Poll: Escapists: What did you score on the ACT/SAT?

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took it eh...4 years ago? 5?

but I got a 30 on the ACT, one and done, couldn't have cared less to take that damn test again. I did pretty damn good except for getting a stupid 23 on the english portion, dragged my three other great scores down, was quite peeved about that when english doesn't matter in the slightest in engineering.

Regardless, fuck standardized testing under time limits. Just go to a tech or community college for a year or two and knock out all your general educations at a much cheaper price then transfer into a 4 year college.
 
Sep 14, 2009
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Sonic Doctor said:
I believe I got something between 900 to 950 on the old Sat. I don't remember exactly. It didn't matter because I was all set to go to a two year university that accepts anyone and then later after I graduated from their I transferred to a four year school and graduated from there as well.

I was just glad that I beat average time that in normally takes people in the US to get a four year degree. It took me six years and the average is seven years. The US's encouragement to the young that all should go to college after high school is one of the reasons for that average, but I think the real heart of the matter is hosed up curriculum that most colleges in the US have where the students have to take at least two or three classes of almost every flavor of subject, no matter what the students' majors are. Well rounded individual my ass, they just want to keep people there longer so they get more money. Physical Education(gym class) should not be a required class in college. I didn't learn anything new that I hadn't learned in grade school gym classes. The only reason I can see that they require it so that people that chose to be gym/health professors actually have people to teach, because if they didn't require such classes, the only people that would end up taking them are people in college sports for training purposes and health nuts, and that is a very small percentage of people.

To the young people on this forum that haven't got to college yet:

Don't believe your teachers or anyone else that tells you that colleges/universities are where you go to focus your studies on the one thing you want to do. That is a bullshit line.

30%, and that percentage looks to be growing, of your college classes will have nothing to do with your major. I was an English major, so I didn't mind my English core non-major curriculum classes at all(the base comp class, 2 literature, and a speech class), but when on top of that I had to take, two math classes, two lab sciences, two history, psychology, sociology, a gym and health duo class, philosophy, and a base humanities class(art history and whatnot). It's worse if you an "of Arts" degree instead an "of Science", because for the "Arts" degree as the moronic added core requirement of four semesters/classes of a foreign language. Even at the base, that is over one year of classes taken up by that stupid core curriculum. That's a year that could be used for more important endeavors like more time looking for work, or extra major classes that actually are useful.

Okay whatever, I got off track and rambled, but I really do have serious grudge against college curriculums, that stupid foreign language requirement was the reason I couldn't major in creative writing(because that is an "of Arts" degree). I had to do a Rhetoric and Writing degree and take creative writing classes as my electives, so I didn't have to waste my time and money on useless foreign language classes that I would never use.
amen to all that. I'm getting sick and tired of taking classes that have no relevant use to me out in the real world when I get a job and have absolutely nothing to do with my major, they say my degree takes 126 credit hours to graduate, which is total horseshit when you include all the pre-requisites and extra crap, ends up being around 147 for everyone I've talked with.
 

Mr Fixit

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Eh I never took it, the college I dropped out of didn't require it so I just had to take a couple placement tests. Call me a cheap ass, but I wasn't paying someone to give me a test when it wasn't required.
 

Spud of Doom

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Feels very USA in here. I'm struggling to even think of any kind of equivalent I could provide from New Zealand. There really isn't anything that's nation-wide as a single test.
 

Spud of Doom

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Sonic Doctor said:
30%, and that percentage looks to be growing, of your college classes will have nothing to do with your major.
This doesn't sound right to me. I'm currently in my fourth year at university and I have only done 1 paper (1 of 4 that semester) which wasn't directly related to my degree; and that was an optional one that I elected to do. I could have chosen to just do 3 papers that semester.
 

Sonic Doctor

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Spud of Doom said:
Sonic Doctor said:
30%, and that percentage looks to be growing, of your college classes will have nothing to do with your major.
This doesn't sound right to me. I'm currently in my fourth year at university and I have only done 1 paper (1 of 4 that semester) which wasn't directly related to my degree; and that was an optional one that I elected to do. I could have chosen to just do 3 papers that semester.
You must have some awesome universities down in Australia New Zealand(Saw a small Union Jack and just guessed Australia). Granted you probably aren't an English Major, but wow you've only had to write four papers. As I said it took me six years to get my degree, so twelve semesters and I must have written at least 20 papers each semester, considering most of my English classes I had to write at least 4 to 6 for each, around 30 pages of writing for each class. The only non-English classes I remember having to write papers for were my history classes.

But that's off track anyway, I said nothing about papers in my post. I was talking about classes. Did you even read what I said about classes? I even said "classes" in the part of my post you quoted.

I'll reiterate:

I was an English Major, besides Englsih(literature and writing classes) I had to take(bear in mind that these have nothing to do with English):

Three math classes(forgot to say before I had to retake one because when I transferred schools after graduating from the two year university, the new university made me take a stupid competency test and I tested back into the same math class I had just passed before graduating, so I had to take it again to fulfill the core curriculum), two lab sciences, two history classes(American and World), psychology, sociology, philosophy, a basic humanities class(basically an art study, discussion, and history class), and finally a health class and gym class combo(I took weightlifting alongside the health class).

If I'm remembering correctly on how many credits each of those classes was worth, that's 42 credit hours. Now add that to the 124 credit hours I had to take for my English Major, that is 166, now divide 42 by that and you get 25.3%. So in the end, I exaggerated a little, but still that is 25% of the classes I had to take, that didn't have anything to do with furthering my English degree learning. If anything other than a waste of time, it filled my head with unimportant information that distracted me and took valuable brain power from working on my English studies.

And as I said before, I'm glad I didn't go ahead with the Creative Writing degree like I really wanted to, because then I would have had to take four semesters of a foreign language, because Creative Writing is an "of Arts" degree. Those foreign language classes would have been even more useless than the useless "core" curriculum classes I had to take.

Universities in the US, curriculum-wise, have become an exercise in basically going to high school a second time with some extra classes that you want to take for your field added on. Going to a university use to be about students honing their skills in only one area that interested them, because that is what they wanted to do with their lives. Society, at least in the US has become a place where people have to know a good deal about everything and a little more in one area, instead of what it should be; a place where people are specialized in just one thing and if they don't know something they leave it to the people that do know it to do it for them.
 
Aug 1, 2010
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Never had to take it.

I got my AS at 19 and many universities accept that instead of SAT scores.

I may have to take it later, but for now the danger has passed.
 
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Man, it's been a long time since I took it. I have no idea how I would do today.

Back in the day, I think I got a 26 on the ACT. Got a perfect score on the English section, and my overall score would have been high, but I didn't study for it and my score on the math portion was terrible. I didn't really care what I got anyway, as I was only planning on going to community college and transferring to a university from there. Which I did. Standardized tests are pretty useless at determining a person's academic learning or general ability anyway, so I never sweated it.
 

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Got 1600 even. Didn't care because I never really wanted to go down to the states for school. Just wanted to keep my options open.
 

Zombie Sodomy

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Hm. I never checked, but I'm told the SAT, didn't take ACT, was quite high. I was accepted by every school I applied, and Princeton sent me a few letters so I'll assume that's correct. While I don't remember the total number, I remember scoring in the 99th percentile for critical reading and almost as high for writing. For Math I was only better than 60somethingish% of everyone else.
 

Darren716

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I got an 1800 when I took it for the first time a few months ago and I'm hoping to get a 200 or higher when I take it again.
 

TheSchizoid

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I'm pretty sure I had a 25 on my ACTs. I might have done better but the super cold air conditioning in the school I took it in (Which was not my school, all my schools had crap for AC) caused my nose to run like a faucet nearly the entire time. I think I could've done a few points better had it not been for that.
 

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If I recall correctly my scores on Ye Olde SAT where 650 and 640 though I can't remember which was for which section. GRE scores on the other hand are a much more irritating and relevant issue to me at the moment. -_-
 

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I got a perfect score on the ACT (36) and I never took the SAT for real... so I'm not sure. I took a practice SAT and got 232 out of 240 (which I'm assuming equates to 2320 out of 2400 on the new SAT). Ended up being irrelevant because I got a scholarship from an essay contest anyway. And then I dropped out of college (twice (two different schools working on two different majors)) and now work happily (and relatively successfully) from home! Being an unusually competent underachiever is fun!
 

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Sonic Doctor said:
You must have some awesome universities down in Australia New Zealand(Saw a small Union Jack and just guessed Australia). Granted you probably aren't an English Major, but wow you've only had to write four papers. As I said it took me six years to get my degree, so twelve semesters and I must have written at least 20 papers each semester, considering most of my English classes I had to write at least 4 to 6 for each, around 30 pages of writing for each class. The only non-English classes I remember having to write papers for were my history classes.

But that's off track anyway, I said nothing about papers in my post. I was talking about classes. Did you even read what I said about classes? I even said "classes" in the part of my post you quoted.
You've struck upon a linguistic difference between our two regions. Here in NZ we use the word "papers" the way that you refer to "classes" e.g. something like "Physics 102" would be called a paper. We refer to assessed work as assignments, assessments, exams, etc. But not as papers.

If you replace the word paper in my above post with your understanding of "classes" then you get the true meaning. Only 1/4 of 1 of my semesters wasn't related to my course, and it was optional.