<p>If so, I'm totally screwed. WTH?! Personally I don't think it determines anything. Maybe I'm a bad test taker, it doesn't mean I'm incompetant at everything else. TBH, all the SAT is, is just a way for stupid collegeboard to make money.</p>
<p>There are statistics out saying that it has no relation. Obviously people who have higher SAT scores go to colleges that are more challenging and that might be a confunding variable, but overall… people can be smart, but slack off.</p>
<p>I really don’t think it does.</p>
<p>Why would you need a sentence completion section? Do you really need to know complex words to do well. I understand you should know how to use context clues, but I see no reason in sentence completion. Critical reading… yes</p>
<p>edit-
In college you have to write essays, and write them using the correct grammar. I think writing is the most beneficial section. Yet, not all colleges even look at this section?</p>
<p>But, I really don’t think it does show how well you do.</p>
<p>There’s some correlation. You need a certain level of intelligence to do really really well on the test. Most people, no matter how much tutoring they get, will not score 2200+. </p>
<p>However, the SAT is a highly coachable test and depending on the level of instruction they receive, two people of equal intelligence may score 100 or more points apart. The lower scorer isn’t dumber, he just wasn’t taught as well.</p>
<p>take me for example.</p>
<p>im really lazy. my gpa kind of sucks. well like 3.2, but i know i could have done a lot better.</p>
<p>i just got back the results of my first SAT and got a 2010. I didn’t study that much.</p>
<p>My friends who take harder classes, have a better GPA, and even took some SAT classes all scored lower than me. so now i actually might be able to make a pretty good college and im pretty happy. :D</p>
<p>I say no IMO…</p>
<p>I’m sure it does. Otherwise, top schools wouldn’t make it such a huge factor in admissions. You can excuse that by saying that they are just doing it for the rankings (and I’m sure some are), but some schools do have a lot of integrity about their process. They probably aren’t itching to release any potentially offensive internal data that says that the vast majority of the population isn’t capable of succeeding at their school.</p>
<p>No, because some lazy people might be naturally smart and score well on the SAT, but in college they would be too lazy to do the work and wouldn’t do well.</p>
<p>no it doesnt</p>
<p>I think you mean “predict” or “correlate with” instead of “determine.” Obviously changing a few answers on your scantron isn’t going to have any effect on your college grades (except that you might end up at a different college :)).</p>
<p>As for whether it’s a useful predictor, I think a B student in high school with 2200 SAT score could do better if they put their mind to it than a Valedictorian with 1700. Whether they’d actually put in that effort is a different question.</p>
<p>Well, no I dont think so.</p>
<p>No because there can be someone with a 2250 who parties a lot and flunks out, while a guy with an 1800 can work hard and get a good gpa (I’ve heard many times that as long as you work hard, you will do well in college).</p>