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For those of you who scored 35+, what were your SAT scores?
It seems like some people are good at standardized tests.
It seems like some people are good at standardized tests.
Pinkertinkle said:Testing skills are very important.
Croatalus_atrox said:It's all about test taking skills.
SAT
V: 790
M: 800
ACT
35 (late 80s, when the highest score possible was 35)
MCAT
PS: 11
VR: 12
BS: 13
WS: O (I thought my writing samples were damn good)
Keberson said:your sat and act were genius level but you're mcat is not.
its close though!
Croatalus_atrox said:
What the hell are you talking about?!?
Medikit said:Your MCAT is Dumb Dumb McDumbperson level, you big dummy.
Croatalus_atrox said:Gotcha. I'd just never heard of anyone correlating standardized test scores to intelligence before.
A little Googling only brings up Mensa membership criteria as far as standardized testing and intelligence goes. Oh well, it won't break my heart if I couldn't join their exclusive little club with my sub-genius MCAT score. I'm hoping it'll help my membership in a far more useful group of people, anyway.
Where have you been, dude? You can't really believe that.Croatalus_atrox said:I'd just never heard of anyone correlating standardized test scores to intelligence before.
IndyZX said:Where have you been, dude? You can't really believe that.
I think it's silly to correlate the two as well, but come on...
Croatalus_atrox said:Of course people tell you that you must be a genius to get such scores, and it's obvious that a certain amount of intelligence is necessary to acheive them. But to actually say "This score is 'genius level', but this score is not...", nope,never heard of it (at least in regards to non-IQ standardized tests).
Honestly, I never paid much attention to it, and it was never really a topic of discussion in the social circles in which I run. I've been out of high school since 1990, and I've only just started my college education in the last three years. The intervening time was spent in the kinds of environments where the ability to perform interest calculations in your head earns you the nickname "Einstein", or where the SAT is mostly known as "that test you need to get into college". So you can bet that I didn't spend much time dwelling on my scores and what they mean.
Believe what you will...
blz said:I think he got a little offended he didn't call his MCAT genius level too.
Croatalus_atrox said:We all know that there are more important factors to success than how smart you are.
For instance, what did I do with those outstanding, "genius-level" SAT and ACT scores after high school?
Reimat said:I feel any comparision to SAT scores is slightly skewed because most people who have the motivation and intelligence to go to Med. school are most likely going to have done well versus the general population. Most people taking the MCAT are not representative of the general population. A loose correlation might appear between scores, but I would bet most of that is due to test taking ability rather than inherent 'smarts'.
IndyZX said:how is it skewed? we are comparing SAT scores to MCAT scores within a single population (med school applicants)?
im sure that the people with high SAT/MCAT scores will be more likely to respond, but that doesnt skew the correlation
RayhanS1282 said:Not too proudly my scores were:
SAT: 710 Verbal; 600 Math
MCAT: 10P, 10B, 7V
Hey, now I see the correlation...I sucked both times (on the exams that it).
blz said:Our MCAT scores would be higher if we had the same dumba55 highschool students taking it with us like we had with the SATs.
willthatsall said:Well obviously the prep factor will influence a correlation, but the fact that the MCAT sample is smarter, on average, than the SAT sample does not affect the correlation. Even if an 80% on the MCAT is found to correlate to a 95% on the SAT, that's still a correlation. A correlation doesn't mean that 80th percentile on the MCAT and SAT are equal. That's the point I was trying to make.
pauleuglis said:Wow, VFrank, your MCAT score puts you in the top 0.1% of test takers.... Below is honest data:
October 1999
SAT V: 800
SAT M: 800
April 2003
MCAT V: 11
MCAT P: 14
MCAT B: 12
MCAT W: T
blz said:SCREENSHOT!
dreghsSC said:M:660
Im so much better at math.. this must have been a fluke
dreghsSC said:for those of you who killed the MCAT how much prep time did you give yourself and what was your science gpa.
SAT (one time)
V:420
M:660
Im so much better at math.. this must have been a fluke
Our MCAT scores would be higher if we had the same dumba55 highschool students taking it with us like we had with the SATs.