Sad, sad SAT scores

<p>This does not concern the SAT, but it does have to do with top-ranked students with bad test scores: The valedictorian of my class (so far, it may change senior year) got a 22 on her ACT. She retook and is praying for a 25 this time around. She is a nice girl who works her but off at school, but she sure can’t take tests. (She has had every math class our school offers –through AP Calculus- and still got a 23 in math.)</p>

<p>If you work really hard and perform very well academically, what is the excuse for low test scores? Hmm....a touchy issue, i have an opinion, but...</p>

<p>I opened this topic expecting a "OMG I got a 2100/2400. My life is over. I'm contemplating suicide--someone comfort me."</p>

<p>Lol I love CC.</p>

<p>a girl in the top 5% of my school scored a combined writing, reading, and math score of 93 on the PSATs... yeah and we just finished junior year..</p>

<p>The one thing I don't understand about valedvictorians and other highly ranked students who do poorly on the SAT is that the test is very coachable. If you work that hard in school, you should be able to work through practice tests and earn a respectable score. I think some people do not realize how much you can significantly improve a SAT score by just doing some practice tests.</p>

<p>Anything above a 1300 is great at our school.
The valedictorian this year had about a 1300-1350. Some didn't break 1000.</p>

<p>Some people just can't take standardized tests. I'm ranked in the top ten kids of the school, and I got a 2160, which was the highest score in the school. I mean, there are kids ranked higher than I am who received 1650's and 1700's, and they were happy. It doesn't make them any less intelligent. Some people just freeze up with standardized tests. The test IS coachable, but a lot of people just don't understand that.</p>

<p>i overheard someone who got a 1500 on the new SAT. kinda funny, cuz that is EXACTLY average right?</p>

<p>Enough of this quasi-PC stuff...low scores are bad! you should face it! Decently smart people who put in effort can get good scores. People who come to the test stoned and circle "C" for everythnig get 690's. I feel that I can laugh at that, because I've seen it happen and yes, I laugh heartily.</p>

<p>You can be smart and get a bad score...but to get a good score, you kinda have to be smart :-/</p>

<p>iono but i go 1600 first time i took sat i was dissapointed</p>

<p>I met someone who scored a 13 on the ACT.</p>

<p>my friend got a 1500 new :0</p>

<p>A lot of this is sad stuff, but as long as you don't know the person, it is like shaudenfraude (ugly spelling) all the way!</p>

<p>I got a 1920 and I was pretty happy with that, but I know a girl who got a 2290 and took it again! 2350 this time around :P Everyone was so ****ed that she took it again, damned perfectionist</p>

<p>People from my school mostly take the ACT--and mostly do very very badly. I saw a score sheet from a class a couple years ahead of mine, listing everyone's score. There were some single digit scores, i think the lowest was a 7. I thought guessing on all of them would get you a 12 or 14 or something. People at my school are mostly happy with anything over a 20.</p>

<p>I was the valedictorian of my high school (550 seniors) and I only got a 1310 on the "old" SAT. When I retook the "old" SAT, I got 1310 again.
Luckily, the score was high enough to get me inducted into the 1300's club. :)
Does anyone know what the new club will be called? The 1950 club?</p>

<p>One of my closest friends scored a 1200 on the new SAT, he told me that as he ran out of time, he randomly guessed the last ten questions of each section.</p>

<p>The lowest score I have heard someone at my school (a public exam school) getting was in the 1300s (new).</p>

<p>I got an 1830 as a Freshman, how is that? Sad too? :(</p>