Chariset: RatOmeter: My ASVAB score was my favorite... It apparently showed that I'd make a great nuclear technician.

The Army, Navy, and Marine Corps all really wanted to speak with me after I took the ASVAB, judging by the amount of mail I got from them.

Yeah, it was only after I'd enlisted that I found I was suited to be an officer in a science-oriented field. Shoulda bought some pointy ears.

I was told not to take the SAT because I suck at math. Took the ACT instead, scored high enough for a full ride scholarship. Suck it, SAT! I will not bow to your soul sucking, money wasting dominion.

Klippoklondike: cue the countless "I scored in the 99th percentile" comments

OCCUPY SAT
WE ARE THE 1%

/Wait...

"Sharp-edged"? What the hell does that mean?

Uewebawo: nmrsnr: Mentat: That first math problem was easy.

Only if you're familiar with enough with the notation to know what the difference g(x) = f(x+1) and g(x) = f(x)+1 is. Which is pretty much exactly what the question is asking.

The second math question I couldn't have answered because I forgot how many interior angles a polygon has. Once I looked up it's (n-2)*180 degrees it's not a hard problem either.

for anyone still confused: There are four angles showing above the paper that total to 360 because the four internal angles of a four sided figure total 360. x+y = 80 so the other two angles total 280 degrees and we know they're equal because the problem told us. So the regular polygon covered by the paper has interior angles measuring 140 degrees. Then it's just a matter of figuring out which number of sides generates 140 degree angles in the (n-2)*180 function.

I mentally reconfigured the paper so that both angles were 40 degrees and multiplied by 9 to get 360. If "horizontal" is defined as 0 angles. then side 1 will be at 40 degrees off the original, side 2 at 40+40 degrees, and so on.

I never took the SAT. Ohio schools all cared about the ACT instead. Took it once and was done with it. Got into the school I wanted and away I went.

In hindsight I could have taken it again and gotten the extra point to get a better scholarship at my second choice school, but Im not sure even the extra cash would have persuaded me to go there.

So in even hindersight, Im glad I didnt get that extra point and was pushed toward my second school because I am really happy how my college life turned out.

Of the examples subby gives, "a) pabulum" and "e) ethereal" are the ones that are clearly out of place, and "d) prosaic" is really pushing it. As for my opinion on the SAT, I dropped out of 8th grade and so never had to take it, and by now my brain is probably way too damaged to think I'd ever score higher than the average 3rd grade zombie.

Swoop1809:

Im glad I didnt get that extra point and was pushed toward my second school because I am really happy how my college life turned out.

Do they have free beer at D00k now?

Chariset: b.

No, wait, c.

Ok both math questions were easy. I mean, this is the test you americans teenagers fears? We have a huge test in highschool that is similar, but is designed around what you had as classes. So if you took advanced math, these questions would be the least of your concern.

From the SAT test that the article mentioned:

3. Roy planted 1/5 of his land with corn. If he planted 45 acres of corn, how many acres of land does Roy have?

Is this seriously a highschool level test in your country? This is something you could ask an 8 year old. I'd like to emphasize that the test explicitly allows the use of a calculator as well.

Yankees Team Gynecologist: I know the SAT is full of shiat for the following reasons: 1) you can gain a couple hundred points just by practicing a few times, and c) even I managed to score extremely well.

Every high school should make all their kids take a practice exam at least once.

No. You have to pay for the psat. The Practice SAT.

I made a 2400, which is really spectacular when you consider I took the SAT in 1982, when only 1600 was generally considered possible. I answered all the questions correctly, and added a proof of Fermat's last thereom in the margin. This is why there is an essay portion of the test today.

manimal2878: Yankees Team Gynecologist: I know the SAT is full of shiat for the following reasons: 1) you can gain a couple hundred points just by practicing a few times, and c) even I managed to score extremely well.

Every high school should make all their kids take a practice exam at least once.

No. You have to pay for the psat. The Practice SAT.

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It's Preliminary SAT, not Practice SAT. The PSAT is used for National Merit Scholar stuff; it's not a practice test.

A practice test is what they include at the end of SAT prep books.

Lonestar: Ok both math questions were easy. I mean, this is the test you americans teenagers fears? We have a huge test in highschool that is similar, but is designed around what you had as classes. So if you took advanced math, these questions would be the least of your concern.

This is from the test that everyone would take (barring some ACT only people I guess). If you had taken advanced math, you'd probably also want to take the math specific SAT II test, although I wouldn't say that's a lot better.

Huh, looks like there are two levels of math SAT II now?

turbidum: manimal2878: Yankees Team Gynecologist: I know the SAT is full of shiat for the following reasons: 1) you can gain a couple hundred points just by practicing a few times, and c) even I managed to score extremely well.

Every high school should make all their kids take a practice exam at least once.

No. You have to pay for the psat. The Practice SAT.

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It's Preliminary SAT, not Practice SAT. The PSAT is used for National Merit Scholar stuff; it's not a practice test.

A practice test is what they include at the end of SAT prep books.



You will all bow before the PXJTs!!

"Choose the most correct answer"

I got the math problems just fine, and I've got ten years on this mouth-breather. And I never even finished Algebra II. So much for, "Math is hard! I haven't taken a test in, like, TEN YEARS, doood!!"

And his impressions about the language section, though surely sidesplitting for his equally moronic beer buddies, is entirely irrelevant to their value for the purpose he clearly ascribes to them: evaluating his language aptitude.

Mr. Magary could have saved himself a lot of work by just writing, "I'm extremely stupid, and I can prove it." Even more, for everyone, if he'd told his editor that.

But I still blame myself. It's not like I've never read Deadspin before.