<p>I don’t necessarily believe that you can say “SAT = intelligence,” although excuses made for a bad score are nevertheless useless. People can master standardized tests through practice. I’d like to say that anyone can master them, although I have no premise for that. If you say that you’re a bad test taker yet you have good grades, maybe it’s inflation, maybe it’s that you don’t like practicing for the SAT.
I consider myself a good test taker. I actually think that it’s because, mostly, before high school I became used to going into tests at school and not knowing a lot of the material. I had to reason a lot of it out (although that doesn’t mean I got a good score…). The SAT is basically reasoning - if you know all the patterns, you’re good to go. I’ve never taken the ACT (or rather, a practice test), so I know basically nothing about it.</p>