<p>Or your school is easy.
Don’t worry, study more and then re-take SAT I.</p>
<p>The SAT doesn’t measure how good you are in writing and math. It measures how good you are at taking the SAT. (Quote from someone else.) Get the blue book (Official Collegeboard SAT Study Guide), read it, and do practice tests off of it.
- Critical Reading is the hardest to improve upon, and will be the closest score (after studying) to what you have now. If you read often, there should be no reason to score average or lower on CR, but it’s hard to study. Study both Passage-Based Reading and Sentence Completion (vocabulary).
- Writing is extremely easy to improve upon if you learn grammar rules and commit to using them. The essay also plays a big factor: write as much as you can, using specific, relevant, and interesting examples, proper grammar and vocabulary, and at least 4-5 paragraphs.
- Math only covers up to Algebra II, but it’s not Math so much as Logic sometimes. In real math class, if you learn certain formulas and apply them well, you get good scores. In SAT Math, it’s more thinking logically. Some of the questions they give you barely qualify as “Math”. That being said, it’s the easiest section to score well on.</p>
<p>Also, since you have a 5.4 weighted GPA, I assume you’ve taken AP tests. How were they compared to the SAT? If they were good (scores of 4-5 or even 3), it’s just the SAT format that’s bugging you,. If they were bad, you’re either not a test-taking kind of person or your school practices grade inflation. (I wouldn’t be so quick to say that as much as other people here; it appears as if your greatest obstacle to scoring well on the SAT was simply that you didn’t study.)</p>
<p>to sum up what the people above have said…maybe you’re not a good standardized test taker…a girl in my class is ranked 5th…and has a 4.0+ GPA…and is extremely adept when it comes to school work…she made a 1820 while i made a 2120…im not even ranked in the top 30…so it seems as if this is the case in your situation…just try and study and see if itll help. some people just panic when it comes to SAT/ACTs…and over-think questions…some people just get them. try the ACT…usually school oriented people do better on that test because it tests more over what you have learned through your high school career…and not intuition</p>
<p>Lawl yeah, you’re not the sharpest tool in the shed.</p>
<p>I took the PSAT when I was in 7th grade and scored 175, which in SAT terms is a 1750…</p>
<p>Stop thinking you’re smarter than everyone else, and actually study.</p>
<p>Who cares if you have a high GPA. Grades are NOT an indicator of how smart you are. Grades are projects, which (usually) involve little-to-no knowledge to get good grades on. School tests are also nothing like the SAT. You KNOW, more or less, what you are going to be tested on in school. (In a Geometry class, you’re not going to be thrown a Calc. question, and in US history, you’re not going to be thrown a Chinese Dynasty question). The SAT is a different ball game. The topics are general. You could get anything from geometry to algebra. You don’t get a set list of vocab words to study. And the essay prompts are random.</p>
<p>The fact that you post a thread asking if you are stupid is a pretty good indicator of how smart and internet savvy you are. This is the internet, not an “I failed the SAT anonymous”. People aren’t going to be nice. Sorry.</p>
<p>And really, “This dosn’t make sense to me because my gpa is a perfect 4.0 and my weighted gpa is a 5.4”?</p>
<p>Your school weights honor/AP courses as 1.4 more points? </p>
<p>I’m starting to think you are a ■■■■■…</p>
<p>Damn, I probably wasted a lot of my time T_T</p>