<p>My son took the SAT through the Duke TIP when he was 12. This was before they added writing and he scored right around 1100. He only took the SAT one more time, in his junior, and did quite well. No test prep classes or anything. I would suggest that the best way to improve your son’s scores is to have him read all that interests him. He is already in advanced classes in school, that should be enough at his age.</p>
<p>I’m 11 years old, in 7th grade. I took the SAT. I studied for CR because I wanted to get into CTY program. I did not study for math at all. In CR I got 600, I got 480 for math. I guess it’s normal. I got 560 for writing. What really makes me feel good is I got 8 for essay, while everyone in my family thought I could at most get 4 or 6. </p>
<p>I think if you have a goal, you study for it. otherwise, you just go there to see what you can get, like my math. Next time I’ll study for math and I’m sure as my school covers more and if I study for it I can do much better.</p>
<p>Maybe not as ridiculous as it may seem… There are in fact 12 and 13 years old who scored very decently on SAT (top 1% and even better). I believe that if a student at such an age is capable of doing so well and is motivated enough, it would be a waste of potential not to make it possible for him or her to pursue academic career on advanced basis. You might want to read about SMPY, the study about students who took SAT before the age of 13 and scored in the top 1%. Otherwise, of course, there is no point in letting a child take SAT when the child is no genius like in this case…</p>
<p>Only because this is collegeconfidential do I wonder whether this is real or fake.</p>
<p>That’s a little scary that he took the test, but I’d consider that a strong score. He should be proud of that, just make sure you don’t burn him out.</p>
<p>ridiculous. parents need to remember that their children are not defined by high standardized testing scores and that their childhood should not be centered around preparing for SAT’s. No good can come of this. If you are a 12 year old on this website not by mistake, turn off your computer and go outside and play in the snow. or climb a tree. There is more to life than college prep.</p>
<p>i got a 1570 when i took it in 7th grade…if that helps, and mine has gone up 600+ points during my junior year with minimal outside help (official SAT prep book FTW!) so dont stress your kid out</p>
<p>Wait so that Johns Hopkins test I took in 5th grade for the gifted and talented was really the SAT? DAMN, I knew people in the room looked older than me. This is not a ■■■■■, I’m being dead serious…</p>
<p>amen hungryhippo.</p>
<p>When I was in 6th grade, 11 y.o., I took it. I got about a 500 on each section, a little higher on “Verbal” (now CR, with some of the W stuff) and a little lower on M, for a 1070. I liked studying for it. I even did practice tests, in real time, up in my room with the door closed. I read SAT books.</p>
<p>I have no idea why some people are so intense about 7th graders taking the SAT. You spent 3 hours taking it one Saturday. it doesn’t ruin your innocence or take away your childhood.</p>
<p>Duke TiP offered it to a bunch of kids at my school (this was back when it was just CR and M though), and if I remember correctly, the average was around a 500 on each section. But I wouldn’t stress out about the scores - he’ll learn a lot before he takes the test again.
I didn’t take it in 7th grade (not gonna lie, I lost the application form thing lol! I didn’t think it was a big deal at the time, but looking back, I should’ve jumped on the opportunity to take the SAT for free).
The first practice SAT I took, before studying, was in 9th grade, and I got like 600s on my sections. My first real SAT (after a month of studying or so, I still wasn’t very serious about it), I managed to bring everything up to over 700. And I didn’t need to take the real SAT 10 gajillion times. Don’t make your son take it every year. It’s not fun, and it’s a waste of money. Just get a book of practice tests and leave it at that.</p>
<p>tigerlilly176, your son’s score will rise automatically with no SAT preparation, just normal academic work, between now and junior year. Normally, you could expect to see score increases somewhere between 50 to 100 points per section per year, based on additional academic preparation and more intellectual maturity. So he is likely to do quite well, when the time comes. You might have him spend some extra time reading books in his interest areas. Students who take the SAT every year tend to get sick of it, especially with all of the other standardized testing going on each year.</p>
<p>Your son’s score of 1170 is really quite poor. When I was 11, which was when I took the SAT the first time for CTY (I’m young for my year), I scored a 1650 or so, but I know people (people I met during the camp) who scored in the 1800s by then already.</p>
<p>A score of 1170, with 510 Math, is “really quite poor” only on CC. To qualify for the special programs in mathematics offered by the Center for Talented Youth (run by Johns Hopkins), a student in 7th grade needs a score of 580 M. To qualify for a regional program I checked, a student in 7th grade needs a score of 540 M. (If the OP’s son is in 6th grade, the qualification is handled with a different test.) Johns Hopkins offers a CAA progam to the top 2% of young students, with a qualifying score of 430 M in 7th grade.</p>
<p>If your son was participating in a Talent Search, he should receive detailed feedback that will give his percentile relative to the entire set of students who took the SAT at his grade level. This would be the most reliable way to tell where your son stands at present. (Note: this will be relative to the students who already took the SAT! There is not a direct correspondence to the top x% of 7th graders, but you can think of his placement relative to this group as a placement roughly within the top 5%. So an '“average” score for this group would put a student approximately in the top 2.5%.)</p>
<p>A few students do score above 700 M in 7th grade. Because the SAT now covers Algebra II in the math section as well as geometry, I think those are usually students who have been accelerated beyond the typical 1 or 2 year acceleration offered to gifted students in most middle schools. (The acceleration might be at home, or online, or at a school that offers wide open course choices, or by focused preparation.)</p>
<p>I don’t think anyone’s saying that a 510 M is “really quite poor” for a 7th grader, iPacman was probably referring to the 300 writing and 360 CR. If the thread creator’s son had gotten a 330 on each section, his total would’ve been under 1000, which is “really quite poor”, even for a 7th grader. You’ve learned a lot by 7th grade; I really think people underestimate middle schoolers. So yeah, she doesn’t need to be worried about her son, he wasn’t really that close to qualifying for any decent talent search. Not to be mean, just putting it out there.</p>
<p>1170/2400 is pretty good for a 12 year old but I would just let him be a kid for now. He has time to study in a few years for the SAT!</p>
<p>Its an alright score. I got a 2100 when I was 12, but I was homeschooled then.</p>
<p>^ you are a true genious…</p>
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yeah you’re a true genious. If later in your life you don’t get nobel prize, you have only you own laziness to blame.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.tip.duke.edu/talent_searches/grade_7/7GTSResultsSummary.pdf[/url]”>http://www.tip.duke.edu/talent_searches/grade_7/7GTSResultsSummary.pdf</a></p>
<p>You can see the averages for the students tested here. Keep in mind that it is usually the top 5% or so of students who are tested so you are looking at the “average” for kids who are already at the “top”.</p>
<p>On page three of the report you will see specific recommendations based on score. I think you’ll find at the level you are talking about the main recommendation is just keep doing what you are doing. The scores will automatically go up as the student is exposed to high school level concepts as they progress through curriculum so please don’t worry about test prep.</p>