<p>How much would Newton have scored in SAT I?</p>
<p>Probably the highest known score considering he was the genius who created calculus.</p>
<p>No, more likely he would’ve been flummoxed at the use of the functional notation on the SAT, invented by Euler after Newton died.</p>
<p>Also, he would have balked at the CR section.</p>
<p>Well no one knows how fast Newton was, so the time limits might have prevented him from getting an 800.</p>
<p>Who the hell knows? Is the answer.</p>
<p>He would have scored over 9000!</p>
<p>0 on the SAT 1 cuz he’d end up using pen and the computer cant recognize that.</p>
<p>If we are talking Newton as a level of intellect, in our current day, then probably very high, I mean he had the brains to create calculus, so he has some “reasoning” skills.</p>
<p>However if we transported him to the present, explained to him the general format and stuff, he would fail. Reading and writing is obviously not going to work for him, because society has change sooooooo much since way back then. In math, he would also fail, we are conditioned to know the math on the SAT, he wouldn’ know anything, again it would be like a foreign language, someone already said that we use a different functional notation.</p>
<p>Even in calculus he would be confused, we currently use Leibniz notation not Newton’s notation. </p>
<p>I don’t know why I took that so seriously, just a fun exercise in thought.</p>
<p>Albert Einstein might fair slightly better, but who knows.</p>
<p>If brought straight to the 21st century from the 17th then he will probably not fare well on the SAT, but that does not imply that he was less of a genius than those 700 or so idiots that score 2400 every year on this test. Commodities like Newton have become so rare today that even Hawking, probably the greatest living scientist, is far from being comparable to him. It is almost as if the next Newton will not arrive any time in the next ten thousand years.</p>
<p>JimyJim- making me laugh so hard.</p>
<p>He’d probably fail the writing section pretty hard, do decent on the math, and pretty low on the CR. The SAT caters to people who have gone through the American educational system.</p>
<p>I’m predicting
550 CR
680 Math
490 Writing</p>
<p>Somewhere around that.</p>
<p>I don’t think he’d care either. He’d take the time he was alive again to further our knowledge of calculus and physics more, expanding on his work and the work of others based on his work. He doesn’t need college. If he did, well, the Nobel Prizes he’d win would serve him well.</p>
<p>The English language has changed considerably since Newton was alive, and so has mathematics in fact. I think that he might do alright on the math section but on the other sections he would be ruined. The reading also alludes to a great deal of things, either in the modern day or recent history, that Newton would have no prior knowledge of.</p>
<p>I would predict:</p>
<p>CR 400
M 600
W 350</p>
<p>I doubt Shakespeare would score much better on the English sections. Consider what kind of essay grade he’d get with his “horrible” grammar and spelling!</p>
<p>Einstein, on the other hand, could probably score 750+ on all sections. The mathematics and English of his time are basically the same as our own. His writing is clearly the work of someone who is quite proficient in language and his talent in mathematics is obvious.</p>
<p>Plato, on the other hand, would probably get in the 200’s on all sections. Inability to read English is kind of a barrier.</p>
<p>I don’t know if the OP is talking about a contemporary version of Newton or the historical figure himself. Certainly, the SAT was not designed with Newton in mind as a test taker and it would not work to his advantage at all. As to how smart these historical people were and how well they would have taken tests, who knows?</p>
<p>If the test were designed with Newton in mind, most people would have much lower scores. Imagine calculus and physics on the SAT.</p>
<p>Modern psychologists estimate that Newton had an IQ of approximately 190, which puts him in the 99.9999999th the percentile, that is, the probability of a randomly selected human having an IQ as high as or higher than that of Newton is about one in a billion. With so high an IQ as his, it is all but certain that he would have mastered all three sections of the SAT within as little as a week despite the fact that as many as 300 years separate him from them for whom the test is actually intended. All hail, Newton.</p>
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<p>Not too good a score, most likely because he wouldn’t know that minorities are always portrayed positively on the SAT</p>