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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..."
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.
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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Plymouth University just did a study on this. Put monkeys in a room with typewriters and they simply make a mess.
Huh, weird dude.
I know someone that filled in the dots to form pacman-type characters, and he got the second highest score in his school class. His class was of 3 or 4 hundred, and not in the ghetto or anything - it was actually a pretty good high school in suburbia. Not sure what the actual score was, though.
I'd agree, the SAT is a farce. From what I've seen, the ACT is a fair degree better at being consistent, although it definately seems to favor logically minded folks over creative folks.
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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.
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...
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 seems like you need to drink more often. Kill the slow and lazy brain cells.... :)
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"?