<p>i highly disagree with the above post, cramming vocab and memorizing lists helped my score significantly on verbal, and it helps many other people as well, so please, do not call it "useless."</p>
<p>PS. on the fact that you bring up reading, reading is something that you have done since you were a child, reading comprehension is more of a "know it or you don't" for verbal, one cannot suddenly gain what they missed for 14 years. This is espicially the case for minorities in general, 99% do not do well on verbal because of their lack of reading, you of course are one of those exceptions and it seems evident to me that your posts on this thread and the thread "the sat is racist against foreign students" you like to use your self as a minority that did read, etc, etc....you are just an exception, so please do not speak for minorities and people who do poorly on verbal in general. Sorry but i really had to get that out, your posts are way too fake.</p>
<p>"Cramming" for any test in general is a poor idea--there are better and more time-effective ways to prepare for the verbal section. Without wasting my time making vocab. notecards, I raised my verbal score from a 550 to a 750. </p>
<p>Yes, you're right, I am an exception amongst minorites (high verbal, lower math skills), as I was born in the United States and use English more than Hindi. Doing well on the verbal is all a matter of long-term exposure, and many ,typically low-income, minorities do poorly on that section b/c they attended bad schools, parents don't encourage them to read, they're not exposed to books, etc. I'd hardly say that 99% of minorities bombed the verbal section. And plus, I said that the ANALOGIES question, which will be eliminated on the New SAT, benefitted minorities, not the entire verbal section.</p>
<p>ah sorry, idk, i feel bad, my post was just out of a lil jealousy problem (iv been trying to raise my verbal with vocab cards, reading, etc etc, and it only increased from a 560 to 660, its not going past 660), sorry yaar, i shouldn't have posted with that attitude, forgive me =)</p>
<p>dont worry xindianx, the creator of this thread is trying to make himself feel better, thats y he created a thread with the renamed topic {by me} "Why does the SAT even matter" - "SATs does not matter". perhaps the creator od this thread got a bad SAT scores??!</p>
<p>sry, i accuatly put this post in the wrong thread. sry creator of this thread, u r inocent, lol. i m very sorry to every1</p>
<p>"Mensa thats all good and nice until you see how many people who get As on everything and 1500+. Are you really going to not admit a person because they got a 1580 instead of 1590?"</p>
<p>I wouldn't mind a concrete system. However, some changes would have to be made. The difficulty of tests would have to be stepped up - there are so many good scores on the SAT that one mistake can drop an otherwise brilliant student into "mediocrity" in this system. Assuming that the SAT was at a level where only a few kids would ever score remotely near to perfect, that would help distinguish the top kids much much better. (kind of like the old SAT, before the recentering.)</p>
<p>nicely said tetrahedr0n</p>
<p>you'd have to make the test longer too so you can have better differentiation among the middle 90th percentiles as well as the top 1%.</p>
<p>that's exactly the problem thought, collegeboard wants to make this a 'standardized test' but if any of u have taken for example the IOWA test or w/e its called, u kno wut i mean.... they're pretty much worthless, however, this is one of the few ways colleges can enroll people from all the candidates they get, althought imo its a really ****ty way for determining who gets in... also, collegeboard caters to California. moneyhounds..</p>
<p>I recently took a practice GRE (the "SAT" test for getting into grad school) and scored 800 on the Verbal and 790 on the Math (which is actually easier than the SAT math). It's too bad colleges don't accept GRE scores. The SAT is too easy to show how much smarter I am than most people in the SAT 1500-1600 range. Maybe I'll take the LSAT and go right to law school.</p>
<p>mensa, are you actually in mensa?</p>