<p>Can someone make a chart based on their opinions on how GPA and ACT/SAT scores should correlate?</p>
<p>I don’t think there is a possible correlation between the two - a lot of what someone’s GPA is stems from their effort and general hard work put into a class. The SAT is just reasoning, and more often than not, high school courses don’t require an excessive amount of reasoning.</p>
<p>Not really, because high school grades are inflated more than the ACT/SAT is. Logically a perfect GPA would go with a perfect score, but there are a lot more people with unweighted 4.0s than 2400s.</p>
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And memorizing vocabulary is reasoning, according to your definition of reasoning?</p>
<p>In the vocab you can REASON that four answer choices are incorrect. But I agree that the SAT is more than just reasoning:</p>
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No you can’t unless you know the definition of at least four words, which is much more improbable than knowing the definition of the single, correct answer. You clearly didn’t think that one out.</p>
<p>For a school without grade inflation…what would you expect a GPA region to be compared to an ACT/SAT region?</p>
<p>That’s not something you can generalize into a chart. Grade inflation would vary from school to school, and class to class. Also, GPA is calculated differently at different schools. Some schools are on 7 point scales; some are on 10 point scales. My school for example takes off .333 points for minuses and adds .333 for pluses (except for a A+). Additionally, what it takes to do well in school vs on the SAT/ACT are different. Those tests won’t judge your work ethic, ability to work together, write a literary analysis, do a lab report or research a topic, etc., but school will.</p>
<p>which is more important, generally? does a 3.89 UW GPA/4.74 W GPA not cut it for harvard, even with a 2350+ SAT I score?</p>
<p>@blahblah9393, it’s called context clues and deriving root words.</p>
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Problem: you need to know the root words, which are, once again, memorized. Context clues don’t help you if you can’t define the words.</p>
<p>Simple example: Joe ran fast. Equivalently, Joe ran ____.
(a) dewdewdw
(b) thggyhtgdrf
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The blank must be some synonym for fast. However, since you don’t know what “dewdewdw” or “thggyhtgdrf” mean, you cannot eliminate either.</p>
<p>In what sense does the SAT involve reasoning more than high school tests do? The reading/writing sections depend entirely on you knowing English words and grammar conventions, which is fairly a posteriori if you ask me.</p>
<p>The only part of the SAT that include reasoning is the Passages in the critical reading section and the mathematics section. Memorizing vocab, as Blahblah said is in no way reasoning.</p>
<p>It all involves reasoning in some way, but the SAT doesn’t test reasoning in the way that (say) an IQ test does. What is the SAT supposed to test exactly?</p>
<p>Readiness for college-level work. I’m not convinced that it does, but that’s the (quite explicit, I might add) intention.</p>