SAT score not commensurate with GPA/ AP scores / academic rigor despite prepping and tutoring

[Anonymous]

For people who don’t like the IQ test vibe, just think that the SAT is testing different skills than a math or English class. The test is trying to trick you, by offering attractive but false answers. What it’s testing is your ability to analyze a question REALLY closely. For reading, it’s not at all like an English class. The skill is much closer to that of a lawyer, who is dissecting every word to detect a possible change of meaning. You can be good/bad at that skill even if you’re bad/good at English classes. Same with math. Not saying being good in class doesn’t help, but they’re not precisely the same skills and not easily taught.

Anonymous wrote:SAT is indeed partially an IQ test, figuring out the questions and the answers quickly. Often there is an answer that "looks right" in the verbal if you misunderstand the question. Aptitude. Grades are work and perseverance.

[Anonymous]

OP, your situation is better than the opposite.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, your situation is better than the opposite.

I know! The opposite is my DC.
Feel like OP should celebrate her situation...

[Anonymous]

My kid's friend took it 6 times and finally got a superscore over 1500. She has a 4.0 UW, got into an Ivy ED this month. If your kid has the stamina to just keep taking it, I think she'll get there. The digital SAT is inconsistent so kids are getting scores all over the place.

[Anonymous]

Some schools- like Georgetown- require that you submit all scores!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:SAT is indeed partially an IQ test, figuring out the questions and the answers quickly. Often there is an answer that "looks right" in the verbal if you misunderstand the question. Aptitude. Grades are work and perseverance.

The SAT is neither an intelligence nor an aptitude test. It is an achievement test.