<p>i know what you mean, i got a lot of 800 verbals on practice tests yet never reached them on the real thing</p>
<p>actually, his motivation was really really stupid. yours i could understand...his was his sister had gotten a perfect score on the third try so he needed to match her. his other scores were in the 1550+ range.</p>
<p>haha that's messed up</p>
<p>wow i'm losing my domination</p>
<p>wow that is really stupid. if I tried to match up to everything my sister did then life would just be a chain of never ending disappointments :(</p>
<p>well not necessarily...did your sister get a 1600 like you?</p>
<p>That isnt the point- my sister didnt write the SAT because she didnt want to go to the US for an undergrad education unlike me.
My sister is an extremely high achiever in her own field and yeah my family would be very happy if I followed exactly in her footsteps but my sister and I are different people so trying to imitate her achievements would probably make me very miserable. I do my own thing and she does hers and we don't predicate our happiness on each other's activities/achievements :)</p>
<p>lol...but it's so fun to watch insanely competitive siblings try to top one another and basically act like clones.</p>
<p>enco the same exact thing happened to me....</p>