My SAT score was eleventy-kazillion. What was yours?

[shereads]

Couldn't resist. Sorry.

Blame it on insomnia.

 

[Guest]

Wassa SAT score?



Lou

 

[Guest]

We didn't take SATs around here, we took the ACTs.

CM

 

[Guest]

Yeah, I took the 11+.

And I passed.



Fuck knows how.

I did score once when I SAT on a guy's lap. Does that count?

Lou

 

[NoJo]

Yeah, I took the 11+.

And I passed.



Fuck knows how.

I did score once when I SAT on a guy's lap. Does that count?

Lou

Please can you avoid sexual innuendo in this thread. I'm trying to work. Thank you.

P.S. how can you play darts sitting on someone's lap, anyway?

 

[Guest]

Please can you avoid sexual innuendo in this thread. I'm trying to work. Thank you.

P.S. how can you play darts sitting on someone's lap, anyway?

Apologies. I forgot people actually worked.

In answer to your question: it all depends how long the shaft is.

 

[NoJo]

Thanks for changing your AV. But I said "work", not "wank", dammit.

 

[Guest]

Well, stop gawping and get back to work, then!

 

[shereads]

He gawks...He wanks...He scores!

GOOOAAALL!

 

[Svenskaflicka]

We don't have SAT's, we have University Tests. I only got 75%, I think. I had much higher scores from Senior High School, so I used those and not the Test results when I applied to university.

 

[Guest]

 

[oggbashan]

My father used to assess tests for suitability to select staff for the UK Civil Service.

Thirty years later I was doing the same thing for my employer which had been, but was no longer, part of the Civil service.

We compared notes and found that many of the questions asked on the tests he had examined were the same on the tests I was looking at - word for word, number for number.

Later I was unemployed and I applied for a succession of jobs. Several of the potential employers used a set of selection tests.

You don't need to guess - the questions were the same, word for word etc.

The scores were supposed to be given in percentiles of "The average British Middle Manager" i.e. department head not MD.

So a score of 50:50:50 for the three tests would be exactly in the middle of the bell-shaped curve.

I took the test for the first potential employer - a City Hall. I was surprised that the questions were so familiar but I answered them. Results:

Use of English - 97th percentile
Mathematical/Financial - 98th percentile
Spatial Awareness/Logic - 97th percentile.

At the interview, before I was told my scores, I told the interview panel that I had seen the questions before.

"That doesn't matter," was the reply "we use the same questions every time. There is a 5% allowance built in for those who have seen the tests before."

Then they opened the envelope with my test results. If they had allowed the 5% then my results were above the 100th percentile.

I tried to explain to them that on my CV I had said that I had been assessing selection tests. Too late. I'd scared them stiff. The average SUCCESSFUL candidate scored 25:20:25. Maths was weak at City Hall.

A week later, another selection process, the same papers, the same answers. Results 99:100;99.

Rejected by the panel. The Human Resources Manager told me that my scores were higher than the SUM of the four people interviewing me.

I was tested 8 more times in three months - same papers, same questions. I never got three straight 100s but the maths/finance was 100 each time.

What did the tests prove? Nothing except my memory for the questions yet I didn't get employed because my results frightened off potential employers.

***

Years earlier we had a test for clerical staff who wanted promotion. The unit was technical with a few clerks for admin. The technicians thought the clerks' test questions they had been told were TOO simple so when the test was superseded we had a sponsored competition for charity.

20 technicians took the test and 10 clerks. For every mark higher than the pass rate of 125 (50%) the competitors were sponsored one UK pound. The 20 technicians made minus 75 pounds. The clerks made plus 31.

The test was "too easy". The technicians could believe the questions and were looking for the trick, the catch. "The answer to 2 + 2 can't be 4, surely? It must be something more complex." None of the technicians finished all the questions.

In the end the technicians' sponsors paid 200 pounds and the clerks sponsors produced 100.

The test was not to test complexity but speed and reliability. If a clerk was filing papers the employer would want the papers consistently put in the right file and the filing done quickly. The technicians were taught problem solving techniques. They were trying to find and solve problems that didn't exist.

Og

 

[thebullet]

If you add George W's SAT's together with my ex-wife's SAT's, my score is higher - this is TRUE. On the other hand, my ex-wife got all my money and George W. controls the world's oil. I guess that proves that SAT scores don't mean crap.




thebullet's dirty little stories

 

[The_old_man]

Mine were high enough for a small scholarship.

 

[MathGirl]

DurtGurl's scores are the stuff of legend.
MG

 

[shereads]

If you add George W's SAT's together with my ex-wife's SAT's, my score is higher.

Now I see what I've been doing wrong. Thanks, th.

 

[shereads]

Mine were high enough for a small scholarship.

Mine were small enough for high drama.

 

[destinie21]

Mine were small enough for high drama.

To quote my 83 y/o grandmother my smarts were wasted on those little doodles I do (I'm a fashion designer.)
mY Grandmother is the High preistess of drama.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

We don't exactly have SATs, but you don't want to know.

 

[lucky-E-leven]

my SAT scores...nothing to scoff at but I use those same smarts to write porn. I also do other retarded things like flash people at Mardi Gras and run Chinese Fire Drills around my Volkswagen in front of the Police Station, so I'm not sure test scores are a good indicator of anything.

Except maybe to point out pompous young boys who throw their scores around like a shiny first place medal won for running track. And subsequently get bitchslapped by three Lit threads simultaneously. High test scores or not...that boy has talent.

-lucky

 

[shereads]

The scores were supposed to be given in percentiles of "The average British Middle Manager" i.e. department head not MD.

That would be the most wonderful job title to have on one's business card. Honestly.

 

[MNGuy]

Never took the SAT or ACT. My PSAT score was high enough to get into the college I wanted.

 

[shereads]

Never took the SAT or ACT. My PSAT score was high enough to get into the college I wanted.

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[Icingsugar]

Never took the SAT or ACT. My PSAT score was high enough to get into the college I wanted.

I have no idea what a SAT, an ACT or a PSAT is, but I think the same thing applies to me.

/Ice

 

[MNGuy]

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All I had to do was draw Skippy.

I got into college fine. Even got exempted from freshman English, only 1 of the 7 of the incoming class. But I still had to satisfy the English requirement. Earned my two degrees. Nailed some college girls. Drank some beer. Did some bongs. Everything was fine.

I wonder how I would have done on those two tests. But it wasn't a big deal to me then.