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Sebastian Jensen's avatar

SAT/ACT scores don't correlate that highly with GPA -- only 0.5, so super high SAT/high GPA students are even more rare than the data suggests.

https://www.sebjenseb.net/p/how-should-students-at-elite-universities

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Chasing Oliver's avatar

This assumes that there is a major distinction between those who make one or two mistakes on the SAT and those who make none. With that many questions to be completed in that amount of time, it's entirely possible to make errors of observation unrelated to knowledge of how to answer a question correctly or ability to execute the steps.

This does support making the test harder and/or longer, so it's possible to distinguish better at the top of the distribution.

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Arjun Panickssery's avatar

I don't think I draw contrasts between 1560+ (one or two mistakes) and 1600. I do make a contrast between those scores and a 1500 (about ten mistakes), which is in a different score range.

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Sheikh Abdur Raheem Ali's avatar

I think that people who prepare a lot for the ACT are more likely to aim for a perfect score than people who take the SAT. On the ACT subreddit there was a popular meme about “thicc 36” with no memetic equivalent for the SAT. I got a perfect score on the ACT on my first attempt and I would not have been as motivated if not for the “thicc 36” joke.

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Arjun Panickssery's avatar

Did you get a 36.0 or 35.5/35.75

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Sheikh Abdur Raheem Ali's avatar

35.75. I made one mistake in the math section.

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The 13th Grade's avatar

Interesting

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