<p>You guys need to take this lofty discussion to the high school forum. It’s not really about SAT prep.</p>
<p>AMZ1AMZ…thank you so much for summing up our collective philosophy here…I wholeheartedly agree.</p>
<p>And as for the lowest score I see, shortly after the PSATs a kid at my school got the moniker “110,” which is still his primary nickname. You can guess how he got it.</p>
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I am fairly new here and haven’t posted much. For one thing, I am a retired middle school math teacher and 61 years old. When I was in high school, I only took the SAT one time, during the year of 1967.</p>
<p>Back in those days, there were only two sections of the SAT:</p>
<p>1) SAT Math
2) SAT Verbal</p>
<p>Therefore, the highest possible score one could get was a 1600 instead of a 2400.</p>
<p>I also gratuated from a small town country high school, where any student who was able to get 1200 or above was considered a genius. During my high school years, I never met anybody who made a 700 or higher on either the Math or the Verbal section.</p>
<p>It also seems like in those days, if anybody did make a perfect 1600 on the SAT, it usually made the national news. I can remember reading a number of newspaper articles about students who accomplished this feat.</p>
<p>My one and only SAT Math score was nothing to brag about – a 477. My SAT Verbal score was even worse – a 399. Those scores were good enough to get into my local community college. Back in those days, your SAT scores were not rounded to the nearest tens place yet.</p>
<p>Yet, I wound up becoming a math teacher. This was after I went to college and started to get serious about studying math. My major was actually psychology, but I earned the equivalent of a “minor” in math with 18 undergraduate hours.</p>
<p>Needless to say, there were no calculators in those days.</p>
<p>Believe it or not, I now do some part-time retirement work as a private math tutor. I focus primarily upon Pre-Algebra and Algebra I. </p>
<p>I also get called upon to tutor Geometry, which I try to avoid, primarily because I don’t like dealing with all of those proofs. However, I enjoy the types of Geometry problems I see on the SATs.</p>
<p>Lately, I have also been getting a lot of requests to tutor Algebra 2, which has changed dramatically since I took it in high school back in 1966. I am havin to teach a lot of it to myself.</p>
<p>I have also tutored one SAT Math student. His parent hired me because he was unable to crack a 400 on the Math section of the SAT after several tries. With my help, he finally got it, but just barely. According to his parent, all he needed was a 400 on his SAT Math to get into the college of his choice. Math was a major struggle for him. </p>
<p>In any event, the reason why I decided to join this site was to pick up a few tutoring tips on how to better tutor the Math portion of the SAT, just in case I get any more SAT Math students in the future.</p>
<p>Many of you are way beyond me with your natural math aptitudes. An that’s good. I have learned a lot from reading your posts.</p>
<p>Before I forget, I did once help a graduate student, who only got a 250 on the Math portion of his GRE, to break a 500 on his next try.</p>
<p>For students who have been scoring in the 700s on their Math SAT scores, and who are shooting for a perfect 800, I am definitely NOT the tutor they are looking for. </p>
<p>If I were to take the Math portion of the SAT today, I MIGHT break a 700 after several tries, knowing what I know now and after what I have learned. I am guessing that I would score in the mid to upper 600s if I were to take it today. At my age (61), my thinking skills are not as fast as they used to be.</p>
<p>Therefore, if a student contacts me and wants help breaking a 400 or a 500 on the Math SAT, I believe I can help them. If they want to break a 600, I believe I might be able to help them. If they want a 700 or higher, I would refer them to somebody else. I’m just not there yet.</p>
<p>Thanks for letting me tell a little about myself.</p>
<p>Good luck on your next SAT.</p>
<p>Best Wishes,</p>
<p>Dennis</p>
<p>It’s 1000x easier to get everything wrong then everything right.
Usually just from looking you can eliminate one answer. Most people can get it down to two possible choices. Which leaves 3 perfect answers for you. But even if you can eliminate only one… not a problem. Also, even if you didn’t know any of the answers, 4^however many answers to 1. You’re millions of times more likely to get every single question wrong than right.</p>
<p>980, from what I’ve heard.</p>
<p>I got a 1670, that’s pretty low 
I read on this website and I start to feel dumb.</p>
<p>well, dunno why…but all of a sudden the children nowadays are getting so smart…</p>
<p>Lowest score I saw was in the 1800s. My circle of friends is rather specific, and I’m outside US.
I don’t think it’s quite possible to easily guarantee a 600. Technically shouldn’t that make the SATs out of 1800 if the 600 marks are useless…? not sure why they have that 200…encouragement?</p>
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<p>Yes they are! (This thread)</p>
<p>A coworker of a friend apparently got something in the 900s. And someone at my school got something in the 1100s.</p>
<p>@Skyrior</p>
<p>Doesn’t the number 2400 just seem impressive somehow? It does to me. Maybe it has something to do with an imagined connection to the number of hours in a day…</p>
<p>lol @sosomenza this thread does seem to exemplify the stereotype that College Confidential brings. </p>
<p>Well for me, the lowest PSAT score I heard of was the day Sophomore PSATs were handed back. I went into my health class and this one girl asked if she could see my score. I didn’t mind because I did mediocre at the time (167).</p>
<p>Her response: “DAYUMM, how u get that high/?!?!?!” Turns out she got an 85. Then she turns to her friend and says: “AYO, did u kno this was out of 240???” I almost burst out laughing :)</p>
<p>I took mine twice, in may and november of 2008. I got an 1780 the first time and an 1870 the second time. I think that’s decent I got into the college of my choice (the University of Vermont). I definitely studied for the test, so my scores reflect that. I think I’m a fairly intelligent person, who knows haha.</p>
<p>@cheng81894 how can u get that when you get like 300 automatically for writing your name?</p>
<p>It is actually harder to answer all questions. Take a look at this ----> [SAT</a> : Getting the lowest score possible](<a href=“http://www.colinfahey.com/sat/sat.html]SAT”>http://www.colinfahey.com/sat/sat.html).</p>
<p>the SAT is scored on a bell curve… which means that there is the same amount of people who score 2400 that score 600… same amount of people who score 2300 that score 700… that’s a lot of people…</p>
<p>Lowest from people I know was a 1080.</p>
<p>My Sister got 830/2400. But she guessed on almost all of them because my parents made her take it against her will so she purposely did bad just to spite them.</p>
<p>Does anyone else think it’s ridiculous that you can get a 700/2400 even if you leave everything blank? Just fill in your details and automatically, you get 700.</p>
<p>No @jencee you actually get a 600 for leaving everything blank. As for lowest scores, I am a sophomore who just took the PSAT and I scored a 185 which sucks, but any who, I saw a kid get a 102, but again I am sure there are much worse scores at my school, that is just the lowest I’ve seen.</p>
Dunno if this counts but here’s a PSAT score I saw:
CR: 22
M: 25
W: 27
Total: 74/240, so 740/2400 if it was an SAT…lol