Boy, 13, Scores Perfect 1600 on SAT

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<p>Wow, that’s pretty impressive. I know there are many gifted and smart people in CC, anybody not impressived and have done something similar to him or even better?</p>

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<p>One of my good friends did it at 12 and is the youngest in the nation to do so</p>

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<p>OMG, how do you that!!! i am sooooooooo impressed!!! :eek:</p>

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<p>OK I AM MAD, LOL. i am impressed. i wanna score 1600 now.</p>

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<p>Damn, now I feel stupid.</p>

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<p>some junior in my area got a 1600 too.</p>

<p>they dont even have to take it, they just take it for fun or something, and they make all us seniors who retake it alot and still get crappy scores look stupid.</p>

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<p>my friend just studied vocab and got a 1590. he’s a junior. </p>

<p>these kids have just had good foundations and had them built really early.</p>

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<p>yeah, that kid is a genius. </p>

<p>to get a 1600 at that age your brain would have to be overdeveloped or something out there…</p>

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<p>SAT is a “guessing test” it’s all multiple choice, therefore, it is possible for someone who doesn’t even know english or math to get 1600 if they get lucky!!! so don’t be surprised. some 1600s are smart while others might just have gotten lucky or those or there are those preppies that start studying in 3rd grade, so 5 years of preparation can earn them a very respectable score!!! i never even heard of the SAT till my 11th grade so i was pretty much fked</p>

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<p>It really all depends. Remember (thank god for AP Psychology reasoning), all we see is is score; we don’t know how many hours a day his parents may have forced him to practice, whether he is actually extremely intelligent or one of those drones built for SAT taking, etc. All that we can decipher is that he got a 1600. There may be many factors that contribute to it, so saying he is a genius is not exactly correct. However, just by guesstimating, statistics would say he’s probably in the top tier of 13 year olds for reasoning skills.</p>

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<p>A friend of my son’s got a 1590 as a 14 year old. I overheard him telling my son that year, that his parents were furious at him for not getting a 1600, and they were thinking of grounding him because he was too lazy to study. Very sad.</p>

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<p>OMG. I WOULD BE SSO HAPPY JUST BY GETTING A 1550. 1590 is genious. his parents must be geeks and the whole family too. I mean 1590 in such a low age, that abnormal.</p>

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<p>I just got a 1490 on a practice test. I feel inferior.</p>

<p>“SAT is a “guessing test” it’s all multiple choice, therefore, it is possible for someone who doesn’t even know english or math to get 1600 if they get lucky!!”</p>

<p>There are 138 questions on the SAT. 15 of them are 4-choice multiple choice, 10 are free-response, and the rest are 5-choice multiple choice.</p>

<p>So the probability of being able to get a 1600 on the test with pure guessing is around 1.3^-77, give or take depending on how well you do on the free-response and 4-choice multiple choice, as well as the curve on that particular test.</p>

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<p>khalid-thanks for working out the probability! I was thinking about trying it after I saw that post, so you saved me some work.</p>

<p>That’s really awesome for the kid! Being able to get an 800 in one section of the test at such a young age is difficult, but it happens often in the talent searches. Being able to get two 800s is very very impressive. I had a fairly balanced 1280 when I was around his age, and I was really happy with that.</p>

<p>I wonder if he’ll be allowed to send his 1600 to colleges. Usually scores from before 9th grade aren’t included on the score report. I guess it’s irrelevant, since he’ll have to take the new SAT anyway.</p>

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<p>why are you guys hating on juniors who score well… lets all be accepting here… <em>i’m a junior</em> but did not score THAT well</p>

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<p>OH WAIT… those juniors are my peers <em>shifty eyes</em> GRRRRRR!!!</p>

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<p>khalid889, i don’t c your point, lets talk about the lotteries for a second!!! wat are the chances of winning a lottery/??? and yet many people have done it, yes the possiblities are small, but hey, people have won it!!! so i stand by my point</p>

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<p>Newbyreborn, you have got to be an idiot. the chances of getting a 1600 by pure luck are so much smaller than winning the lottery. In addition, so many more people buy lotto tickets that the chances of multiple winners goes up much higher. don’t shift the blame for your poor score on the SAT and disregard those who scored well by making luck a factor. the kid is a genius. period.</p>

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<p>hendrixelixir, you have got to be an idiot. First, he doesn’t have to get the 1600 by pure luck. He will only guess on some fraction of the questions, thus improving the probability by a huge amount. Also - the SAT does not measure intelligence in any way - it measures ability to study effectively. You don’t have to be an awesome writer or an intellectual to score perfect on the english section, nor a math prodigy to score a perfect on the math section. What you have to do is practice, practice, practice. If a 13-year old puts his mind to it, he can achieve it. Its impressive because few people this age can really work that hard, but it doesn’t make him a genius in any way.</p>