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Didn't make it. Should've focused more on the darn essay...

me too.

last time i took them was in 8th grade and i got a 1250 or something like that

I love how everyone that didn't get the highest score mentioned (aka. less than 1490) blames it on hangover/little sleep/baseball game/et cetera.

I took both the SAT and the ACT while hungover and i'm damn proud of it.

I got 1530 on the SAT first time - 800 Verbal, 730 Math - and I'm a Junior.     I may retake it to try to max Math in a few months, just glad I got another year to get it higher.

JG of Borg

Because I'm an American - long story, but suffice to say I want to go to an American college also.

I shouldn't really disclose that, OPSEC and everything, but an American school - we all have to take PSAT sophomore year (which I did well in) then I took the PSAT Junior year (which I don't think I did well on) and SAT this month, and got the 1530 then - I am considering retaking it to try to max Math, I'll see.

I've not taken the SAT, and probably won't.  A friend of mine at school took it and got a 1600, though.  Also got a 32 frist time on ACT last year (junior year).  He's

you know what really sucks? My 640 on math II is only the 40th percentile. Oh well - what it came down to was whether the school would like a higher score on an easier test or a lower score on a harder test. What do you peple think?

It's also kind of stupid that the canadian school system won't prepare you for the SATs. I asked my teacher about some questions I couldn't get, and he simpy said "Oh, yeah. Those. We don't teach that anymore."

secondly : actually, the older you get the less predictive test scores are of sucess Ben.

What do you mean by this?

Take a Psych class, you talk extensively about this stuff.  Achievement tests become less than 50% predictive of success by the time you take your graduate degree entrance tests.   
IQ is also rife with inaccuracies.  Culture has a lot to do with it.  Studies show that perfectly intelligent people from different cultures through out the world do poorly on the standard western IQ test.  Also IQ test scores seem to lower as you get older (which makes sense but still is peculiar)
Then there is the theories of multiple intelligences, basically explaining how some people are awesome at sports, music or some other category but seem dumb when compared to the average student in another subject like math or english.

Sorry for the very late reply, but I wanted to defend (?) my comment.  First off, I just finished my first Psych class (gonna be a psych major ), and we also just finished the intelligence and cognition unit, which dealt heavily with IQ and testing. What we were taught was that and IQ test given at age 10 or so will give an IQ similar that stands up over time, if the test is legitimate and well designed. Years long studies have shown that IQ doesn't really change over time except in about a 10 point range to either side of the mean. IQ tests are also valid among other cultures, when they have been adjusted to reflect cultural values. Scores tend to even out when the test is in a first language, or deals with concepts that are multicultural, rather than language or location specific.

Most tests test two types of knowledge: crystallized and fluid. Crystallized knowledge is that which most often causes cultural variations in scores. It represents all the information you have gathered about the world throughout your life, and thus grows with age. Fluid knowledge is basically mental agility, and tends to peak around 16 to 18, and then only declines a small amount. Modern IQ tests look for a combination of the two scores, and can be adjusted so that they have a negligible cultural bias by using abstract rather than concrete examples. At least, that is what we were taught, and I ahve no reason to question it.

Multiple intelligence is a whole 'nother subject. IQ tests really do accurately predict performance in college and life, but only on a grand scale. Examples like sports superstars with millions of dollars who aren't as bright as the english teacher who dies with a mediocre life total of cash don't really fit in the curve. There are other exceptions, but not enough to really affect the average.

Ideally it works, but not in practice