| What were your S.A.T. scores?
Posted: 5/11/2007 3:47:42 PM | | I disagree that GPA has anything to do with intelligence one way or the other. I think a high GPA indicates ambition, organization, and willingness to do hard work, but that's it. I've known people who weren't so smart who got a good GPA because they worked hard at it, studying regularly, doing all their homework, etc. I've also known extremely intelligent people who barely passed because they never cracked their school books and never did homework and only went to class on test days (which they passed easily without ever reading the book or being in class), the good test scores were enough to squeak them by to passing but they couldn't completely overcome the effects of no homework and poor attendance. | |
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| What were your S.A.T. scores?
Posted: 5/11/2007 4:00:57 PM |
maybe you should be asking people if they use .... spell check
and howmany corrections they need in their posts.
I kind of doubt this is what the OP is up to, I checked her history and she has a few errors herself, not that it matters because we all do. Since my pea brain can pick up on these errors....
I am however curious about why the OP didn't post her own numbers. How about a reality check CG5000, what is up with this? | |
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| What were your S.A.T. scores?
Posted: 5/11/2007 4:01:46 PM | If I remember correctly my SAT score was around 1420 (on the old 1600 point scale)
I'm pretty sure my scores favored the math portion over the English portion, but I can't remember for sure or by how much.
My GPA in HS was something absurd like 4.89 or something. My high school gave a bonus for certain classes and I was extremely ambitious then.
My GPA in College ended up around 3.5 if I remember correctly. I really just didn't care as much about my grades by that point because my degree was a hobby, not a career. My career is Information Technology, my degree was in Psychology.
As for your college GPA indicating intelligence, or much of anything really, that is a load of bull. Even if you assumed all professors in all colleges were equally difficult, which is absurd, certain majors are without a doubt more difficult than others. If I had cared enough I could easily have gotten a 4.0 for all my psychology classes, but the Electrical engineering, Calculus, and computer science courses I took still gave me trouble when I did my level best.
If you want a good indicator of someone's intellect and personality, then get to know them, it should be pretty apparent within a meeting or two what kind of person they really are. | |
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| What were your S.A.T. scores?
Posted: 5/11/2007 5:12:15 PM | i scored a perfect 1600 on my S.A.T.'S..if you add up the 4 times i took them
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| What were your S.A.T. scores?
Posted: 5/11/2007 5:46:52 PM | On the 2400 scored SAT I got a 2030.
No books, no preparation, and only got about 4 hours of sleep.
My GPA in HS was about 2.75, while my current GPA is around 2.67.
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| What were your S.A.T. scores?
Posted: 5/11/2007 6:25:28 PM | I'm as dumb as a post and I had a GPA of 3.9, with a double honours in Microbiology/Immunology and Biochemistry. It doesn't mean anything.
Smartest person I've ever known didn't graduate from high school. | |
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| What were your S.A.T. scores?
Posted: 5/11/2007 7:27:01 PM | | I took them back in 1988, and got a 960. I scored higher on the math. I think if I took them now itd be an entirely different score!! I graduated with a 3.4 GPA. However I took Advanced Placement (AP) French and Music Theory, and scored 5 on both. | |
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| What were your S.A.T. scores?
Posted: 5/11/2007 7:47:34 PM | I wrote the GMAT before entering the MBA program and scored in the 94th percentile.
However, in the first-years statistics course, we correlated GPA with GMAT scores and found that there was no statistically significant relationship. In other words, good test scores do NOT translate to good grades.
So ... test scores are irrelevant. | |
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| What were your S.A.T. scores?
Posted: 5/11/2007 9:21:11 PM | My PSATs in the early 1970s were 1170. Never took the SAT, but did take CLEPs shortly therafter,which enabled to skip out on college Math classes for awhile. More recently took the GED, which resulted in my scoring w/in the top 95% percentile of men for Language.
Oddly enough, what was my academic strength 30-some years ago was my biggest deficiency w/this test, while what I scored so poorly on so many years ago has become a strength of mine ...according to the experts. As I've stated on another post in "Sex and Dating", I was obviously wrong for my spelling of "kegels", but I'm willing to stand 'further corrected' for how these are supposed to work IRL. | |
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| What were your S.A.T. scores?
Posted: 5/11/2007 10:53:17 PM | | I may be Canadian, but my mother initially wanted me to go to school in the States, so I took the tests... didn't do the ACT, but as I recall, I got 1440 on the SAT, and the three SAT II tests I did were all in the 710-730 range. They're not really a great indicator of intelligence, but if you do well they make for decent bragging rights. | |
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| What were your S.A.T. scores?
Posted: 5/12/2007 12:02:19 AM | Ahhh.........I skipped the SAT's (not that we have 'em in Canada) and
instead opted to take the "it's not what you know, it's who you know" approach
in life. Turns out that philosophy works somewhat. We have a few PHd's, BA's in
my office and a Biology major.....I want to move my ass up away from
those dudes. ;) Book smart, but not smart enough socially to surpass me....I never
finished college. :P
You have to be around the top 15% of your class to be hired by the elite....failing
that, it often times doesn't justify the expense of college. How many
PHd's does it take to prepare a Frapuccino at Starbucks?? LOL | |
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| What were your S.A.T. scores?
Posted: 5/12/2007 6:25:56 AM | 1400 in 1991 if I recall correctly. Think it was 700/700 verbal/math. Should have done better, but went drinking the night before got virtually no sleep and was pretty hungover at the time. Taking tests that way was always challenging. Makes me wonder how many questions I missed because I could barely see straight. 
SAT's are only helpful in terms of getting into a school, as for grades, even if there is a correlation to intelligence it's really rather meaningless as the issue of drive/ambition/work ethic and discipline come into play in school.
Someone very smart can coast through University, party until their brains bleed and still post up 3.0 to 4.0 GPA's. That's if they really want to post up a good GPA. I knew more than a few that couldn't even be bothered to do that much. They'd cram last minute, put in only a few hours, and get just enough into their brainpans to get a 2.5. I'd cram last minute, but at least put in a decent number of hours. 
That being said, GPA is pretty pointless as well. It's good for the first job interview, or Grad school entry (if that's what turns you on). Once you've been working for more than 2 years, nobody could give a flying fig about what your SAT's, GPA, or extra-curricular activities were.
In the end, we're measured by our accomplishments, whether they are financial, social, familial, cultural or scientific. At the end of the day nobody cares whether Einstein flunked 6th grade math or worked as a patent clerk, except those with a penchant for trivia. Nor should anyone care.
So celebrate your academic excellence/mediocrity/sub-par performance. It's part of what made you who you are.  | |
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| What were your S.A.T. scores?
Posted: 5/12/2007 6:49:25 AM | "I disagree that GPA has anything to do with intelligence one way or the other. I think a high GPA indicates ambition, organization, and willingness to do hard work, but that's it. I've known people who weren't so smart who got a good GPA because they worked hard at it, studying regularly, doing all their homework, etc. I've also known extremely intelligent people who barely passed because they never cracked their school books and never did homework and only went to class on test days (which they passed easily without ever reading the book or being in class), the good test scores were enough to squeak them by to passing but they couldn't completely overcome the effects of no homework and poor attendance."
I said GPA was a better indicator compared to the SATs and I stand by my point. I did not say it was the only indicator of intelligence. Many smart people like Einstein hardly did anything in school. But these people are very rare. Every drop out is not an Einstein. They are merely lazy people who most of the time end up working in MCDs.
As far as the homework doing is concerned, let me tell you this, you barely get any homework in college. Your test grades counts the highest. Especially in the sciences. I majored in biochemistry and molecular biology in undergrad and my tests grades and the finals mattered the most. My major did not assign me any homework and even if it did it was not graded. It was just for practice. So it was all up to you to whether do your homework or not. If you did, good for you. If you did not and you're not an intelligent person then you obviously are going to fail the test. But home work was not graded.
Ever wondered why students jump from the buildings when they know they have a low GPA (esp in engineering colleges)? This is why. It may not matter to you but it does greatly matter in the real world.
Homework grades as far as I'm concerned are only for high schoolers and that's why high school was so easy. It's a shock some people drop out. | |
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| What were your S.A.T. scores?
Posted: 5/12/2007 7:01:40 AM |
in the first-years statistics course we correlated GPA with GMAT scores and found that there was no statistically significant relationship. In other words, good test scores do NOT translate to good grades.
So ... test scores are irrelevant.
I think what you found was that GMAT and grades are not relevant to each other. Either can be relevant to something else. Should have taken the second year stats course.
SAT is designed to predict a student's success in college. That's it.
I got 660 verbal and 770 math on the 1600 scale. | |
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| What were your S.A.T. scores?
Posted: 5/12/2007 7:07:06 AM | GG500,
I am not sure what you are trying to learn from this SAT score survey, but keep in mind that not everyone takes the SAT. Some people take the ACT and it has more categories than simply math and language comprehension. The ACT also has science and history, or at least it did when I took it in 1993. I happened to make a 26 out of a 1-36 range as someone stated earlier. When getting out of the military I then took the SAT (1998) and I ended up with an 1218, although I do not recall the breakdown.
Also keep in mind that for a large part, standardized tests are not a very accurate detection of intelligence. It shouldn't be compared to an IQ test and is never used as one. You can be a genius with dyslexia and do poorly on a standardized test.
I should also mention that the scoring system is extremely different from the SAT to the ACT. On the SAT, you are not graded heavily on questions that you did not answer if you didn't complete the test. On the ACT however it makes a big difference when you do not finish a segment within the time alloted, so someone who is a slow reader who doesn't answer all of the questions can make a lower score than someone who does answer all of the questions even though their accuracy percentage within the questions answered may be the same. | |
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| What were your S.A.T. scores?
Posted: 5/12/2007 7:19:10 AM | Dianoor... is a rare combination of brains and beauty. In most societies beauty alone is enough to allow you to be successful, depending on how you gauge success. On the flip side so many brilliant people seems to have difficulty relating to people and thus limit their success in life. I think gauging your success in life is something to be more proud of than your IQ or SAT's.
On a side note, is marrying a wealthy man because your beautiful something to be proud of? Is that success? (depends who you talk to). Off on a tangent there.
No SAT tests in canada, but my IQ tests show that I qualify for MENSA (min 132). I'd never join. | |
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| What were your S.A.T. scores?
Posted: 5/12/2007 7:56:05 AM | Damn .... I thought MENSA was a 140 minimum ..... [now I could get in]
I guess like everything else these days.... they lowered their standards.
But like you I still wouldn't join... as Rodney Dangerfield said ...
I'd never join a club that would have me as a member.
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| What were your S.A.T. scores?
Posted: 5/12/2007 10:10:23 AM | | I never did take the S.A.T.'s as I got into college when I was a sophmore in high school thanks to a little program my state has going. At the same time I think the SAT's are a crock as you can take them as many times as you want. Its not a really good reflection of, well anything. Course I have the same problem with IQ tests as well. | |
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| What were your S.A.T. scores?
Posted: 5/12/2007 10:25:54 AM | I scored around 1400 but never went to college and dropped out of hs. I received a diploma a couple of years later in the mail though. I threw it away.
Being educated isn't the same thing as intelligence. The education system in the US prepares people to cheat and lie to reach their idiotic goals. | |
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| What were your S.A.T. scores?
Posted: 5/12/2007 12:16:37 PM |
Being educated isn't the same thing as intelligence. The education system in the US prepares people to cheat and lie to reach their idiotic goals.
Wow, talk about your sour grapes.
never went to college and dropped out of hs.
And how does this make you an expert in the US education system? | |
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| What were your S.A.T. scores?
Posted: 5/12/2007 12:54:57 PM |
As far as the homework doing is concerned, let me tell you this, you barely get any homework in college. Your test grades counts the highest. Especially in the sciences. I majored in biochemistry and molecular biology in undergrad and my tests grades and the finals mattered the most. My major did not assign me any homework and even if it did it was not graded. It was just for practice. So it was all up to you to whether do your homework or not. If you did, good for you. If you did not and you're not an intelligent person then you obviously are going to fail the test. But home work was not graded.
Sure, in the hard sciences homework isn't an issue, but what about subjects like history and english? Those are all about the papers, they might even be worth more then half of your grade. | |
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