I failed yesterday's test

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<p>I just feel terrible. I really wanted to do well on the SAT so that I could have a decent chance at my top choices for schools. Now, I don’t know how everything is going to turn out. How am I going to send a 1900 SAT score to any school? I just feel like a complete failure. My school is super competitive, and it is a place where people think that 2270’s are bad scores. Well, how does my 1900 compare? Its terrible. The second go around is in October, and that’s when I have to take the SAT at the same time I’m taking classes like AP Physics C, AP Micro/macro, AND writing my intel paper. I just don’t know what to do. I think I’ll just have to study really hard for the ACT and the subject tests next month, and send those instead. I always thought I was sufficiently intelligent, and yet I can’t even get a 2100 on the SAT. </p>

<p>Today is mother’s day, and my mom wanted me to go to grandma’s for a party. I told her that I wasn’t in the mood to go, and of course she was really angry, but I just don’t feel good about this test. I know I should have went, but I just don’t feel comfortable. </p>

<p>I thought that reading was pretty decent, up until the double reading passage. The writing, as usual, was decent. But I really screwed up on the math. This is NOT GOOD considering I was planning to apply to top engineering/physics schools. Even after doing all 30 practice sections in the Blue Book, I still couldn’t get some of the questions. I thought this was unusually hard (please correct me if I"m wrong) I made at least 4 errors, so my highest score is a 700 (in the best possible situation), when these schools need 770+. </p>

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<li><p>The infamous Volume/surface area problem. I didn’t get it, because I thought that it had to be directly proportional, since both involve the sides (one is s^3, the other is 6s^2). With the correct constant, any of the choices could have been “directly proportional.”</p></li>
<li><p>The coffee problem. Had a minute left, and couldn’t think through it clearly. </p></li>
<li><p>This one where they told you for the smallest value. I chose -(1/n^2). I was running out of time, and I forgot that the smaller the absolute value, the bigger the negative number. </p></li>
<li><p>The prime number one. I decided to jump ahead to the coffee problem, which was NOT a good idea. </p></li>
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<p>It doesn’t help that the proctor didn’t keep the time, and he didn’t let us use our watches. I think I could have gotten the prime number and the 1/n+1 problems correctly if I had enough time. But the coffee and the direct proportion? I have no clue!</p>

<p>I just feel terrible. It’s my first time taking the SAT I, and I really thought I could do at least a 2100. Now, when the scores come back in 18 days, I can’t believe I’m going to see a 1900.</p>

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<p>don’t worry about it. you’ll be pretty surprised by your performance. i thought march was going to be pretty rough but i ended up with a 2290. for this test specifically i can see the curve being very high seeing as the test caused a large number of highly intelligent people alot of grief. goodluck and who knows… you may be pleasantly surprised on may 26</p>

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<p>You’re mad about a 1900?!?! I got an 810 back in January :(</p>

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<p>First off, 1900 isn’t failing. It’s well above the nations average. So don’t try to sell any of us that crap here </p>

<p>And secondly, oh well. As my sat tutor stated, the sat is a very accurate depiction of your intelligence. That’s why you see the smartest people in your school get the highest sat score. So Oh well - you got a 1900. By the sound of it, it’s not like you made careless errors or accidentally missed something. It sounds like you struggled - so that’s how smart you are. You can beat yourself up for not as well as you would have liked on a test that measures intelligence. You have no sympathy from me - your just a 1900 student. </p>

<p>And Please, dont make others who got 1900 sound like failures, because 1900 is a good score. </p>

<p>You just come off as being whiny. You got a 1900, on a test that YOU struggled on. Deal with it or practice more. </p>

<p>Maybe your not cut out for elite schools</p>

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<p>Well, actually this is my first time taking the SAT, so I really don’t know how I did. But I felt the math was unusually difficult.</p>

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<p>@JD, do you mean 1810? </p>

<p>@Sid, are you kidding? The SAT is NOT an accurate measurement of one’s intelligence…</p>

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<p>Lol i got a 1910 my first time, so does that mean I’m dumb now? I’m top 5% in my class, and I’m not letting the SATs bring me down. I took them yesterday and am pretty sure i broke 2000, so just keep trying, good luck.</p>

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<p>A 1900 really isn’t a bad score. And I have to disagree with the SAT representing someone’s intelligence. Intelligence is something that you’re born with. With the SAT, you can train for it as much as you want. It doesn’t necessarily reflect your intelligence.</p>

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<p>Whoever believes the SAT is a poor measurement of ones intelligence - look at the smartest people in your school, and ask what they got on their sat…4.0 students generally get a higher sat…just saying</p>

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<p>i dont care what anyone says… 9 time out of 10, a genius will not get a 1500 and a dumb*** will not get a 2200</p>

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<p>Thank you jd - there is a reason why colleges like MIT and Princeton and Harvard use the SAT as one of the main components of their application process</p>

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<p>I know that smarter people usually get higher scores. What I’m saying though is that it isn’t an IQ test. I know really intelligent people who got great scores but not the best.</p>

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<p>I feel the same way you do Scintillation. I am applying for premed and after yesterday, I am so down nothing is picking me up (I have taken MANY SAT tests, and honestly I can say that was the hardest math section I ever encountered). </p>

<p>We just have to wait until the scores come out. And when they do, we can find out what to do next. </p>

<p>Let us not dwell on the negative but. hope for the positive. What if the curve is gracious?</p>

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<p>^Likewise, I know some dumbasses who have a had a shi*load of tutoring and are in the 2100+ range. Also, GPA doesn’t reflect intelligence, it reflects ability to do work and somewhat intelligence. A 1900 on the SAT does NOT mean he is a 1900 student or of 1900 intelligence. Do smart people generally study more for school and the sat? Yes. However, it is correlation, not causation.</p>

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<p>Calm yourself down and get on with life. It is so not the end of the world, especially if you’re going to retake them AND take the ACTs!</p>

<p>The SAT is most definitely not representative of your intelligence. It is representative of how good you are at taking the SAT. Yes, intelligent people do usually score well, but so do unintelligent people sometimes. And geniuses can bomb it, too. Some tests work better for different people. I know a kid who went to Harvard who got a perfect score on her ACT but got an 1800 on the SAT. Please stop being a perfectionist and be happy with–or at least accept–what you got. It’s reasonable to be frustrated when you don’t get the score you want, but this is clearly not the end of the line. So don’t make it the end of the line.</p>

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<p>wow
some people are unhappy with their 1900
i’m so happy with my 1800</p>

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<p>just retake it in october. u will have all of the summer to prepare ur self and u will be extremely prepared by the end of the summer. just do like a practice a week when school starts to keep urself in the heat and just do well in oct.</p>

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<p>lol @ “maybe your not cut out for elite schools.”</p>

<p>first of all, yes sat scores roughly correlate to iq scores. that doesn’t mean that very intelligent people don’t get mediocre scores. telling someone that they’re as intelligent as their sat score only makes you look like an idiot. the sat is a very coachable test, how the hell do you think people jump hundreds of points? i guess their iqs go way up too!</p>

<p>scintillation, don’t feel bad. you don’t know what you got for sure yet, just calm down. you have a while before you have to retake it, so practice more. get comfortable with the problems and strategies. i always do awful on the math section of standardized tests just because math doesn’t come naturally to me. i could figure out almost all of the problems if i had time but i make careless mistakes because i feel pressured. sounds like you’re in a similar situation. it’s definitely a bummer, but it sounds like you’re capable of doing well - it’s just a matter of settling yourself down so you don’t make stupid mistakes and finishing on time.</p>

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<p>@Sidthekidc87: I’m sorry to say this, but you’re pathetic. People like you just show that people with greatly high SAT scores are more likely to be just completely rational minds at the cost of any emotional creativity. Fill the world with smart people like those who always score more than 2350 on the SAT and I can guarantee you’ll want a time machine to go back to the better days of the past.</p>

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<p>Take the ACT. You may be surprised.</p>