<p>Hey fellow CCers. This is just a thread I came up with today and would love to see this thread explode with responses. In the comments below, feel free to share ANY experiences with the SAT, either negative or positive.
For example:
What was your reaction when obtaining your dream score?
Funniest moment while taking the SAT?
Is the SAT too arduous for you and why?</p>
<p>I would be more than happy to read your response. Furthermore, if you feel that this thread sparks an interest in you feel free to bump the thread to keep it alive.</p>
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<li><p>What was your reaction when obtaining your dream score?
Woke up at 5:00am, checked collegeboard, saw a 2180, swore, kicked my desk, went back to sleep.</p></li>
<li><p>Funniest moment while taking the SAT?
Bubbling in answers.</p></li>
<li><p>Is the SAT too arduous for you and why?
I don’t know what that means.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Arduous- requiring great effort usually too tiring and prolonged.</p>
<p>Hahaha I could just imagine that scene. Also, the 3 questions are just example questions. Feel free to elaborate on anything related to the SAT.</p>
<ol>
<li>My dream score is a 2500. Yes, I know.</li>
<li>“Funny SAT Moment” is an oxymoron.</li>
<li>I’m not going to complain- as crazy as it seems, it could be much worse.</li>
</ol>
<p>I know what the word arduous means, but your 3rd question has no meaning. I’m not sure what “too arduous” means. I did hand the test in and get a score back, so I was capable of finishing it haha.</p>
<p>@orion222 ohh, these are just example questions i thought of off the top of my head. maybe i am just a pety junior who doesn’t know what he’s talking about. ;o</p>
<p>I actually have a funny SAT story for you. I was so irritated by my January SAT score (which was 40 points lower than that of December despite my getting 5 more questions right) that I’m writing it again in June even though I’ll have no use for it because I’m a transfer student! Hopefully I do better haha</p>
<p>Here is my daughter’s story:
At her first SAT test, her watch all of sudden started beeping for no reason in the middle of a session. She was threaten to have score voided while they told her to continue the test. At the end, they did not take any action but that has certainly ruined her test. She ended up getting 250 below expectation. After her second attempt in March, she was so happy with the performance and checked the answer here. She was expecting the score to be at least around her average practice score. She was so excited to check the score in the morning but the website was overloaded. Finally, she checked her score at school and found it to be 80 below her average. She was so upset while her friends were celebrating for their scores. She almost cried out at school. Then she got home and received her first ACT score from March (taken in the same week). It was among her top scores in practice and she was so happy about it. She experienced her most extreme feelings within 8 hours in her life.</p>
<p>I’ve taken it twice and I got a 1240 the first time. It wasn’t my best so I took it again a couple months later, I was 10 points above my previous score which was barely anything at all. I don’t know if I am able to take it again but I hope I can.</p>
<p>^1240 with all three sections? If so, work hard to improve! That’s barely above 50%! Yikes!</p>
<p>@billcsho haha what a wonderful mix of emotions. I’ll share a story about my ACT Experience similar to your daughter’s watch experience. So on a provided county wide ACT testing, all juniors were required to take the ACT. On that day I found out that I was testing with my dreaded Physics teacher who I think hated me before this incident. So when taking the test on the FIRST portion of the ACT I had like 2 questions left with nearly a couple seconds to finish. I quickly guessed on the last two as my “proctor” called time. Take into consideration that my physics teacher was walking up and down the aisles to check on our progress and make sure we were not cheating during the test. Then while working on the math section, my teacher comes up to me and points at the last two questions of the last section and tells me to erase them because he thought I had worked in the past section when e was not looking. Threatening to invalidate my test, I complied with his request and he had wasted like 3 minutes of my time while making a nerve wrecking scene. So I guess out of pure anger I was unable to get back into concentration until the last section (science). I look back and really question the integrity of some teachers.</p>