Analogies were the only things that actually test your intelligence.

I got 1430 out of 1600.

I'm glad that our SATs aren't anything like that. Over here, they're only good for a comparison between schools, which is worthless as it is.

Sometimes I wish I understood the American education system.

http://tsa.ucles.org.uk/full/index.htm

That's a test they give to Cambridge applicants: they average 63%.

I managed a 72% in 55 minutes of the 90 and was giving it a pretty good go. It didn't have my entire attention, as I was avoiding work at the time, but I still gave it a decent effort.

I got 530 verbal and 680 math... so 1210 on the SAT
I think I gpt 14 on the ACT
I bombed the SAT II

And you probably don't want to know my buddy Henry got a 1600/1600 on the SAT.

SAJN, I used to beat the crap out of the PSATs simply because they don't matter and there's no pressure. My first time on the SAT, I did ok, but 200 points lower than on the PSAT.

The SAT "matters," and the pressure is on to do well, and maybe also to match a PSAT score that everyone thought was great. Just work on it and try not to worry, once you get into college you'll never have to put that score on a form again.

Don't let it get to you. Some really good colleges will advertise a 1400 avg. SAT score among the students accepted. That was the case at my college but I know people that scored under 1200 and still got accepted. They aren't minorities either.

Just make sure you have plenty of extracurricular activities and a high HS GPA.

hs GPA: 3.456
SAT score: 1100
Collage GPA after freshmen year? : 3.755

I really never saw the grades people got in school as a measurement of how intelligent a person is.

A friend of my fathers dropped out of highschool, and he makes 18 million a year selling clothes people won't buy in America to people in much poorer countries.

Very true, a lot of millionares were not straight-A students. Rather, they got B and C grades on average, and some even dropped out. What this means is that our school system does not create success in and of itself. The things you learn on your own are what truly matter.

Our school system is designed to turn people into workers and lifelong employees instead of entrepreneurs and free-thinking businessmen. The people that are truly innovative and think outside of the box (and are thus more likely to become rich) tend to be penalized for not fitting into the system.

I believe that our school system is outdated and it should be scrapped in favour of something better and more relevant to the times.

Down with the system! ¡Viva la revolución!

*throws a Molotov cocktail at a random person*

One thing I've always thought was despicable, was the push they give for the college career.

College isn't for everyone, by any stretch. Also, they really sell it to impressionable people that going to college means you're going to sucede. The kids who chose another path like I did, we get treated like broken merchandice. And it's a total load of crap.

Just because I chose a technical field, doesn't mean you have to down on me. It really is a shame the school system has to down people like me who want to go into the work force, who have a talent, who have already cut their path.

I had a 1510 out of 1600, but it was the product of many, many hours of study and practice. I highly recommend that you spend whatever time is necessary to score well on the SAT because, no matter what you may hear, colleges see it as a very good indicator of whether you'll be successful in their school. Does it matter beyond the application process? Probably not. I'm at the end of my freshman year, and if someone came up to me on the street today and asked what my SAT II scores were, I probably wouldn't be able to tell them. I may well forget my SAT scores too in a couple years. But a high score is definitely a valuable asset when you're applying.

Our college advisor required us to take both the SAT and ACT twice. My final results were a 28 for the ACT, and if I recall for the SAT, it was 1180. The latter disappointed me, but then again I didn't study for anything, and math just killed me. Mathematics are definitely not my strong suit. The PSAT's gave me the general idea of what the test was like, and I wasn't about to study for a test such as this. If I couldn't perform on the fly, then I felt that I would cheating myself personally. So I took the tests, and in the end the results for the two times I took the tests were about the same when all was said and done. I'm just glad I got out before they instituted the essay portion. While I have no problems writing an essay in that setting, it kills my hand lol. You've been filling out bubbles for three hours, I don't think anyone feels like jotting down an essay. I don't know why, but I never took any SAT II's. I'm positive that I could have aced the history and english tests, but oh well it doesn't matter now. As for the importance of which particular test one should take, I've read that the ACT is the more prominent test in the Midwest, while the SAT hits up both of the coasts. I don't have any statistics offhand, but that is what I last heard.