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What did you score on the SAT? (And can you tutor?) - Page 2 — Brooklynian

What did you score on the SAT? (And can you tutor?)

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  • carnivore
    carnivore
    isla wrote: I have the time to help, but I took the ACT. I did very well on the ACT, but I am not sure how they compare.

    I think I did the SAT as a sophmore, but I cannot remember how I did.
    Usually people take the PSAT as a sophmore and the SAT as a junior or senior.

    BTW, did anyone here volunteer to tutor (the original point of the thread)?
  • alafairnadia
    alafairnadia
    isla wrote: I have the time to help, but I took the ACT. I did very well on the ACT, but I am not sure how they compare.

    I think I did the SAT as a sophmore, but I cannot remember how I did.
    the ACT is totally different. I mean, it's still a standardized test, but my recollection is that the educational philosophy behind the design of the test is different. the ACT tests a lot more actual knowledge than the SAT tests. pattern recognition and other such test taking tactics are not as useful for the ACT. I remember actually ENJOYING taking the ACT - it was like finishing a crossword puzzle or logic game. taking the SAT was always pure pain, and I took that test several times b/c of the tutoring I did.
  • escap
    escap
    ...this is quite the normal distribution we have developing. My stats professor would be proud.
  • emily
    emily
    rogersma wrote: When I took the SAT long ago I also needed to take a couple of the advanced placement tests, in physics and chemistry (where top score was also 800). But they made you buy three, no matter how many you wanted to take. So I decided to stick around and, as an experiment, take the Hebrew test. I'd grown up in the southern California high desert, and at that age I probably wasn't even sure who it was who spoke Hebrew. So I just tried to do pattern matching and guess-work, and ended up with a score in the mid-600s. Never trusted those SAT tests since.
    As Carnivore explained, these aren't AP tests. The Achievement tests (later called SAT II and subject tests) are pretty bogus and I think most schools don't care about them anymore (in terms of giving class credit for having scored well on them, for example). The AP tests are more legit, I think, since they require a lot of essay-writing in addition to a smaller number of multiple choice questions. When I took the Art History one, it required two long essays and about 10 shorter essays based on slides. Those were absolutely gruelling because you had such a short time for each of them that you really needed to be writing the entire time--not thinking or letting your hand rest. The others weren't as bad, but the whole program is really in a different category than the SATs, IMHO.
  • jamzer
    jamzer
    escap wrote:
    True, we brooklynians are uncommonly smart, apparently. :wink: However, it's also the case that around 1995 (give or take a year) the scoring was changed in a way that basically raised all scores. So an 1,100 in 1986 would be equivalent to a 1,200 or something like htat in 1996. Hopefully that'll help you sleep at night.
    Trust me - nothing that gets said on this board prevents me from having a good sleep. I just happen to think that people's memories of what happened 5, 10, 15, and 20 years ago gets cloudy. My first reaction to this survey was that I scored a 1200. I then remembered that that is what I had hoped I would score.

    As far as Carnivore's theory that the people on this board are just smarter than the average person.... I just have to say HA HA!
  • doctorj
    doctorj
    Jamzer wrote:
    As far as Carnivore's theory that the people on this board are just smarter than the average person.... I just have to say HA HA!
    No matter how much they lower the bar to getting online, the average regular internet user will continue to be smarter than the average person. People with severe mental handicaps or having suffered severe brain injuries, prison populations, and those not smart enough to learn to read or write are unlikely to hang out online.
  • 8thandprez
    8thandprez
    Drano wrote: What? No 1600's yet?
    I got a 1600, but I didn't want to make the rest of you feel bad, so I lowered it to 1500. :lol::lol:
  • pensodyssey
    pensodyssey
    doctorj wrote: [quote=Jamzer]
    As far as Carnivore's theory that the people on this board are just smarter than the average person.... I just have to say HA HA!
    No matter how much they lower the bar to getting online, the average regular internet user will continue to be smarter than the average person. People with severe mental handicaps or having suffered severe brain injuries, prison populations, and those not smart enough to learn to read or write are unlikely to hang out online.

    I'd agree with this, but then I read the proho terror thread, and it makes me wonder...
  • pulaski
    pulaski
    Wow! Who knew that I’d start such an interesting and fun discussion by posting a volunteer opportunity?

    I am the Director of Programs for Let’s Get Ready, the non-profit organizer of the SAT & College Prep program at ACORN Community High School (Grand and Bergen). I live in the Heights (Sterling & Flatbush).

    The average SAT score nationwide in 2005 was 1028. In 1994, before re-centering which raised scores by ~100 points, the average score was 910. According to this poll, Daily Heights posters are super-duper SAT test-takers!

    The average SAT score for NYC public high school students in 2005 was 915, and ACORN Community High School SAT scores fall slightly below the city average. Let’s Get Ready students on average increase their SAT scores by 103 points!

    Thank you so much for the terrific discussion. I got such a great kick out of it. You can learn more about Let’s Get Ready at www.letsgetready.org. Special thanks to Daily Heights for publicizing the LGR volunteer opportunities. You rock! If you cannot coach (7 week commitment) and are interested in receiving information about 1-time volunteer opportunities, sign-up at http://www.letsgetready.org/get_involved/ypn/index_html.

    Isla: The SAT changed in March 2005 and is now a lot more ACT-like. Send me a short email at [email protected], and I can email you details about coaching. It would be great to have you aboard! (And other Heights residents too!)

    Eric Neutuch
    Let’s Get Ready!
  • jamzer
    jamzer
    doctorj wrote: [quote=Jamzer]
    As far as Carnivore's theory that the people on this board are just smarter than the average person.... I just have to say HA HA!
    No matter how much they lower the bar to getting online, the average regular internet user will continue to be smarter than the average person. People with severe mental handicaps or having suffered severe brain injuries, prison populations, and those not smart enough to learn to read or write are unlikely to hang out online.

    Come on Doctor J ... doesn't a little part of you wonder how smart all of us are if we waste so much of our life engaged in discussions like this??? :-)
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