I only scored in the 88th percentile on the Reading and Writing portion of the SAT. How should I kill myself, and what is the last book I should read? >I'm 18

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Anonymous Thu Oct 27 20:49:46 2016 No.8665978 [Reply] [Original]

I only scored in the 88th percentile on the Reading and Writing portion of the SAT. How should I kill myself, and what is the last book I should read?

>I'm 18

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 27 20:51:51 2016 No.8665987 my diary desu

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 27 20:53:43 2016 No.8666000 File: 228 KB, 1084x1080, spookstirn.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Ego and it's Own, you are mortally spooked.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 27 20:56:21 2016 No.8666011 >>8665978 Depends, reading and writing have been separate sections for years now, meaning you must have taken the test as a small child. I bet you'd do better taking it now.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 27 20:59:25 2016 No.8666028 >>8665978 > tfw got perfect score on reading > cratered the math Why is life so cruel

Anonymous Thu Oct 27 21:05:39 2016 No.8666052

>>8666028

I did the same. Just get one of those test taking books, they tell you exactly how to get the test answer by methods that are useless anywhere else in life. I raised my score 130 points all the way to 700. It's funny, because I only got one more q wrong than I did in reading. I guess my cohort sucks at reading but has a clump of super math achievers ruining the curve for everyone.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 27 21:07:59 2016 No.8666059 >800 reading >670 maths >660 writing At least I'm good at one of them.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 27 21:11:07 2016 No.8666072 File: 51 KB, 657x527, 1467346124552.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >only 95th percentile in reading FUCK

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 27 21:24:18 2016 No.8666126 >>8665978 i think i went 790 math, 760 reading, and then cratered writing - like 630. but now im way better at writing than math or reading.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 27 21:32:05 2016 No.8666164 >taking the SAT wew The ACT is the only useful test -- writing optional, English and Science instead.

Anonymous Thu Oct 27 21:38:27 2016 No.8666189
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>>8666164

>800 CR
> 780 Math
>650 Writing
>tfw I probably could've gotten into Yale if it wasn't for my writing score

The new SAT reverted back to the old, two-part (M, CR) SAT, which would've been great when I was testing. Life is unfair.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 27 21:45:19 2016 No.8666208 File: 1.10 MB, 1601x850, 1471153044254.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8665978 >tfw I saved my ass by copying the math section off the guy next to me

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 27 21:48:48 2016 No.8666219 File: 432 KB, 1280x720, 1474161188988.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] SAT Reading and Writing 97th percentile ACT English 92nd percentile ACT Reading 89th percentile ACT Writing 97th percentile

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 27 21:49:50 2016 No.8666225 >it's a jerk off to your SAT score thread but 800 reading 730 math 720 writing, tfw modern renaissance man ubermensch genius top mind

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 27 21:49:57 2016 No.8666226 >>8666028 Same

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 27 21:51:00 2016 No.8666231 35 on the ACT. I only remember I got perfect on the science section but did worst on math.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 27 21:52:28 2016 No.8666234 >>8666164 >useful >standardized test both of them are just tests of aptitude.

Anonymous Thu Oct 27 21:54:56 2016 No.8666251
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>tfw I got a great score on both sections (1480 combined) but I still won't get into a decent liberal arts college because of my shit 3.3 GPA
>tfw my class rigor is also as good as it gets but I won't get into a decent LAC because I've been too unstable (I'm bipolar) to have the consistency needed for good grades

Should I just kill myself now? All I want to do is study /lit/ and economics at a cozy-ass liberal arts college with interesting people but because of my tucked up brain I will only be accepted at shit tier ones (and will most likely just end up at my state school because it's probably not worth going into debt for a school that isn't that great)

Anonymous Thu Oct 27 21:55:01 2016 No.8666252

>>8666231
I have no idea how people do well on the science section. I guess people prepare for it, because it totally fucks you in the ass if you have no idea how to perform an extremely time efficient exegesis of the graphs, words, and numbers vomited across the page.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 27 21:56:08 2016 No.8666256 >>8666252 Admittedly I was sick at the time, but I literally was only halfway done when time was up So yeah, I ended up taking the SAT

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 27 22:01:22 2016 No.8666280 >>8666231 My reading score was always magnitudes above the rest of them. Got around 30-31's in the English section despite that. I honestly don't see how anyone could less than a 32 on the reading section

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 27 22:01:23 2016 No.8666281 Got 1580 as a non-native first timer. 800 on the math. Only got 6/6/6 out of 8/8/8 on the essay though and I can't understand why.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 27 22:02:51 2016 No.8666287 >>8666028 Exactly me, for the first time I took it. Second time I got lucky, and my exam proctor fell asleep. I was able to spend all the extra time I had after finishing reading sections to do extra work for the math ones.

Anonymous Thu Oct 27 22:05:04 2016 No.8666298

>>8666252
>I have no idea how people do well on the science section
this
i missed 0 on the reading section of the act and got a 32 or 33 overall but i would have had a 34 or 35 if i hadnt bombed the science section. the only time in my life ive ever run out of time on a test

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 27 22:14:14 2016 No.8666339 >>8666252 The only prep was a practice exam. I took the ACT as a sophmore too and science was my best score then as well.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 27 22:41:48 2016 No.8666435 Join the army. Read a lot while you're in, don't get blown up (unless you're serious about killing yourself) get out and go to school.

>>	TWPoet !!mQAvKw6nzRr Thu Oct 27 22:53:09 2016 No.8666469 >>8665978 Continuously drink coffee as you read all of Shakespeare's works in one sitting.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 27 22:58:00 2016 No.8666484 >tfw homeschooled >never taken the SATs or ACTs >tfw i would probably fail miserably if i did >tfw the idiot

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 27 23:01:39 2016 No.8666498 My inability to meet standards of tests such as the SAT is fucking with me. I feel awful because of it. I would like to live on a mountain.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 27 23:07:28 2016 No.8666524 >>8666251 Someone please respond so I don't kill myself

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 27 23:08:44 2016 No.8666527 >>8666251 >>8666524 >Should I just kill myself now? Yes

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 28 00:17:08 2016 No.8666730 bump

Anonymous Fri Oct 28 00:20:59 2016 No.8666737

>didn't take SAT because not a yankee
>got 36 on both english and reading
>got 34 in science, 33 in math
>tfw I wanted to be a physics major at UChicago

in another life I would have done a comfy af history degree at Yale and then gone to law school

i fucked up hard by deciding to go into engineering at an sec school, i fucking hate my life

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 28 00:27:07 2016 No.8666759 >>8666251 You can absolutely get into a mid tier LAC

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 28 00:27:35 2016 No.8666762 >>8666251 Get your bp treated and stable before you head off to college. Nothing wrong with state school, you just gotta be in the upper range among your peers.

Anonymous Fri Oct 28 00:29:41 2016 No.8666768

>>8665978
I got 98% on the GRE writing and I'm in STEM. You should probably start those job applications dude.

Realtalk, SAT means nothing, undergrad means nothing. Work your ass off wherever you go and prove yourself with CONTENT, not a degree. Gradschool is where the location counts.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 28 00:44:55 2016 No.8666803 >>8666052 I got around 740 for all sections, it was easy as fuck. What are you guys on about

Anonymous Fri Oct 28 00:45:31 2016 No.8666807

>>8666759
Any suggestions? I'm having trouble finding many

>>8666762

Thanks. I just started seeing a psychiatrist so hopefully things will get better.

>Nothing wrong with state school, you just gotta be in the upper range among your peers.

I know, and mine is decent (UIUC), I just think I would enjoy learning more and fit in better at an LAC.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 28 00:46:34 2016 No.8666811 >>8666768 Doesn't your undergrad in many ways determine the grad school you can get accepted into?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 28 00:49:21 2016 No.8666821 >>8666807 go to your state school then transfer to a top 20 school. All you have to do is get a 3.7 in college. Your test scores show you are bright, but you need to show that you can handle college coursework. If you do that, you're golden.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 28 00:49:24 2016 No.8666822 >>8666811 no some ugs are feeder schools to top grad programs but you can get in from anywhere. if you go to a bad school in the heartland though..... good luck

Anonymous Fri Oct 28 00:52:41 2016 No.8666832

>>8666811
>>8666822

Undergrads everywhere are dumb.
I am by no means at a top school but I have visited/worked in some top 20ish schools and the undergrads there are the same distribution of idiots to inspired as any other place.
If you show you can do the work and actually care you can get into a good gradschool. It really is 90% perspiration.

Anonymous Fri Oct 28 00:53:28 2016 No.8666834

>>8666821
Doesn't transferring kind of suck socially? I'd imagine that many friends are made in the first semester right?

I mean I can deal with that but I already did that in high school and it definitely sucks a little (but college might be different).

>All you have to do is get a 3.7 in college

Is this really true? That seems crazy

Also, is this transferring after the first semester, or first year?

Anonymous Fri Oct 28 00:57:11 2016 No.8666842

>>8666834
You would think so, but I found it easier making friends after transferring to Brown than my first year at UCLA. Almost everyone lives on campus and it's easy to get involved. Sure, the first few weeks/months will be hard (and it will seem like freshman orientation all over again), but I don't regret transferring one bit.

Anonymous Fri Oct 28 01:05:33 2016 No.8666865

>740 reading
>740 writing
>690 math
Surprised I still remember those (I'm 25). Daily reminder that standardized tests are racist and classist.

>>8666251
Literally nobody cares where you go/went to college after high school. Just pick somewhere where you are likely to enjoy the culture. Seriously, don't beat yourself up over it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 28 01:09:15 2016 No.8666875 >>8666865 >Just pick somewhere where you are likely to enjoy the culture. That's the whole problem. They won't let me in (probably)

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 28 01:30:34 2016 No.8666940 >>8666028 My man

Anonymous Fri Oct 28 01:35:27 2016 No.8666959
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>>8665978
kek. I scored 99th in reading and 93rd in writing on the GRE. Don't off yourself yet kid, you can take another set of meaningless standardized tests to validate your unwarranted sense of self worth. It's much more satisfying to score extremely well on standardized tests only to watch everyone who is objectively dumber than you do much better in life.

Honestly the scores I got horrified me more than anything. I got 73rd percentile in math despite only taking some stats in undergrad and precalc in high school and NOT STUDYING AT ALL for the GRE. I'm fucking amazed that that many grad students are that goddamned stupid.

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>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 28 13:19:07 2016 No.8668253 >caring about tests lmao

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 28 13:23:16 2016 No.8668264 >>8666208 Based

Anonymous Fri Oct 28 13:36:35 2016 No.8668296
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>>8666028
>Get a 32 on the reading portion of the ACT
>Get a 30 on the Writing portion

>16 in math

So here I am three years later finishing up the last of my remedial math classes. I just want to die.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 28 13:37:01 2016 No.8668298 >>8668253 >Caring about a thing that is key to get into a good college and by extension a good career

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 28 13:38:08 2016 No.8668303 >>8668296 That's actually kind of impressive.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 28 13:53:29 2016 No.8668367 >>8665978 lol I scored in the 93rd for the CARS section of the MCAT

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 28 13:58:46 2016 No.8668383 I got 800s in math and writing, 770 in reading yes, I know this is a lame bragging post.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 28 14:10:31 2016 No.8668427 >>8668298 Jesus christ you are spooked

Anonymous Fri Oct 28 14:41:10 2016 No.8668545

I remember when I wanted to study film after highschool. I'd pretty much given up on the idea of getting into the Computer Science field, and flunked my math exams.

Unfortunately for me, being good at just English isn't good enough to get a high ATAR (the score that decides what university courses we can get into in Australia), so there go my dream of becoming a film director.

Now I'm on my way to becoming an F/A-18 pilot.

I fucking hate my teenage self.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 28 14:46:03 2016 No.8668553 >>8666832 this is true but the higher up you go the less drooling retards there are. top schools might not be full of geniuses, but there are far fewer 70 iq "humans"

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 28 16:52:31 2016 No.8668917 >>8666011 You fool, the new SAT released just this year recombined the sections

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 28 20:03:42 2016 No.8669586 >>8668545 Your in ADFA doing your degree or are you on to pilot training? how is it? I did the initial testing n shit but didn't go further, just finished my last hsc exam 2 days ago

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 28 21:01:31 2016 No.8669781 >>8666028 are you me?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 28 23:56:03 2016 No.8670211 >>8666803 They have different criteria for the SAT writing than they do on their other exams. Not everyone was taught their specific bullshit formula. Also, we did better than you at the reading.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 29 02:27:53 2016 No.8670446 >>8665978 >not getting a 36 and 3 4 on Eng and reading, respectively

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 29 02:40:55 2016 No.8670461 Anyone here an Ausfag? 93 Atar with little effort 46 in English and 40 in Literature respectively.

Anonymous Sat Oct 29 02:56:08 2016 No.8670480

>>8668553
I went from a garbage community college with literally illiterate people, to a high tier state school, to Ivy+, and I miss the drooling retards.

The retards were just normal people getting professional degrees. All the state and Ivy+ kids are insufferable sweater-vest wearing fucking rich faggots, and they're just as dumb.

It sucks ass. At high level schools you're just trapped in this kind of holodeck simulation for rich kids to try out their Rich Upper Class Elite personas and registers. You can FEEL the tentativeness and hollowness of their personalities when you talk to them. Everything they do is just an experiment in what affected "did you know I'm terribly, terribly succesful?" little identity they can construct for themselves.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 29 03:06:19 2016 No.8670489 >>8670461 Fug m8. I only got 80, 7 years ago.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 29 04:14:08 2016 No.8670559 >>8670489 I'm doing VCE this year and that's what I'm aiming for. Not that high but I'm not trying to get into medicine or anything

Anonymous Sat Oct 29 04:43:31 2016 No.8670588

Don't worry. I absolutely bombed my ACT because I hadn't slept that night, was ridden with anxiety, and had untreated ADHD. I got into a nice college though and am making the best grades (keeping up a 3.8), get complimented by professors often. Studying for the GRE now and am scoring very well on practice exams.

Standardized tests arent the end, I promise.

Anonymous Sat Oct 29 04:57:12 2016 No.8670604

>>8670588
Unsolicited tip for the GREs: Expect not to have any time to plan out, execute, and review an essay on the essay-writing portions.

Start practicing with real essays from the real essay bank (it's online I'm sure you know) that you HAVEN'T already seen and had time to think about. Seriously, don't go glance at the essay bank and then spitball what your answer might be to one of the essays while making coffee, and then sit down and start practicing writing it. Go to a totally random topic, get blasted with it, and give yourself a hard 30 minutes to get the whole thing typed and finished. You will find that the "plan, write, review" thing probably doesn't work, and you're struggling to write a half-baked piece of crap because time flies faster than you anticipated.

Do this as many times as you need to get yourself used to that time crunch.

t. got a 6.0 on the essay-writing portion. I totally spitballed that shit and I type freakishly fast, 170wpm or so. But I was panicking for time, I wasted minutes on a failed attempt to review that just ended in my mind blanking because I could see my remaining seconds ticking away, and I'm still surprised I got the whole thing done.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 29 05:39:06 2016 No.8670642 >Murricans have to do maths and science after the age of 16 even if they're shit at them Heh.

Anonymous Sat Oct 29 12:18:48 2016 No.8671189

>>8669586
Nah, I'm not in the ADFA, didn't get a high enough ATAR to be able to study there. Just doing my pilot training.

It's difficult, I'll tell you that. First time I applied I got rejected and waited another year to get fit enough and then applied again and managed to get in.

I've got a younger brother who's in VCE, and he just started his exams, won't finish until mid November, he's also interested in joining the Air Force.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 29 12:22:04 2016 No.8671194 >>8666028 Am I you? No, no it couldn't be. Well, maybe. What's your dog's name? This is the only way for us to tell. TELL ME DAMN IT.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 29 12:22:21 2016 No.8671195 File: 23 KB, 541x350, received_1210547399009875.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] And I am from Canada. where I live we got UBC so I dont need your Murican education

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 29 13:11:05 2016 No.8671316 >>8665978 >tfw perfect reading score on PSAT > tfw missed one question on actual SAT

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 29 15:22:16 2016 No.8671738 >>8665978 I got an 18 on my ACT. I did really bad in Math is all I can recall. I graduated high school in 2009.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 29 15:48:36 2016 No.8671812 >>8665978 >tfw 800/800 on reading SAT without studying My Jewish verbal intelligence ehehehehehe, get jewed goyim

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 29 15:49:40 2016 No.8671813 >>8666028 Same but I got a 700/800 ahhahaha stupid goys

Anonymous Sat Oct 29 21:03:00 2016 No.8672748

>first time taking SAT
>730 reading, 660 math, 550 essay
>did bad at math because I'M TOO SLOW
>practice it online some to get my speed up
>retake it, get 740 reading, 740 math, 650 essay (I didn't practice at all for the essay so it was a fluke)

Senior in college now, here's hoping I can do well enough on the GRE to offset my meh GPA (or actually find a job, that too).

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 29 21:04:12 2016 No.8672753 its a shit test senpai, don't worry about it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 29 21:22:46 2016 No.8672802 >>8670461 >99+ You should've put in the effort lad. Im on a comfy scholarship now. well worth it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 29 22:14:04 2016 No.8672960 >>8665978 >tfw 99th percentile in all categories >tfw perfect score on essay plebs the lot of you

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 29 22:15:36 2016 No.8672966 >>8668298 Lmao kid, you shouldn't be posting in here if you aren't in a good college anyways. Keep circle jerking and humblebragging about your tests, rebbit

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 29 22:16:51 2016 No.8672971 >>8672748 Why would anyone here care about what you just posted ? Or nobody in your life cares enough about your test scores that you need to post it here

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 29 22:24:55 2016 No.8672994 File: 113 KB, 777x437, stirner.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >never took the SAT because I dropped out of the 6th grade

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 29 22:48:32 2016 No.8673089 I dropped out of school completely at 13, OP. You're probably fine.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 29 23:18:11 2016 No.8673193 >>8665978 >TFW when 99th percentile on all sections >TFW to smart too want a nonloli-gf

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 29 23:44:51 2016 No.8673256 >>8666251 I had a 3.3 and I go to William and Mary which is a decent, public liberal arts school. I had a 1540 tho

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 30 02:00:41 2016 No.8673513 >>8665978 I scored 98th percentile >:)

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 30 03:11:46 2016 No.8673613 >>8670480 I know this feeling exactly. I have yet to find a friend of the caliber hoped for. Good luck

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 30 05:30:45 2016 No.8673833 >>8672802 I should have, it looks as if I'm bragging about my lack of effort but it is actually the definition of mediocrity. I envy your work ethic.

Anonymous Sun Oct 30 06:49:44 2016 No.8673917

I took the ACT with a QT3.14 whom I was a beta-orbiter of and I also have really bad anxiety so in the parking lot while we were walking in I actually threw up on my shoes right in front of her. And even at this pathetic moment I STILL tried to play it off cool, like "oh wow, heh" while just looking down at the chewed up Lucky Charms on the pavement that my mom had prepared for me that morning for my "big day" and the impossibility of my existence which mommy has no idea of filled me with despair. Then we went inside and she sat right next to me and my stomach was FUCKED UP the entire time, like I had to shit and fart the entire test and I have IBS so I was sure I was going to shit my pants. We only got like 1 bathroom break and I just sat in the stall the entire time afraid to even leave the toilet because I know I would shit right when I got back to my desk.
This was my state of being during the test and I STILL got a 30.

Anonymous Sun Oct 30 13:20:37 2016 No.8674601

>>8666811
Undergrad rankings are largely worthless. The only difference in quality between programs is the availability of extracurricular activities. If you want to go to grad school the best thing to do is get close with 3 professors and assist them on some project for at least 2 semesters each. If there are grad school prep programs (you want the kind that pay you not the ones you pay for) available you should take advantage of them as well.

Publishing papers, patents, or creative writings are another good way to get noticed by a graduate program.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 30 13:24:03 2016 No.8674608 File: 16 KB, 250x240, 1421003215432.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >tfw shitass awful sat score >tfw 35 on act Feels good man

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 30 21:01:33 2016 No.8676112 test

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 31 03:04:58 2016 No.8676961 >>8666028 Did the ACT and not the SAT but same here. 36 in reading, 34 in writing, 34 in science, 19 in math. MFW I'm majoring in Electrical Engineering.

Anonymous Mon Oct 31 03:24:34 2016 No.8676996
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>was always the greasy kid sleeping in back of the class
>people i sort of know in front of me talking about their test scores
>hey anon how'd you do on the SAT
>2290
>they're really surprised
>hey that's great anon
>teacher maybe overheard, and I think I see her eyes light up in shock, just a little
>still one of my happiest memories to this day
>i let everyone down and work part time in fast food

Sorry for the blog post. Thanks.

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