<p>How come, academically (in school), I do pretty well, but my SAT scores suck so much?! :( I do not expect those ranked below me to do "worse" than me on the SAT's, but many of them do much better than I! What are some explanations for this?</p>
<p>Either you try harder in school to get good grades than they do, or the SAT just doesnt bode well with your thought patterns.</p>
<p>you could just be bad at standardized testing. i'm in the exact same situation. i've got ppl below me scoring 2200+ but i didnt even break 2000. i'm ranked pretty high at a pretty competitive high school too. but i just dont get the SAT1. SAT2s are fine tho, since they're more subject oriented.</p>
<p>edit: and no i don't try as hard as the people below me. i'm actually considered to be pretty lazy</p>
<p>Does it make sense that a student's GPA will be high and their SAT scores are low? I don't know how to rate my high school with others, but it is pretty competetive in the Northeast. It just feels like I'm doomed to not go to the college of my choice (even though there are many excellent colleges out there- there is a reason why we have a number one choice!). :(</p>
<p>I flat out blow in school.. that is because my attendance is around 64%
but I scored all 5's/4's on my AP tests (6 of em) and 3 of those were self study..
I also recieved a 234 PSAT this year as a soph.. GPA = 3.35.. used to be 4.0 untill this year :-)</p>
<p>TELL ME YOUR SECRET! lol... I just don't do well on tests, especially the SAT I's CR and W (even though I believe I can do better on that writing with some more studying and prayer). However, my CR is down the drain, and I feel almost hopeless. I have been told many times to read the NYTimes, but instead, I try to invest my time in SAT prep books. I only have several months until the Oct. SAT I (but only a few weeks until school starts- meaning I will have no time to study if I want more than 2 hours of sleep each night!).</p>
<p>Im kind of like toto, i havent gotten the best grades but i seem to do alright in testing. I think its all about effort, this year first semester I am going to get straight A's. And Totoboy you got one 3.</p>
<p>Nope :-) I was in chicago and my mom read my scores over the mail, found the paper in the mail when I got back and read it myself and it was a 4 in comp gov, I"m happy now.</p>
<p>You can easily memorize and brown nose with teachers all the way to a 4.0. I know a girl who stayed up till 2 making outlines for health tests. A health test????? Come on. Anyway, she is way in the lead for number one but she is such an idiot. Thank god for the sat. On a practice test she got a 1430 on the NEW one. She is using her title to try and get in hard schools like UCLA, Boston College, Georgetown, ect. Hopefully they will see right through her and realize what an idiot she is. No lie, she is probably retarded. Does anyone have a similar situation?</p>
<p>I can't really judge whether she is an idiot or not- because I don't know her, but the fact that you labeled her as being "retarded" makes me question your integrity- again, I don't know you either. If she's up until 2 am making outlines (which I think is a little extreme for a health exam), then she deserves SOME credit. Come on, she sounds like a very hard working student, and maybe standardized tests aren't her thing. By the way, can you maybe elaborate the situation? What makes her an "idiot"?</p>
<p>Well hard working is good I think. But like extreme memorization for subjects without comprehension ****es me off. Those who only memorize and do not know how to connect the facts need to fail seriously. They need a F because they didn't think when they 'studied.'</p>
<p>jq: Actually, at my school, some health tests really are extreme. On one exam, the entire test was true and false on Remember the Titans, something not many expected. I wouldn't call somebody that worked hard to learn material for a health test retarded.</p>
<p>However, I do agree that the fact that she's number one and she's only at 1430 as being completely absurd.</p>
<p>imiracle911:</p>
<p>You bring up a good point: extreme memorization without comprehension. There are a handful of students I know that are ranked higher than me for two reasons: 1) They memorize until the end of time, and 2) They ask others for help but never provide the same courtesy to others. That, to me, does not even need to question one's integrity. They are in our class for themselves and themselves only. While it is good that it encourages competition, it is at a a price that many overlook easily- integrity.</p>
<p>P.S.- I think this thread may be going away from the initial topic, but it doesn't matter, because the discussion is great.</p>
<p>Alright she is not retarded, without too much work she could pass as one. </p>
<p>My theory: She memorizes facts without the skill or knowledge to connect them to other things. Immediately after tests she dumps them from her brain and memorizes some more stuff. Then when she takes the sat, the only skills she possess are the ones that have to do with memorizing things ir not many. Therefore, she fails miserably and plunges into a deep abyss of "wannabe intellect syndrome". Its when highly ranked kids think something is radically wrong when their sat scores are crappy because they are so "smart". News flash: it just means they are idiots who can only memorize stuff.</p>
<p>What you're describing to me sounds kind of like an "over-achiever" who cannot do anything but memorize mindless facts. Though she might have bragging rights after she gets a 100 on her social studies test, she does not have the same after a standardized test. She deserves some credit, but if she cannot think with some intellect, well...</p>