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Lowest Raw Score Ever on the SAT
An anonymous reader writes "Lowest Raw Score Ever on the SAT. Relax! You are practically guaranteed to have done better on the SAT than this guy! But the competition for most extreme negative raw score is just beginning..."
This is nothing, compare this with G Bush's!
at least he's got a bright future in politics or with Microsoft's QA department
well, it's nothing one behind the ear wouldn't cure
As I can only assume that this page is going to be slashdotted in the next few minutes, I feel its important to share with everyone the best part of the page...
Premise -- dude tries really hard to do really bad on the exam, ends up by accident getting 2 questions right, and scores a 400 on the exam.
"This experiment grew on me as time passed by, and now I am thinking of other
funny angles, like asking Princeton Review or Kaplan if they would be interested
in being able to make the claim that a person who participated in their SAT
preparation course improved his test score by 1200 points!"
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I must be very smarty with my 1350. A friggin jeenius. 100 points more than 1250, so 132 + 100 = 232 IQ. Very jeeniousy of me.
I pulled an all-nighter on a Thursday evening because I had two tests the next day to cram for.
Then, I had to take the SATs on Saturday morning at 8:00 am. Well, they'd have been fine, but I ended up partying at an older friend's house on Friday night, getting piss drunk, puking, and not getting to bed until 7:00am.
I got up in about a half-hour and my friend drove me to the school to take them.
Somehow (I'm convinced through an act of God Himself) I ended up with a 1510. I can't fucking believe that.
The scary thing is that I took it a couple months later and got an 1160. I'll never figure it out. I don't think the damn things measure anything.
Damn this is funny. It makes me want to go and take the test just for the hell of it. I never actually took it because I changed high-schools and the timing was weird. I rocked that ACT test though and I was sweating it. Anyway, the point is now that I'm older, calmer and have more practical knowledge, I could probably rock that test hard and get into Yale. Oh yeah I forgot, Yale is a Bush party school.
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Mmmm...ask football recruiters for big schools like Miami and Ohio. I bet they could tell you. I bet you would be horrified.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
"This is a key time in the college admission process. Stay organized, keep your grades up, and before you know it you'll be checking your mailbox for fat envelopes."
Yeah, the Dell guy's gonna send him mail saying "Dude, you're going to college!"
Seriously, though - if this isn't a troll, this guy will make one hell of a sociologist - he already has Wittgenstinian relativism down pat.
And if he doesn't get tenure, at least he'll be able to assume that I'd like fries with that...
oh brave new world, that has such people in it!
Plymouth University just did a study on this. Put monkeys in a room with typewriters and they simply make a mess.
Phonetically, TOEFL is nearly: Teufel, the German word for "devil."
:)
I must have my test-taking hat on
I went through high school hardly doing a thing, and got an appropriate grade for it. I took the SAT, and scored better than just about everyone. Now I'm in college with a high GPA. I should be the college board's poster child.
near the bottom of the page there is an overexposed photo of the test taker with this caption:
FIGURE: "Could my future get any brighter?!"
"Smoking helps you lose weight - one lung at a time" -- A. E. Neumann
Lots and lots of people are in the top 2% of humanity.
Judging from a quick mental run-through of the SAT scores and IQs of people I know, I'd say about 1/3 of everybody fits in the 98th percentile.
And about 2/3 of everybody has at least one shoebox full of blue ribbons.
We're one spart pack of motherfuckers, I tell ya.
The truth is, SAT scores fall on a range of 400-1600 because they are calculated by rolling 4d4.
Its the dual-purpose F density curve, proposed by on of my professors:
In any give class, The first exam(s) will have the most Fs, the middle will have the least, and the final will approach the first, leading to something resembling an inverted bell curve, biased to the low end. It is also a plot of frequency of the F word versus intelligence.
The masses are the crack whores of religion.
I breezed through it in less than the allotted time thinking how easy it was. To my surprise I actually got two questions wrong! That equated to an IQ of 158 (max was 160).
I'm smart enough to know that I am not a genious, so my curious mind went to work.
My conclusion was that my job actually trained me for the test. At the time I was writing assembly language code for realtime control system. The use of or, nor, and, nand, xor on the lowest computer language had honed my skills at the deductive reasoning process. I had studied the test!
Years later, after my career took me away from hacker coding, I came across an IQ test at BN. I bought it, took it, and scored a reasonable score.
Conclusion: If you want to scrore big on the IQ test, try assembly level programming for 18 months.
Cool!! My IQ tested in the mid 130s, but I only scored 1100 on my SAT when I took it. With recentering now maybe I can retake the test and get that massive self esteem boost of finally achiving the numbers of my geekier math nerd friends back then.
Great. An excuse for thousands of nerds to brag about their SAT scores :)
A deep unwavering belief is a sure sign you're missing something...
After a night of excess myself and four friends realized we had our SAT's that morning at 8:00am (it was about 5 or 6 when we realized this). I purchased a sixpack of Josta Cola (mmm... Josta, the real oldschool geek drink) and we headed off for the testing.
I had to wake one friend up twice during the testing, and he still was staggering during breaks, his final score: 1580. Another friend landed into what I would consider the lowest score of all time with a 580 COMBINED! I managed to do OK with a 1260.
The moral of the story, do a number of odd substances, don't sleep, do not study, and get a few naps in DURING the testing and you too can score like a true Ivy Leaguer. =)
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I find having a snailmail address qualifies a person for Mensa.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
If enough people took the test with the goal of making a negative score, the resulting nose dive of the average should throw the entire academic community into a state of shock from which it might not emerge.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
It's just you idiots who scored less than 1500 who think otherwise ;)
"I assumed blithely that there were no elves out there in the darkness"
but it rounds up to like 540 canadian.
back in middle school, I had a teacher who would give lots of extra credit questions on tests, but would subtract points if you got the extra credit wrong. I ended up with a -120 on a test. F for the semester too, but middle school doesnt matter.
This reminds me of the time I was at some social gathering, and the topic of IQ came up. We all volunteered our IQs. Mine was 130 at the time based on a test I took in 7th grade. It later shot up to 150 based on a test with a psychologist, taken for the purpose of determining why I was having difficulty in college. If it makes any difference, my SAT was 1320 and I took it in 1985, before they dumbed it down.
Anyhow, the girl volunteered that her IQ was 105. That was the lowest that anybody fessed up to that evening. I thought since 100 was supposed to be average, either the IQ tests are bogus, or there are a lot of institutes for the retarded hidden away in the woods. I mean, this girl was dumb. The thought of more than 50% of the world being dumber than her was terrifying to me. Of course now I realize that intelligence isn't everything.
The girl was not bad looking. I wouldn't be surprised if she did just fine. I dropped out of college for two years shortly after that last test. I still consider myself to be "in recovery".
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?