Range of accepted SAT scores for Intl.Students.

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Sat, 17 Sep 2005 07:39:39 +0000

Seeing as I went to a private school in China (Beijing) a few years ago, with a majority of the students being Asians (who don’t hold Chinese citizenship), I recall most students being extremely happy to score an 800. Most students were above average, but most had math scores under 700.

And you’re comparing two unrelated things. For example, now living in Finland, I can say the matriculation exam for long mathematics (which is a joke, btw) is still more ‘difficult’ than the SAT; It’s just that most students have a lot more time to complete the exam despite it requiring much more knowledge. The SAT tests your reasoning skills and requires that you complete a lot of problems in a short time interval. Do remember that to score an 800, you can only get 1 problem wrong (if I recall correctly). Most people will make stupid mistakes or something similar.

(I’m assuming here that the Korean math 2 test is something like an exam that tests knowledge, not reasoning ability)

Oh, and sorry if this message is a incoherent and difficult to follow along with, I’m feeling a bit tired… :)