Today’s SAT

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kid thought it wasn’t as hard as march. WS hoping for a hard test. Hard test = better curve = you can get more wrong. My kid’s theory is that he’ll always get a couple wrong in math and wants to hit a hard test where you can get 1-2 wrong and still get an 800.

The curve will be on Reddit once results are out

Would you please explain this (bolded)?

/sat

[Anonymous]

FWIW, here are some of the vocal words kids on reddit say were super hard: foment, attrition, sporadic, pervade, supersede, pretext, conjecture

We did a ton of vocab, focusing on words that websites said were critical for the SAT. None of those were on it! Hopefully my kid knew them!

[Anonymous]

Just a reminder that kid may do much better than she thinks.
DD left June test in tears bc she thought it was so hard. Did much better than anticipated.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DC's 4th time and said it was the worst. By far.

Your kid needs to give it a rest. Four times is ridiculous.

Says you. DC is already planning for a fifth and sixth.

Six times?!?

The essence of privilege.

The SAT with superscoring is a joke.

And based on the number of times people need to take it, it definitely isn't an intelligence test.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just a reminder that kid may do much better than she thinks.
DD left June test in tears bc she thought it was so hard. Did much better than anticipated.

+1. It can be difficult to accurately predict scoring based on how a student felt they did, even moreso on this digital test than on the old paper ones.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid thought it wasn’t as hard as march. WS hoping for a hard test. Hard test = better curve = you can get more wrong. My kid’s theory is that he’ll always get a couple wrong in math and wants to hit a hard test where you can get 1-2 wrong and still get an 800.

The curve will be on Reddit once results are out

Would you please explain this (bolded)?

/sat

That is the subreddt, r/Sat, but the curve for the digital test cannot be crowdsourced since different questions have different weights.

[Anonymous]

They always say that the test was harder than the Blue Book Tests.. lol kids..

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC's 4th time and said it was the worst. By far.

Your kid needs to give it a rest. Four times is ridiculous.

Says you. DC is already planning for a fifth and sixth.

Six times?!?

The essence of privilege.

The SAT with superscoring is a joke.

And based on the number of times people need to take it, it definitely isn't an intelligence test.

How is this "privilege?" (And, so what if it is?) Are students of a lower SES denied the opportunity to take it multiple times? That must be it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC's 4th time and said it was the worst. By far.

Your kid needs to give it a rest. Four times is ridiculous.

Says you. DC is already planning for a fifth and sixth.

Six times?!?

The essence of privilege.

The SAT with superscoring is a joke.

And based on the number of times people need to take it, it definitely isn't an intelligence test.

Of course it's not; this is news to you?

It's a Scholastic Aptitude Test, which, by definition, tests what one has learned in a scholastic (i.e. school) setting.

Intelligence tests, AKA IQ tests, are something different.

Sounds like your kid gave up after one or two attempts. Nothing wrong with that, but neither is there anything wrong with being more competitive and trying to raise an overall score.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FWIW, here are some of the vocal words kids on reddit say were super hard: foment, attrition, sporadic, pervade, supersede, pretext, conjecture

We did a ton of vocab, focusing on words that websites said were critical for the SAT. None of those were on it! Hopefully my kid knew them!

I'm surprised to hear those words described as "super hard."

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DC's 4th time and said it was the worst. By far.

Your kid needs to give it a rest. Four times is ridiculous.

Says you. DC is already planning for a fifth and sixth.

+1 I probably used to think taking it more than three times was ridiculous, but here we are.

No, it’s still ridiculous. You’ve lost your mind.

No. Your child (or you) has decided to accept whatever best score s/he has made in 2-3 attempts. That's fine, perhaps, for your child. Others are trying to improve for whatever reason is unique to them. You have no idea what other students' individual situations are, and thus cannot make a blanket comment that multiple attemps - beyond your arbitrary number - are "ridiculous."

It’s insane behavior suggesting mental illness sorry

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC's 4th time and said it was the worst. By far.

Your kid needs to give it a rest. Four times is ridiculous.

Says you. DC is already planning for a fifth and sixth.

+1 I probably used to think taking it more than three times was ridiculous, but here we are.

No, it’s still ridiculous. You’ve lost your mind.

No. Your child (or you) has decided to accept whatever best score s/he has made in 2-3 attempts. That's fine, perhaps, for your child. Others are trying to improve for whatever reason is unique to them. You have no idea what other students' individual situations are, and thus cannot make a blanket comment that multiple attemps - beyond your arbitrary number - are "ridiculous."

It’s insane behavior suggesting mental illness sorry

DP. Mental illness? On the contrary, it would be crazy for my kid, whose application is really strong in every other way, to quit now if she still has a few more opportunities. It’s a couple hundred dollars extra. (I know, privilege.) But others are spending multiple thousands on private counselors and whatnot. At least the kid actually has to put some effort into the testing. No big deal whatsoever.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DC's 4th time and said it was the worst. By far.

Your kid needs to give it a rest. Four times is ridiculous.

My kid also taking for 4th time and already has 770 on both sections. I think a complete waste of time but kid is a perfectionist. Thought in line with other tests, also took last August.

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Anonymous wrote:DC's 4th time and said it was the worst. By far.

Your kid needs to give it a rest. Four times is ridiculous.

Says you. DC is already planning for a fifth and sixth.

+1 I probably used to think taking it more than three times was ridiculous, but here we are.

No, it’s still ridiculous. You’ve lost your mind.

No. Your child (or you) has decided to accept whatever best score s/he has made in 2-3 attempts. That's fine, perhaps, for your child. Others are trying to improve for whatever reason is unique to them. You have no idea what other students' individual situations are, and thus cannot make a blanket comment that multiple attemps - beyond your arbitrary number - are "ridiculous."

It’s insane behavior suggesting mental illness sorry

DP. Mental illness? On the contrary, it would be crazy for my kid, whose application is really strong in every other way, to quit now if she still has a few more opportunities. It’s a couple hundred dollars extra. (I know, privilege.) But others are spending multiple thousands on private counselors and whatnot. At least the kid actually has to put some effort into the testing. No big deal whatsoever.

It’s not the money, weirdo. What you’re doing is harmful to your child. I mean be serious — you’re on a website discussing a test that your kid has taken FOUR times. You’re obsessing. You’re putting unbelievable pressure on your kid. Very bad parenting.

It’s harmful to allow (not force) a child to study for a test and take it four times, months apart? I don’t get it. She wants/needs a higher score to be competitive for the schools she hopes to get into. So she’s working on it. Thats tenacity, in my opinion. (I took it once and did really well. I was always really good at taking tests and people told me I was smart, but I lacked tenacity when things got hard. My kid has to put some effort in to get the results she wants and I think that’s a good thing.)

[Anonymous]

Kid took test in DC.

Said verbal was normal but math was harder than prior tests because it covered topics that kid hasn’t seen in a while.