Data regarding perfect ACT/SAT scorers?

10jarsle
Tue, 16 Apr 2013 18:48:33 +0000

^ This may happen a little bit, but the fact remains that the utter geniuses will generally end up with a perfect score (especially if they take the test twice). I understand the bit about getting a question wrong here or there, but I also have friends who could finish an SAT math section in 15 minutes and spend the next ten double checking every answer. I doubt there are any IMO medalists without an 800 on the math section, and if one or two do that’s probably because they took the test once and got very unlucky.

To be clear, I’m not saying the test is perfect or finely tuned, but I stand by my original statement. If I see someone with an 800 on the math section, I don’t know if they’re just really good at math or a math genius. If they have a 790, its a better bet they’re just really good at math. Not a perfect metric and again there are tons of exceptions, but it holds statistically pretty well, just like the valedictorian/small school issue.