<p>In his/her preparation for the SAT:
*Finished a college-level words’ list of 3500+ words.
*Studied the SAT required 18 Maths lessons, with solving 1000s of relevant sums.
*Went through plenty of good Grammatical rules. (Those involving the SAT)
*Finished 35+ Real SAT Tests.
*Practiced 40+ Essays.
*Finished-diligently-those books: (apart from other REAL SAT Tests)</p>
<h1>Barron’s SAT 24TH EDITION.</h1>
<h1>PR’s Cracking The SAT 2009.</h1>
<h1>CB’s Official SAT Study Guide.</h1>
<h1>McGHill’s SAT 2010 : the one w/h 10 Practice Tests.</h1>
<h1>Barron’s SAT 2400.</h1>
<h1>PR’s 11 Practice Tests For The SAT & PSAT. (2009)</h1>
<h1>College Road. (Don’t search for it, though pretty authentic, doesn’t exist in America)</h1>
<h1>CB’s 1 whole year’s “The Official SAT Question of the Day”.</h1>
<h1>And that minute Kaplan’s box: SAT IN A BOX.</h1>
<p>Mirinda - I don’t think any one kid deserves any one score. One might have done all those things but still have a bad test day, get sick, forget everything s/he studied because of anxiety, etc. Studying does not always imply application.</p>
<p>BUT – to answer your question, I personally think the kid should have expected (provided that the kid does not have any flagrant problems) a score of 2100+</p>
<p>Shading too darkly does cause it to appear on the previous page, but I don’t think this affects the score at all since the scantron machine works by reflecting light. Since shading darkly just leaves a residue that isn’t shiny, your score won’t be affected. </p>
<p>For the SAT score that the person deserves…you can’t say since you don’t know how well they’ve learned from his or her practice.</p>
<p>That’s a lot of work and you probably deserve a very good score. However, we can only prepare so much and the actual SAT might not meet our expectations of what we’ve studied for. Students study such and such book expecting their scores to rise or take a course in hopes of achieving a better score, though they might actually get something lower. I didn’t sit in on the October SAT’s but the opinion I gathered from it was that it was tough. I’d say calm down a bit if you’re not happy and think back to the day you took the test and see if you could identify what might’ve went wrong. Other than that, it’s the past and if you would like a retake to get the score you so deserve, go for it. </p>
<p>Practice is not necessarily indicative of performance, especially on the SAT where the difference of a few questions can drastically affect your score. There are people who prepare for months and don’t hit exceptional scores and there are people who study for maybe a week and hit very high numbers. If you freeze up or lose focus, your score will be affected and no amount of practice can perfectly prepare you for the anxiety you might face. If he takes it and gets a 2400, good for him, he deserves it be cause he didn’t lose focus, he kept moving, he utilized his practice. Likewise, if he goes in and hits a 1400, his loss of focus or slow pacing could have been his downfall. There’s no way to determine what a person “deserves” on the SAT. You can predict (to an extent) what their score will probably be based on practice test scores, but that does necessarily show “what they deserve”.</p>
<p>i’ve known people who have prepped for months for the SAT and got under 2000 and have great grades in school. Then there’s people who glanced at the test 3 days before and got 2300+</p>
<p>Also, what ticks me off about you is that ur so supercilious. u throw around huge vocab just to look smart (but u dont even use the connotation correctly) and you think that everyone else but u is wrong (for those that dont know, just read his/her earlier posts)</p>
<p>Listen, kid! This thread is to answer a certain question and not to criticize me. Plus, perhaps, I am very supercilious! But, as long as it does no harm to you, don’t mention it. And, I don’t THROW AROUND WORDS to look smart, I am having a partial problem of placing THOSE BIG WORDS into their ideal place! Another thing is, two of CC members commented on my grammar and my way of writing as WRONG AND UNINTELLIGIBLE. But, when I got an essay score of 11 on the real SAT, I didn’t listen to them.</p>
<p>Regarding being supercilious, I confess that I am very pompous and, perhaps, veryyyyyyyyyyyyy over-proud. I respect those who ARE REALLY REVERENT. I can contempt a young man or lady, for being unbehaved, even if s/he had my life within his/her hands. While I can, very much, respect a kid, who hasn’t yet passed his/her fifth year in life!!</p>
<p>are you a guy or girl? please easy off on the frigging vocab, you dont even know how to use it. for example:</p>
<p>CONTEMPT is not a verb, its a noun that means that you scorn something.
Over-proud - not a word
Reverent- you dont put really before reverent, as it already has a very strong connotation to it
“This thread is to answer a certain question” - incorrect pronoun use, because you cannot link a noun, is, and infinitives together
“But, when I got an essay score of 11 on the real SAT, I didn’t listen to them.” They already said it, so your tense is wrong (are you suggesting that they said it when you got your score?)</p>
<p>These are just a few of the grammar and vocab mistakes that i saw after glancing through your post. maybe you got a 11 on your essay, but i got a 78/12 for a 800 on mine.</p>
<p>For someone who does not want his thread to turn into a “ludicrous fight”, you seem to be exacerbating the problem by jumping at anyone who criticizes your linguistic ineptitude.</p>