought it was easy (or even if my 11th grader thought it was easy). But there are good reasons for kids to take standarized tests in middle school. Or the OP is a ■■■■■ (why put this on the “high school life” forum, instead of the parents forum?).</p>
<p>Yeah hopefully the poster is a ■■■■■.</p>
<p>Took ACT as fetus. </p>
<p>Nbd.</p>
<p>If your kid really performed that wellthey are probably socially awkward due to the level of intelligence. What a pity.</p>
<p>I really don’t understand what the point of this thread was.</p>
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<p>Now what on Earth would give you that idea?</p>
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<p>Bananafreak is probably trying to ■■■■■ you.</p>
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<p>You shouldn’t put boundaries on what’s possible. There are people in this thread who got 2300+ in middle school, and I got a 2060 in seventh grade. It’s slightly more than a 1500 - and I didn’t study that much.</p>
<p>I got a 2500.</p>
<p>Wow, talk about a confidence crusher. I shouldnt have clicked on this thread lol. I got a 2000 this year as a senior. TT_TT Granted, I should have studied but still~! You need at least Alg I/II and Geometry to understand the math section and students dont even get to complete all of those courses until the end of freshman year, and that’s the fastest course available!</p>
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Nope, only Algebra I and a bit of Geometry, which is all done in MS.</p>
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<p>That is a pretty broad assumption, and definitely not accurate for all the high scorers I have met over the years. Even if some of them are more awkward than you are, they are probably all more polite than you are as well. Plus, I am guessing none of them would trade their smarts (and their likely success long term in college admissions) for better social skills.</p>