Don’t panic. First, the “bad” news. According to this SAT score percentile chart, SAT Score Percentiles (High-Precision Version) , you scored in the 47th percentile, which means a little more than 1/2 of SAT takers did better than you. The good news is, who knows if the practice SAT you took is actually like a real SAT. If you took a College Board practice test, it’s probably close, but others may not be. The best news is you CAN improve your score greatly by practicing.
The whole point of taking practice SATs is to improve your score. I am an SAT tutor, and I helped one student raise her score by 360 points. Whether you hire a tutor or not, you should use an SAT review book such as Barron’s SAT (28th, 29th, or 30th edition - the 28th & 29th editions are cheap and just as good as the latest, 30th, edition), any Kaplan or Princeton Review SAT book, or Gruber’s SAT book. I normally use the Barron’s SAT, but any of those are okay. I don’t recommend the official pres guide from the College Board, since they generally don’t cover the “tricks” you can use to do their math problems more quickly and how to avoid the little “tricks” or “traps” in their questions (think about it - that would be like the police telling you where the speed traps are located on the highways). The idea is to learn the SAT tips and tricks as well as the relevant subject material (high school math, reading, grammar, and essay writing), which you can learn from any test prep course, book, or tutor. Here’s my YouTube channel John Linneball Tutoring - it has many free videos that may help you improve your score, including many keyed to the Barron’s SAT book. Hope this helps! Click here to see the original answer on Quora. Of course, there’s always a concern that students will cheat, share answers, copy questions, etc. If the ACT is giving tests over 2 days, they can easily use two (or more) different ACT tests. Teachers/professors/instructors have been doing this for a LONG time - a really good teacher will give a different test to a student who missed the original test. The ACT and SAT are standardized tests, which means they’re designed to be equally difficult. In an ideal world (at least for the ACT and SAT people), it wouldn’t matter how many times the student took the test, or what test version the student took, the score would always be the same. In the real world, they come fairly close. Discrepancies are usually from explainable factors (the kid studied between tests and improved his or her score; the kid was sick one test day and not the other; or the kid cheated- see below for a discussion of how discrepancies are handled). I’m not saying that’s what the ACT will do, but it’s likely. Additionally, the ACT people probably do what the SAT people at the College Board do - they cross-check scores against reported school grades, etc., so “outliers” (e.g., a D student who gets a near-perfect score) can be investigated. Sometimes such people are asked to re-take the test; sometimes the matter goes to arbitration; sometimes the student and test company agree to have the score canceled. Don’t worry - the ACT people most likely have things under control - very few people are going to get an unfair advantage on the test. Click here to see the original answer on Quora.
No. Apply for financial aid - the truly elite schools have “need-blind” application processes, so they won’t judge your application based on your financial need. Even with non-need-blind admission, you might as well let your prospective colleges know what kind of aid you’ll need, so they can (tactfully) reject you if they know they won’t be able to help you get the aid you need.
You might even want to ask the school’s financial aid department if it’s realistic for you to expect to be able to attend their school. It’s really unfortunate that student loans have become so privatized and predatory during the decades since I was in school, because banks will now gladly lend you enough money to put yourself into crippling debt for the rest of your life (or at least 20–30 years). Avoid taking out private (as opposed to federal or state) loans if that is at all possible. A plusher and more fun college experience isn’t worth ruining your financial future. In practically all cases, a cheaper state university will teach you exactly the same things an expensive private one will, even if some things are annoying and cheesy (relative course availability, facilities, etc). Good luck! There are a few reasons, most of which have already been addressed in other answers. As people have stated, it’s much easier to have a letter in a file than to play phone tag with a teacher/supervisor/professor/coworker who may be extremely busy and hard to reach by phone. That can waste a LOT of time, and won’t win you any points with the person checking, or the person providing, your reference. Also, as stated in other answers, it’s easier for a reference to compose a thoughtful, articulate written letter over some time than it is for the same person to come up with an equally good oral reference extemporaneously on the phone.
Finally, there’s a legal issue. As far as I can see, no one’s addressed this yet. Written communications are undeniable. What I mean by “undeniable” is that neither the person writing the recommendation nor the person reading it can really deny what was written or who wrote it, if there’s a signed reference letter on file. People can get upset over not being selected for jobs, colleges, etc., and lawsuits are not uncommon. From an employer or school’s point of view, the most “lawsuit proof” way to handle allegations of false or unfair recommendations causing an applicant to lose a job wrongfully is simply to require written recommendations. It’s probably a good idea for those parties simply to have NO oral communications with references - to make everything in writing (letters, email, faxes, etc.) [No, I’m not your attorney and this is not legal advice - it’s for discussion only. Hire an attorney if you need one.]. Hope this helps! Click here to see this response on Quora. I’m fairly certain anyone can take the SAT if he or she pays the money, fills out the application, etc. A GED doesn’t disqualify you from applying to take the SAT, to attend college, or anything else. It is supposed to be literally a “general equivalency diploma” - the equivalent of a high school diploma.
I’m not going to lie to you - it’s not as good as getting an actual high school diploma, in that employers, colleges, etc. will wonder why you didn’t just finish high school. You will have to work harder to prove two things: (1) that you weren’t/aren’t too stupid to finish normal high school; and (2) that you don’t have serious problems with authority or a serious inability to get along with other people. Most people I know who didn’t complete high school basically had a hard time in environments with people weren’t nice to them, so high school pretty intolerable for them, even though they were obviously smart enough to pass high school. Click here for Quora. Yes. It’s “standardized,” which is basically “graded on a curve,” or curved. If you mean the shape of the test, then, no, it’s on flat rectangular paper like most other documents. But, all joking aside, yes, the ACT is graded on a curve, since it, like any standardized test, is designed to produce a normal curve when the scores are laid out by percentile.
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Source Material For this Video: Barron’s SAT Premium Study Guide (30th Edition of the Barron’s SAT study guide) Barron’s Educational Services, New York, NY. My general knowledge and what I could access/verify using Google. Links for References/Links to Relevant Topics: Free, Full-Length, Official College Board SAT Practice Tests. https://collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/sat/practice/full-length-practice-tests A Few More Notes/Requests: Please "like" this video and subscribe to my channel if you liked it! This is the best way to help me, and it costs you NOTHING. I get ad money if I get 1000 subscribers and 4000 hours of watch time in a year. I have a new site on locals.com – testpreparation.locals.com Check it out! There will be exclusive content on there for my supporters. I have a new Patreon page! Here's the link if you'd like to donate, and if you have ideas about what I should offer to Patreon patrons. Please let me know - I have no idea what you, my audience, would like to see there. https://www.patreon.com/JohnLinneball If you found this video helpful, why not consider helping me make more videos (each one of these takes hours to make!) by donating a couple of dollars or more through my PayPal at https://paypal.me/johnlinneball ? I'll never CHARGE to see my videos, but I'd appreciate your support. Thanks in advance! Don’t panic. First, the “bad” news. According to this SAT score percentile chart, SAT Score Percentiles (High-Precision Version) , you scored in the 47th percentile, which means a little more than 1/2 of SAT takers did better than you. The good news is, who knows if the practice SAT you took is actually like a real SAT. If you took a College Board practice test, it’s probably close, but others may not be. The best news is you CAN improve your score greatly by practicing.
The whole point of taking practice SATs is to improve your score. I am an SAT tutor, and I helped one student raise her score by 360 points. Whether you hire a tutor or not, you should use an SAT review book such as Barron’s SAT (28th, 29th, or 30th edition - the 28th & 29th editions are cheap and just as good as the latest, 30th, edition), any Kaplan or Princeton Review SAT book, or Gruber’s SAT book. I normally use the Barron’s SAT, but any of those are okay. I don’t recommend the official pres guide from the College Board, since they generally don’t cover the “tricks” you can use to do their math problems more quickly and how to avoid the little “tricks” or “traps” in their questions (think about it - that would be like the police telling you where the speed traps are located on the highways). The idea is to learn the SAT tips and tricks as well as the relevant subject material (high school math, reading, grammar, and essay writing), which you can learn from any test prep course, book, or tutor. Here’s my YouTube channel John Linneball Tutoring - it has many free videos that may help you improve your score, including many keyed to the Barron’s SAT book. Hope this helps! |
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