<p>if your parents or you even, drill it into you at a young age, you will know how to work methodically and systematically very quickly. but that requires tons of discipline. </p>
<p>if your parents forced you to do math until you were doing 70 long division problems in 10 minutes and progressed you up to geometry level, i'd say you'd be doing pretty good on the SAT. </p>
<p>i, myself, suck ping pong balls at the math section.
*dies</p>
<p>oh, btw, i'm asian but i'm indian.</p>
<p>Okay I'm Indian (still Asian, I think people forget that haha) and I am horrible at math!</p>
<p>@The taiwanese students
That's very common, because english is the second language for most fobs, making it very obviously more difficult for them to do well on the reading comprehension, due to a lack of exposure...</p>
<p>PS: I hope fob isn't offensive to you or anything like that
I am Chinese as well and it has always been a term to refer to people who are chinese-born chinese</p>
<p>Haha, this topic is interesting. I'm 100% Asian and I gonna take SAT in Oct. Surely I haven't got the score yet, but in practice test, my lowest Maths score is 790 ( both SAT 1 and SAT 2 )
Let's me tell you something about how Asian students got higher Maths score than the others
First in my country, we have to study Pre Calculus and even Calculus ( like my class ) in high school. So, we know a lots of Maths concepts and practice more than any normal American student. The fact that if you have a look on Asian University Entrance Exam, you will see how easy SAT Maths is
However, don't think every Asian student is good at Maths. WRONG ! Many of them completely know nothing about it. The high-Maths-score-Asian you always see is at least in top 20% in their school. They know how difficult when applying to US University so taking the SAT means they are already good students
So what's our disadvantage. No doubt it's C Reading. I myself find it's very difficult when reading a long-boring-ununderstandable passage. Another disadvantage is essay. We can deal with the grammar question, but in essay, even when you have ideas, it's hard to express them into sentences as you're a non native English speaker</p>
<p>Asians take math cause it's math. All there is to it.</p>
<p>Math is a universal language. English is not.</p>
<p>asians are good a math collectively
this does not mean everyone is good; it just means that compared to other races, there's a higher percentile of better math scores</p>
<p>some people think only chinese are good at math where i live...</p>
<p>in my high school, chinese, jewish people, and russian kids dominate upper level math courses :P</p>
<p>oh yeah btw SAT math is nothing to do with math.
its like an IQ test.</p>
<p>I scored only 720 (I'm Asian), and I'm constantly being ridiculed by another Asian boy for scoring less than perfect. He says I'm a disgrace to my race. :P</p>
<p>Yes, Asians (especially first generation), TEND to be more analytical (due to emphasis in home countries) and less expressive. This is a general trend, not a rule. So please do not take offense.</p>
<p>Gosh. So stereotypical.</p>
<p>There are asians who are smart.
There are asians who are dumb (no offense intended).
THere are other ethnicities who are smart.
There are other ethnicities who are dumb (again, no offense intended).</p>
<p>It depends on who you are.
How much you studied.
And many other things to consider.</p>
<p>Race dosen't determine your "smart"-ness. =/</p>
<p>Yea, join the math team. It'll help you lol
My school's math team is mainly asian but the person who is the best is white.</p>
<p>Also, maybe you just don't try as hard on the SAT. It's cliche, but check your answers. Don't think that math is easy so you don't have to try.</p>
<p>I'm Asian and for some reason I've almost always done better on verbal sections of standardized tests than the math sections, even though I didn't learn English until I was 8. </p>
<p>I ended up with 760-CR, 760-M, 770-W (although I usually scored lower on the math on practice tests). I had to study extensively to get an 800 on the Math II, but I got an 800 in World History with almost no studying. I also found AP Calc BC to be difficult compared to other classes.</p>
<p>So I declare myself a member of the Asians Who Are (Relatively) Inept at Math Club.</p>
<p>I agree with the Math things. I got 760 for it..
The thing I regret is my Reading and Writing section....Very poor..</p>
<p>BTW..anyone have SAT ebooks (a good one please).It's quite hard to get them here..Thanks</p>
<p>lol its always nice to break stereotypes</p>
<p>haha, i feel your pain! i am asian too, but normally get around 700 in math on practice tests...whereas cr and writing score pretty high.</p>
<p>hahaha its natural!</p>
<p>my math and writing scores tend to be 750-800; my critical reading scores are high 600s low 700s</p>
<p>i only have two asians in my grade and we're both really good at essay writing...it's interesting to see that that's not really a stereotype</p>
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if your parents or you even, drill it into you at a young age, you will know how to work methodically and systematically very quickly. but that requires tons of discipline. </p>
<p>if your parents forced you to do math until you were doing 70 long division problems in 10 minutes and progressed you up to geometry level, i'd say you'd be doing pretty good on the SAT.
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<p>Yeah, this is what happened to me. I hate math now, but I scored an 800 anyway. This is probably the case for a lot of Asian kids.</p>
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First in my country, we have to study Pre Calculus and even Calculus ( like my class ) in high school. So, we know a lots of Maths concepts and practice more than any normal American student.
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stephennguyen, it is actually quite commonplace for American students to learn calculus in high school.</p>