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Thread: SAT's have become a bit simple, haven't they?

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    i hope not haha i took mine last year, i still need my score to be worth something

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    When do you take the SAT? Is it only in the US?
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    I never took the SAT.
    I took the ACT.
    Got a 31 on it too.
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    Frenzied Member Acidic's Avatar
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    in the UK SATs are something 13 year olds take. But it's not compulsory, so I never did.
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    Originally posted by Memnoch1207
    I never took the SAT.
    I took the ACT.
    Got a 31 on it too.
    i never had to take the ACT's becaues none of the schools i applied to needed them, my girlfriend had to though. They have different subjects right?

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    What the hell does bellicose mean? Is it like sugar or something?

    I never did sats either, only the people on the other side of the big round window did that. I had to watch the Tellytubbies instead while swallowing some nasty medicine.
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    Ok are the SAT's in the UK differnet from the SAT's in the US? I mean are they given to people at differnet ages? Because I know while ago they wanted to give SAT's to kids in year 3 or something silly like that.

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    Originally posted by SteveCRM
    i never had to take the ACT's becaues none of the schools i applied to needed them, my girlfriend had to though. They have different subjects right?
    I'm not sure. I know they covered stuff like Math, Reading Comprehension, etc...

    Funny thing is...I had horrible grades in High School (like a 1.2 GPA). I wanted to study architecture, so I went to UMKC (University of Missouri - Kansas City) and applied for their architecture program, which only accepts 30 students a year.
    They saw my high school transcripts and about laughed me out of the admissions office. They said I had to take the ACT test anyway as an admission requirement, but it wasn't likely that I would get into the architecture program with my past grades.
    So I took the ACT test, scored a 31 on it (out of 36) national average is like 19 or 21.

    Well apparently by school or state or national standards (I don't know which) A score of 26 or higher will allow a student to be automatically accepted into any limited selection program.

    So although I had horrible high school transcripts, I was automatically accepted into the architecture program, because of my ACT score.

    And here I am a Software Developer for a company that creates banking software....

    wait...how did I go from architecture to computer programming???
    I must have taken a wrong turn somewhere.

    Oh yeah, I remember now. I wanted to be an architect to design upscale homes, but then I was introduced (through an internship) that architects don't really do that anymore. The contractors pretty much design the houses now.
    Architects do more of the commercial area of design.

    I just couldn't see myself designing Burger Kings for the rest of my life!

    So I took my associates in Engineering and transferred to computers.

    Not that I have anything against Burger King!
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    i just took the SATs today actualy. Those questions are defenitly examples of the easier SATs questions. especially those anologies

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    I got all 5 on that test, and 26 on my ACTs. Never took the SAT.
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    apparently the SAT's are changing soon. My little sisters class will be the first to have the new SAT's (she's 8th grade now, 9th grade in the fall). They'll have 3 sections, 2400 points overall instead of 1600. Writing i think is being added

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    I dont think that was representative, although i've never taken SATs. I got 5 on that one, rather easily.
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    well the whole test is curved. So the grading is always different

    for example I got 3 wrong on the math (we won't talk about verbal haha) out of about 55, but I got a 720.

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