IQ tests instead of SATs?

quark49
Tue, 30 Jan 2007 03:01:40 +0000

In my elementary school, some kids (myself included) were selected to take an IQ test, and if we scored high enough, we were allowed into the GATE (Gifted and Talented Education) program.

The earliest you could get tested was 2nd grade, and you could get tested in 3rd, 4th, or 5th, if your teacher thought you should be. The kids who made it in with me when I was in 2nd grade (there were about 10 of us, which was an unusually high number), well, a lot of them aren’t so bright now. I hated GATE a lot of the time, because I was always the slowest to catch on and never understood things- now most of them are in lower level classes, and I’m valedictorian.

So who’s to say how these things work?

Besides, not all of us study for the SAT. I didn’t, and I got a 2260 after taking it once. My boyfriend did the same and got a 2180 or somesuch. So again, who’s to say?