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Other Topics => Completely Off-Topic => Topic started by: jessica73 on June 15, 2003, 11:53:50 am
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i took it 2 years ago and am taking it again later this year.
post your scores here.
650-verbal
480-math
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sat? like I sat on my chair?
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what is the sat ? i thought you were talking about satellite TV :oops:
Next year i will pass a TOEFL (Test Of English as a Foreign Language), if someone want to know :roll:
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I have satellite! haha
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The SAT is a aptitude test you take for colleges to decide if they want to accept you or not. its kinda like a IQ test i guess. the TOEFL is similar to it.
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that would be the S.A.Ts
being as I'm only 13, no I haven't taken the S.A.Ts
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The SAT is a aptitude test you take for colleges to decide if they want to accept you or not. its kinda like a IQ test i guess. the TOEFL is similar to it.
ok i see now thanks for the explaination
We have it in France too we call it "Brevet des collèges" unfortunatly i can't remember my results but i took it about 5 years ago it's very easy here
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it was kinda easy for me, i just hated sitting in a room for 3+ hours taking a test :p
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it was kinda easy for me, i just hated sitting in a room for 3+ hours taking a test :p
unfortunatly for you i think that at 17 year old you didn't live the worst part of you "exams life"
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Yep. About 18 years ago.
And ... I took the sat on a Sat.
I think that made the difference; my scores were pretty good.
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700 Math
660 Verbal
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570 v
580 m
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i really must remember to bring my calculator this time.. it killed me..
and now that i finished high school, i can actually try and study for the S.A.T.
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I took it.
I don't remember what I got though.
:)
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lol
I bet it was a high score
;)
we don't take SAT's here
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I took it.
I don't remember what I got though.
:)
almost everyone remembers what they got. :p
are you hiding something? *looks accusingly at jo*
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i bet it was high tho
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Maybe she doesn't want to embarrass you with her amazingly high score
She just doesn't want you to feel dumb
:P
Btw,
LOL nice edit
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:P my score was well above average for a 15 year old, thank you.
and it still is. only need a few more points to go to GA Tech. 8)
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LOL
good girl!
;)
I'm glad I don't have to take any tests anymore!!
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happy i'm out of school forever :)
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Next year i will pass a TOEFL (Test Of English as a Foreign Language), if someone want to know :roll:
English isn't a foreign language.
:?
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I took it.
I don't remember what I got though.
:)
almost everyone remembers what they got. :p
are you hiding something? *looks accusingly at jo*
yes, almost everyone does...
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English isn't a foreign language.
:?
i'm in France so in France english in a foreign language
i'm sorry i should have told you before :lol:
i didn't know that you can't read my location :wink:
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English isn't a foreign language.
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i'm in France so in France english in a foreign language
i'm sorry i should have told you before :lol:
i didn't know that you can't read my location :wink:
I can't read your location or your name
8O
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that's true my location is in my name too .... and my sig got the french flag
i didn't want to be mean, i was just joking :oops:
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We don't have SATs here... we get sth called "Selectividad" that everyone takes at the end of year 12, which added to the average marks you had at school the last 2 years, makes your average mark for uni. It's out of 10. You're tested in Spanish, Maths, History, English, Basque, Geography, & Economics (the last 2 change depending on the subjects you chose).
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Basque
this will always make me laugh :lol:
btw : sorry for that Nerea :?
We don't force people to learn Basque in french Pays Basque ( Pais vasco)
quiere tocar la guitar Manueeelllll OLé
i had to do it
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You know, the SAT's are the most biased crap tests EVER.
You throw me in front of an SAT and I'll run the score up all day. You throw me in a science or high level match class and I fall apart.
I'm horrible at memorization of eqations and complicated rules of physics and chemistry so why do I deserve to be considered smarter than someone who is great at memorization and mathematics but is bad at logic and word puzzles?
Even the "MATH" section of the SAT still panders to people bad at Math because it's hard for them to assume specific knowledge of equations and what not.
I know too many people who have done exceptionally well on standardized tests but seem to be unable to take care of themselves on a daily basis. Why do we still classify this as smart?
It's just bad.
---Andrew
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well Andrew
while reading you i feel like this SAT test is useless...
How old is this test ?
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well Andrew
while reading you i feel like this SAT test is useless...
How old is this test ?
It's been around for like 20 years. But it changes every year. They keep the basic format the same though.
Really, it just rewards people who can concentrate, relax and take their time filling out answers and not people who are actually smart.
---Andrew
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Basque
this will always make me laugh :lol:
btw : sorry for that Nerea :?
We don't force people to learn Basque in french Pays Basque ( Pais vasco)
quiere tocar la guitar Manueeelllll OLé
i had to do it
:P it's ok. I am not too keen on Basque anyway... it was one of the toughest subjects. Luckily, since I came back from spending a year in England I didn't have to study it anymore (that's the last 5 years of school!), so I wasn't tested on that subject in Selectividad, very very lucky hehe Unfortunately, most of my friends had to study it (except for the ones, who like me, had spent a year abroad) and I felt most sorry for them. Our crappy Basque autonomist government's fault (omg did I just write "our"? 8O )... they make us study useless languages when we could be studying anything else, 100x more useful
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You know, the SAT's are the most biased crap tests EVER.
You throw me in front of an SAT and I'll run the score up all day. You throw me in a science or high level match class and I fall apart.
I'm horrible at memorization of eqations and complicated rules of physics and chemistry so why do I deserve to be considered smarter than someone who is great at memorization and mathematics but is bad at logic and word puzzles?
Even the "MATH" section of the SAT still panders to people bad at Math because it's hard for them to assume specific knowledge of equations and what not.
I know too many people who have done exceptionally well on standardized tests but seem to be unable to take care of themselves on a daily basis. Why do we still classify this as smart?
It's just bad.
---Andrew
The SAT is valuable because, as you said, it's standardized. It's become a de facto standard - almost every college uses it - that allows quick and dirty comparisons between students from all over the country and isn't subject to local issues like differences in grading scales from school-to-school, etc.
I would say that's all it's designed for, not for measuring true intelligence - and in my experience it does it's job fairly well - most people i know have gotten around the score they "deserved."
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I would say that's all it's designed for, not for measuring true intelligence - and in my experience it does it's job fairly well - most people i know have gotten around the score they "deserved."
I would disagree. Some of my closest friends scored very high, did very well in college, but career wise are miserable failures because they have no drive or motivation or ability to interact with people intelligently on a daily basis. They are great problem solvers when they get to sit down and analyze something, but they can't think on their feet to save their lives.
I also know a lot of people who scored too low for their relative sucesses and contributions to society.
Really, thats closer to how I define intelligence. A person's ability to contribute something of value to society.
I know VERY few people that i would say got what they deserved on the SAT.
---Andrew
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what is the sat ? i thought you were talking about satellite TV :oops:
Next year i will pass a TOEFL (Test Of English as a Foreign Language), if someone want to know :roll:
yeah I know that test...I've helped people out for that test......TOEFL
my SAT was like 12 years or so....I didn't care so much for it....I wasn't college bound at that time....
tylor