<p>meh, wat can u do, it’s actually our fault for finding them annoy, i think english has a word for that kind of behavior. and i believe it’s called “JEALOUSY” lol</p>
<p>overacheiving nerds and crazy geeks r the ppl who cry even about 1550</p>
<p>I would be willing to bet that most people that are annoyed by the 1560’s complaining get below 1400 on the SAT, so they don’t really understand. I am not saying that if you don’t have a 1400 than your not mentally capable or anything, but it takes someone with higher score to understand how that person is feeling. Our whole life we’ve been told to study and do well on SAT…and we’ve all probably heard rumors about so-and-so who made a 1600, and we were filled with awe. I know exactly how the 1560 feels, I was 2 questions away from a perfect score, and it killed me! Its not that I think I made a bad score, but to come so close and barely miss the goal is very dissapointing. I have a friend that needed a 1310 to qualify for a scholarship, and he scored a 1300. He was no dissapointed by his SAT score because a 1300 is a respectable score, but he is dissapointed that he came so close, and barely missed. The agony comes from knowing that if you thought about a problem a little harder or didnt make that STUPID mistake from misreading the question, you would have acchieved the goal. My conclusion: Being sad is ok…but eventually you have to get over it.</p>
<p>“I am not saying that if you don’t have a 1400 than your not mentally capable or anything, but it takes someone with higher score to understand how that person is feeling.”
-I don’t know what you are talking about, man, you straight up contradicted yourself here. Second of all, your whole second clause is just erroneous. I scored a 1110, and I understand exactly what you’re saying, I just wholeheartedly disagree.</p>
<p>The people who ***** about 1590’s and 1580’s ***** about making stupid mistakes. The 960 or 1250 scorer USUALLY isn’t the one to make the careless mistake. He’ll work his tail off to achieve that so-called low score. The low-scorer’s response to the 1550 whiner should be, “don’t make the careless mistake.” Granted, the high-scorer obviously outscored the low-scorer, but if somebody has the brain capacity to be able to recieve a 1590, they should be smart enough to recieve a 1600. Making a ‘careless mistake’ is equivalent to saying, I was just being lazy and lost steam after being in the test room for two hours. Usually, the high-scorers just get overconfident during the test and thats where the careless mistakes come from.
Most of the time, low-scorers (like me, I got a 1110) won’t make a careless mistake. We just don’t know how to approach the problem.</p>
<p>EX: “The agony comes from knowing that if you thought about a problem a little harder or didnt make that STUPID mistake from misreading the question, you would have acchieved the goal. My conclusion: Being sad is ok…but eventually you have to get over it.”
SOLUTION: Work harder.
REASON: I only scored a 1110, but I worked my iSH off, and studied for weeks before the SAT. I didn’t know how to appraoch much of the math, and I tried hard, but not ONCE did I make a careless mistake. My point: work harder. The best way to not make a careless mistake is to not make a careless mistake. Carelessness is mediocracy.</p>
<p>Basically though, my point is, if you are lazy enough to make a “careless mistake” you don’t DESERVE the perfect score. I don’t know how this will translate online, but here in my neck of the woods in Philly, we say that anybody who gets a 1590 is just salty.</p>
<p>“Being sad is ok…but eventually you have to get over it.”
True statement</p>
<p>Does anybody have copies of past PSAT tests that they would sell me ? Please send me a private message.</p>
<p>yup, as soon as i score my 2400 in march i will do nothing but brag mercilessly :)</p>
<p>there are two sides to this…</p>
<p>one is it’s human nature to want to brag about 1560 which is a good score. which sort of annoys me because it is like skinny girls saying “OOO EMMM GEEE i’m so FAT” so other people will say they’re skinny -__-* that ***<em>es me off, *crying</em> about a 1560…</p>
<p>the other is that it’s kinda sad to get a 1560 because it doesn’t sound as good 
messing up on one or two more reading comprehension and not knowing a dumb vocab word can bring you down that much. </p>
<p>but yeah, its kinda annoying.</p>
<p>or whine because you didn’t get a 2410 ;)</p>
<p>Really, I got a 1560, I was a little ****ed at the fact that I was so close to a perfect score, but that soon went away as I found out what other people in my class got.</p>
<p>My point was not that if you scored a 1400 then automatically you would not understand. I was making a generalization- as demostrated through the word “most.” I was saying that on this thread people are bashing the 1560 scorer and very few of them know what its like to be in their shoes. I would disagree that people make mistakes because of overconfidence. Its a timed test and the trick to doing well is to be able to solve difficult problems as quickly as possible. Its overconfidence if you don’t go back and double check, but people make stupid mistakes…it has nothing to do with intelligence.</p>
<p>I repeat:
“Basically though, my point is, if you are lazy enough to make a “careless mistake” you don’t DESERVE the perfect score.”</p>
<p>I see many different points of view here, and I haven’t taken the SATs yet, only the PSATs.</p>
<p>I believe I got something like 680-720 on verbal, 650-690 on reading, and, you won’t believe my math score… 480-520!!!</p>
<p>The thing is, I have been and am in all honors math classes my entire middle/high-school career, and teachers often told me how smart, etc. I was. (I’m not a genius according to my IQ, but I do qualify for MENSA) </p>
<p>However, the things that seems to keep me from getting to that next level are two things: mainly, it’s **under-**confidence. I’m always worried I’m approaching a problem wrong, that there’s such an easier and faster way to go about solving it, that I’m running out of time, etc. etc. The list goes on. I could rant on and on about this, but I just have to find what I’m doing wrong and pinpoint it. I make really stupid mistakes that I can understand with relative ease when reviewing my PSAT answer booklet; they are both of an arithmetical and logical nature. I often come at things wrong in my underconfident way of doing things. </p>
<p>I’m confident I could achieve that 1400+ if I could get over this boundary. I am almost always the first one in my class with an answer, even if I don’t raise my hand. Something in my attitude is just stopping me.</p>
<p>The other thing which seems to be stopping me is my lack of motivation; until now (and, still existent, bouts of doubtfulness) I have done almost no homework this quarter, which led to this quarter’s 2.85 GPA.</p>
<p>I’m a bit confused and worried. As I stated in another thread, even if I achieve a 4.0 for each of the next grading periods, my final high school GPA can only reach a max of 3.87 unweighted. That’s good, but it’s damn hard to achieve, what with all the pressures that are associated with high school. :(</p>
<p>“i have done almost no homework this quarter”…mmm u deserve the 2. watever then… what did u expect??</p>
<p>to answer robertg’s dilemma, there are two possibilities that happening with u:
- you are not a good test-taker (but judging from your verbal and reading, i highly doubt this, which leaves 1 possibility)
- your grades are highly inflated!!!</p>
<p>i bet many ppl on cc lie about their scores. like some ppl who say they got 1570, they must have gotten like a 1370 and r sad about it…they r liers. i even encountered one. i shall not anounce his name but in different threads, he put different scores. and the person was crying about that. I caught him and emailed him and he emailed me back saying “maybe I did. y do u care?” I really dont care, but u r discouraging lower scorers who think every1 has done better than them and loose faith. and wats more to it is that you lied about ur scores that discouraged some1. BUT I KNOW THAT THERE R SOME SMART KIDS IN THIS SITE WHO GET OVER 1550</p>
<p>btw, i did pretty good for a freshman.</p>
<p>“We are over-achievers, it is as simple as that.”
That’s absurd. That’s not true at all. You’re inconsiderate is what you are. By complaining about a 1560 you are, in effect, telling everyone else who scored below a 1560 that they should be unhappy to. By complaining about a 1560, how should one who got a 1200 feel when you make a statement like that. By acting as though it is unacceptable to score that low, you downplay the achievements of anyone at or below your level. I am in overachiever. I try very hard, i’m disappointed when I could have done better, but i also understand that by complaining about being in the top 1% of the nation, you’re insulting a good 99%. So please, do not call yourself an overachiever. For I am an overachiever, call yourself inconsiderate or arrogant.</p>
<p>Just because we get somewhat high scores does not mean we did not work our butts off. I studied for Math IIC for FIVE MONTHS an hour or more a day and I got a 780. I was so close yet so far. It just annoyed me that I worked SO hard for five months and then could not get the 800. Granted, I was only a sophomore and did not know the intricacies of the SAT or I might have scored better (double check my answers instead of spending the last 20 minutes trying to solve the last 5 problems) but that is beyond the point. Everyone has a goal and when they come up short by the smallest little bit, it is annoying and very dissapointing.</p>
<p>hazellorb, i didn’t say I don’t have high scores. I have a 1520 sat and also got a 780 on math twice in a row and a 780 on math satIIs. It was annoying, but that doesn’t mean you complain about it in front of others with lower scores. I worked hard too, congratulation, it doesn’t give you the right to be rude.</p>
<p>I walk talking more to RBase who said we should “work harder” if we’re complaining about a 1560. I’d say 5 months of studying qualifies as working hard.</p>
<p>hazelorb, my apologies, I thought that was in reference to me. I am sure that anyone who receives that score has put plenty of hard work into it, and I disagree totally with his sentiment. Congratulations on the scores though.</p>
<p>People cry about a 1560 because they know deep down inside that their score
would constitute many people’s pre-college dreams. They essentially want the special attention they receive when they pretend there are dumb, so everyone else can say, “Look, you are not dumb. You are a very smart person. Come on, be happy.” People like attention that way. Personally, I don’t believe in fact that
not getting a 1600 is the end of life. A 1600 is also related to luck somewhat. I consider myself good at math, yet I took the SAT a few times (one for real and like 5 for practice) and I’ve only got 800’s on 2 of them. Now, see here, I could say I’m stupid, but then I would be wanting other people to say, look, you are very good at math, you got 800. But I’m not going to complain. I view a 1600 as neither genius nor brilliance, but dedication, hard work, and a stroke of luck. ;)</p>