<p>I hate how just because I have a life I'm not going to be in the top 10 people, but I'm probably smarter than the majority of them.</p>
<p>they're really smart people at my school, but they work harder than I do too. I mean I might miss a couple homework assignments, and maybe I get an A- on a test because I didn't have time to study 2 hours for it, but it doesn't mean I'm not smart</p>
<p>There was this kid who was ranked like 120 I knew, and he said, "That means there are 119 people smarter than me, that's not so bad when theirs 690 in the class."</p>
<p>I told him grades didn't measure intelligence and that I couldn't believe he said that.</p>
<p>school makes it seem that way sometimes. Like #1 is seen as smarter than #464, but truthfully, some of the smartest people I know make up the last 50 people in my class.</p>
<p>My best friend when I was in California scored 99th percentile in the CAT6 state standardized tests in several subjects as did I.</p>
<p>We took a biology test one day, I got a 101, he got a 104.</p>
<p>I had a 3.5 GPA that year, he had a 1.5 and was kicked out of the school.</p>
<p>How do your schools measure GPA? If you get straight A's in weighted classes in my school thats an automatic 4.0. Is it like that in other schools?</p>
<p>One of my good friends, is ranked about 400/464. She's better than me at almost every subject, but doesn't like the monotony of math homework, or any other subject, but she is so much smarter than the top ten I can tell.</p>
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<p>but the fact that they're in the "top 10" doesn't necessarily mean that they spend all their free time studying and "don't have lives". my school doesn't rank, at least not to my knowledge, but i'm pretty sure that if it did i'd be in the top 10%. i have a social life and various extracurriculars and good grades. i spend virtually no time working, and i don't study for tests. i'm in an academically rigorous pre-ib program at a well-regarded private school.</p>
<p>i'm not saying everyone can do this, but please give some credit to the ones who do.</p>
<p>we're talking about the people who make up the top ten students, not %. And if your school is easy enough where they can take 5 AP's and have a life outside of school and EC's, than it's the exception. Even at my average school, it's not possible to take so many hard classes and not spend all your time on or at school</p>
<p>fair enough ... although in my grade the top 10% is five students, so it honestly doesn't make a difference. i don't think it's because the school is necessarily easy, only that until now i've managed to work efficiently enough to balance life and academia. some people are just fast learners; others need more time to absorb facts. it depends on the individual. what i objected to was the generalization that all top students have no life outside of school, because that's simply not true.</p>
<p>It is honestly true at my school. The top ten students are all nerds, I know them.</p>
<p>I think I'll end up like #50</p>
<p>Our top ten students are as interesting as they are intelligent. Almost all of them have active social lives and all of them are great kids.</p>
<p>Glad there are some normal ones out there. Can't say much for my school.</p>
<p>i'm taking it march 12th..looking for a 2100+, current scoring range is from 1950-2050...hopefully this week's last push on writing will help increase my score...(on my last diag. i scored 770m, 600v, 600w) hopefully i can kick the writing up to 700.</p>
<p>Yeah I took a practice test from Kaplan's book yesterday...wow...not very good. I'm worried about all of the sections, especially math. For some reason I seem to make more dumb mistakes on the new SAT math moreso than old SAT math. </p>
<p>BTW as far as class ranks go, I think GPA is more the product of work ethic than pure intelligence (although a combination of the two sure wouldn't hurt). There are plenty of people with poor work ethic, or who just don't care, but are extremely intelligent. They frequently do well in life despite not doing so well in school.</p>
<p>hey guys, I need some help here
Official SAT Math question
Page 657, Q 15, Acme Plumbing Co question -Talk me through to the answer 24.
Thanks a million.</p>
<p>i don't have the book. care to post the question?</p>
<p>Sure- The Acme Plumbing Co will send a team of 3 plumbers to work on a certain job. The co . has four experienced plumbers and four trainees. If a team consists of 1 experienced plumber and two trainees, how many different such teams are possible?</p>
<p>The first one I got wrong!</p>
<p>oh noo i've forgotten most of my probability... is 8 the right answer?</p>
<p>Book says 24 is the right answer, I got 48</p>