Ah that's why I feel at home on here. My whole family is nothing but former gifted kids.
Side note, I'm pretty excited to finally see accurate information on Twitter of all places
I took the PSAT twice a year apart, as was standard in my district, and got literally exactly the same score. I figure this solidly proves that sophomore year of high school is useless and should be jettisoned.
Haha I did better than every one of my friends and they ALL have better jobs than I do now.
Fucked up mental health is a bitch, turns out! Also no one is paying money for being good at standardized tests. Almost like it's a meaningless metric 🤔
Not only can I quote you mine, I can and will argue that the re-norming of the scoring some years afterward has personally harmed me by making me seem less impressive to the kind of people who would be impressed by that kind of thing.
Same. Mine was in ‘81, and back then it was high enough to get me into Mensa. I’m a Canadian and took the SAT because I was thinking about going to a US school, but since we don’t use them up here, wasn’t aware people did test prep beforehand. I just showed up and took the test. 🤷♂️
Oh I can cite you the IQ test I did as an adult for a study someone was running, but I promise I won't because my IQ is high enough to know how bullshit IQ is (and how unhelpful it is in building relationships!)
We need a club for the Terminally Score Burdened.
Don’t I know it! I spent most of my early school years (in the ‘60s and ‘70s) being dragged out of classes for test, going for head x-rays and encephalograms, and for years though it was because my last name was near the top of the alphabet. Smart but not bright, if you know what I mean.
wait, you can prioritise what you remember? i can still order a carpet from Empire even though im in a different hemisphere now but can’t seem to get the 4-digit office door code right until the third try
Yeah, same - my HS principal cornered me to berate me about how it wouldn't be good enough for [our second-most-prestigious state school], and I got through the whole thing by thinking about how I hadn't even applied there. Burned in my memory for all the wrong reasons!
Yes, but mostly because my then-girlfriend had the same total, a bit more verbal for her and math for me,
and my combination of ADHD, introversion, depression, and cluelessness means it took a long time before I understood why that relationship didn't last long.
I remember mine and I’m like 40. I think the SAT was talked about so much in high school I put an unusual amount of importance on it. Now it’s burned in my brain like an SSN.
