got A+ in US history but only 380 on the SAT

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<p>sorry, this may be long but i'm really worried</p>

<p>i took US history SAT and got 380. i got 560 in math 2 (i could only finish half of the test) and 670 in physics. i know these r not good scores and i'm going to re-take math and physics in the fall, since i wasn't prepared last time.</p>

<p>i'm going to apply to UC's, and i know they only look at my 2 best subject tests scores, but they will still see my history test score. </p>

<p>i'm a straight A student and i don't think my school inflates the grades, since about half of the students failed this US history class. but anyway, i'm a student from a broad and i suck in history. what we studied in the class wasn't covered in the test. and i don't feel like retaking it, i dont think my score will improve if i retake it. </p>

<p>what will the colleges think when i got A's and A+'s but my history score is only 380!? T_T.. </p>

<p>i'm just worried if this 380 will affect my application.</p>

<p>thank u</p>

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<p>schools will say what the hell is up with this kid, he must REALLY suck at test taking, or they will (more likely) say GRADE INFLATION.</p>

<p>I got a B in the class, and i got a 760. 86.3%
.2% off a B+. I'm bitter</p>

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<p>380?!?! was there some king of error? i hated US History and i still got a 680. i sucked at it too</p>

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<p>Is there any way you can compare your score to the grades and scores of other students in the class? That would really be the only way to get perspective. Also, how spefically did the test differ from the course?</p>

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<p>My teacher didn't really go into details. We hardly discussed about early centuries at all. And he focused on the 19 hundreds. And the the stuff we studied didn't appear in the test :S</p>

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<p>UCs won't care about any score other than the top two, but a 380? Sorry buddy, but your grade was massively inflated.</p>

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<p>You fell for the trap that a lot of high schoolers fall for, you took the SATII history test without taking an AP course</p>

<p>a number of normal history classes only cover the 1900s onward, which doesn't prepare you at all for the SATII</p>

<p>i wouldn't say that your grade was inflated, but I don't know what colleges will think.</p>

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<p>You misbubbled. That's the only possible explanation. There is no way you actually took a class about US history and scored a 380 (even if it only covered the 1900s). A 380 is approximately equal to a raw score of 3. If you left every single question on the test blank, you would get around a 360 (maybe a 380 if the curve was a litte more generous than usual).</p>

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<p>Look on the bright side, a 380 puts you in the 2nd percentile... which reveals that it is indeed possible to get a LOWER score. Wow.</p>

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<p>I saw your post on Yahoo as well about your score. But yeah, wow.</p>

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<p>i would either explain it to colleges as a bubbling error or get the AMSCO book and study like crazy for October. You can decide although the latter probably looks better.</p>

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<p>you need to retake it and get a better score. There MUST have been some type of error.</p>

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<p>that's really strange. when you were taking the test did you feel like you know most of it? is it possible you filled in the wrong bubbles?</p>

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<p>omg, just buy a few test prep books and retake the test</p>

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<p>Yeah, just buy a couple of history subject test books and study for a couple of weeks...</p>

<p>I think that your history teacher is not teaching history... maybe he/she's focussing on something completely different... like north pole's history or something...</p>

<p>If you are a striaght A student, you should do fine...</p>

<p>But your school's grades do seem inflated considering your other subject test scores.</p>

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<p>i posted like 3 questions on yahoo lol. in the other subjects there were also topics that we didn't cover in the class. but the tests didn't seem that hard. but the history test was hard. my problem was mainly the timing. i left 25 questions blank on the math test and skipped a lot of questions on the physics test, but i'm ordering the prep books now so i can work on full-length tests. </p>

<p>btw, do i need a real history textbook then? or should i just get perp books to study.</p>

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<p>Just get the AMSCO book for history. Memorize it, and that's all you need.</p>

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<p>I think there's some way to get your test book sent to you or rechecked (for money, of course). With a score like that, you might want to consider it - it's quite possible you bubbled wrong or something else.</p>

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<p>Ya, 380 seems... wow..</p>

<p>How many people are valedictorian at your school? Just wondering if there really was major grade inflation.</p>

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<p>I don't know. But in this class not so many ppl got A's. the teacher never used the textbook. we didn't have final exams, we had to do big projects instead, which didn't help us learn much. well, for the whole 2nd semester we only studied the second half of the 1900s. we just watched videos (the american times and movies about e.g. vietnam war) most of the time and took notes, and we never had exams, not even small quizes. a large portion of the grade comes from the essays he assigned us for hw. a lot of people failed this class because they didn't turn in their works. also, the students I know who had classes with this teacher hated him. lol.</p>