<p>I have a feeling that with this new version of the SAT, we will lose touch in our search for smart people. </p>
<p>Would you want to be good at grammar or math if you could pick just one to be good in?</p>
<p>huh???????</p>
<p>The first sentence you stated.... not sure what you are saying</p>
<p>However, I'd rather be good at math than grammar, only because I like math more.</p>
<p>^ sorry. I should explain myself. I scored in the 99.991th percentile when I took the SAT in 1994. So I tend to make these connections that are kind of hard for some people to see. There was a really good vision in 1980's of the view of intelligence at the time, and because of politics, that view is shifting. </p>
<p>Most SAT educators disagree with the tendency of the SAT lately to stray from measuring true intelligence.</p>
<p>"I scored in the 99.991th percentile when I took the SAT in 1994. So I tend to make these connections that are kind of hard for some people to see."</p>
<p>all hail thy egotistical CC SAT genius...
you realize that the SAT doesn't measure one spec of intelligence, which is the main reason why the UC head almost totally cut it off as a requirement.</p>
<p>Yeah. But the funny thing is that my SAT score correlated with IQ was the exact same as my IQ on the Stanford Binet test. Also, the SAT College Board purposey threw out verbal logic questions that Blacks did better than Whites in. Whats up with that? can someone say mentally sick? </p>
<p>Honestly, my bad if I sounded arrogant. But for investment banking, the recruiting process had a very heavy weighting for the SAT even after college. I just think to assume that grammar is anywhere near as important as math is so absurd, I just see future buildings, bridges, cars, technology in America falling apart to a third world country status, that its getting harder and harder to ignore.</p>
<p>Society shapes and molds around the rules you set up. And I just see the rules today leading our society to disaster.</p>
<p>Corellation does not imply causation :P</p>
<p>Yes I see math guiding us into the future. However, basic grammatical skills are also of importance. (For communicative purposes)</p>
<p>^ Like I said, I just don't see the purpose of it being equally weighted with Math. </p>
<p>Its like giving the same weighting to two skill sets. One being the ability to predict the future or inductive reasoning, vs. the ability to read a map. Sure its important to read a map, but its not that important of a skill set in life.</p>
<p>"Corellation does not imply causation"</p>
<p>haha, hey i remember reading that in Barron's: AP Psych!</p>
<p>"I scored in the 99.991th percentile when I took the SAT in 1994. So I tend to make these connections that are kind of hard for some people to see."</p>
<p>Indeed you do. Can you explain what is the correlation between your SAT score and your ability to make logical connections?</p>
<p>Also, just FYI, the SAT is not an intelligence test. Until March 2005, it was an aptitude test. Now it's an aptitude/subject test.</p>
<p>Actually, back then, there was a correlation between SAT and IQ.</p>
<p>Now that the test is 2/3 verbal, 1/3 math...if for some reason you had to choose which one to be stronger at, verbal.</p>
<p>"I scored in the 99.991th percentile when I took the SAT in 1994. So I tend to make these connections that are kind of hard for some people to see."</p>
<p>Are you implying that your lack of logic and good grammar is due to the fact that your SAT score was so high? Huh...in that case I'd rather do poorly on all sections of the test.</p>
<p>Wow. This is the most egotistical and misinformed post I have ever read on any board. West Sidee, man, get a life.</p>
<p>"Yeah. But the funny thing is that my SAT score correlated with IQ was the exact same as my IQ on the Stanford Binet test. Also, the SAT College Board purposey threw out verbal logic questions that Blacks did better than Whites in. Whats up with that? can someone say mentally sick? "</p>
<p>you make me sick with your condescending, elitist attitude. </p>
<p>you took the SATs 11 years ago, what does it matter to you what they do to the SATs now?
Sounds like you are just afraid now when you drop your SAT scores people won't gaga over your 'high intelligence' and you won't get that ego message you want.</p>
<p>West Sidee: There are three sections Math, Grammar and VERBAL. I choose Verbal why in the world would you prefer to be better at basic algebra?????</p>
<p>I don't understand why it has to be one or the other. Both math and good writing skills are needed to succeed in this world.</p>
<p>I can tell you that both student and teacher writing are horrible! Many teachers fail National Board Teacher Certification because of their poor writing and grammar habits. If student essays were judged on grammar instead of content, many would fail as well.</p>
<p>"I should explain myself. I scored in the 99.991th percentile when I took the SAT in 1994. So I tend to make these connections that are kind of hard for some people to see"</p>
<p>That was completely unnecessary. No matter how high your SAT score is it will not make up for what you seem to lack in personality.
a. THE REASON NO ONE COULD FIGURE OUT WHAT YOU WERE SAYING IS BECAUSE YOU WRITE IN A HORRIBLY UNCLEAR, VAGUE AND ELEMENTARY MANNER...
b. You are too old to be on this site anyway (unless you are a parent of a high school teen at the age of 27 or 28--- which I highly doubt)
c. Why are you bragging? Do you have something to prove? For someone in their late twenties you seriously lack in maturity</p>
<p>not sur ehwat hte point of this post is. But I'd rather be good at math
than grammar. for grammar, you just memorize a small set of very easy rules. To be truly good at math takes reasoning skills that are a lot more.... difficult to attain.</p>