How did your parents do on the SAT?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>Just out of curiosity, How do your scores correlate with your parents (if they remember their scores and are truthful about them). Did you do better than your parents? </p>

<p>I showed my parents some of the math questions on a practice test, and they had no idea what any of it meant. </p>

<p>Right now I have a 1340/1600 (we might as well only include math and cr) </p>

<p>My parents both claim they got around 1050 or so (they aren't really sure though) and that back then "nobody" really cared about the test like they do today.</p>

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<p>Me: 800 M 780 CR —> 1580/1600
Dad: 1590/1600 (and will never let me forget it)</p>

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<p>^haha so close</p>

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<p>They never took it…and are angry at me for my scores :(</p>

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<p>your last statement is true. my dad said that too. he said he got 1400 something out of 1600, self study</p>

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<p>Me: 2400
Mom: Didn’t take
Dad: ~1250/1600</p>

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<p>My parents don’t remember</p>

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<p>me 2900 parents both 3000^999999
so they beat me fair and square</p>

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<p>Neither of my parents took it (being from Asia) and yet berated me when I took it and got around 1600/2400 in 7TH GRADE. Boo.</p>

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<p>The scale doesn’t go that high.</p>

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<p>hmm idk i think they both scored around 1000.
I’m at 1410/1600 right now. Improvement? Yes. Good enough? No…</p>

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<p>^^ That’s what they want you to think!</p>

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<p>I think he was joking…</p>

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<p>Don’t forget that the SAT was recentered several times since your parents took it. So when comparing scores you need to adjust for the recentering.</p>

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<p>^^ Are you quoting/talking to yourself? I’m confused.</p>

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<p>It sure seems like it. :slight_smile: Weird…</p>

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<p>@silverturtle
As was I, thus the sarcastic italics! Silverturtle for someone with a 2400 you sure do have a hard time understanding sarcasm on the internet…</p>

<p>On an unrelated note, glad to see you are back into the infernal pit of procrastination that we oh so lovingly dub HSL.</p>

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<p>I was afraid that the intended humor of my initial obvious comment did not carry well, so I followed it up.</p>

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<p>I know that my father scored around a 1500. Probably higher in math while I was higher in CR/Verbal. </p>

<p>Don’t remember what my mother scored, but it was lower than my score. She was, in her words, a mediocre HS student, which is why I think it’s funny that she’s the Ivy grad (transfer student) and my father, the valedictorian and senior class president, is not.</p>

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<p>…Unless your noting my failure to see the sarcasm was itself sarcastic, in which case it shouldn’t have been sarcastic. Hmm.</p>