What's your combined SAT score, and how much do you think you would score if you were...?

Question

if you were an inernational student, who finished high school in a different country and a different language?

Answer 1

I got a 1430; I took it in that weird year after they changed the format but before they reentered them, a year later would have been a 1500.

I taught SAT prep in Korea. My students mostly went to English-language schools (in Korea) but those who didn;t absolutely struggled with English. My friends who had lived in the US for ten years still scored lower (about 250 verbal) than those raised entirely in the US.

However, my students did very well on the math. I imagine I would have gotten a 1180 or so according to the 'then scale' since I might have had a better math education, but would have scored much, much lower on English. Since the 'new' section is also verbal, I'd predict a 1580 on today's exam. That is on par with my students in Korea who learned English as a second language after school.

Answer 2

Well, back in the day, when I took my SAT; my combined score was 960. However I imagine an international student probably wouldn't do that well. Math is a universal language, so I imagine their chances would be fair in the math portion;however, the verbal section could be difficult depending on their proficiency in English.

Of course, on a separate note, the S.A.T and other standardized tests don't prove anything. In fact they are biased against poor and minority students; and they certainly aren't an indication of how one will do in college.

As an example, I did poorly on my S.A.T., but I finished my B.A. degree with a 3.1 G.P.A and in my first year of graduate school with a 3.6 G.P.A., so much for these tests proving anything except how racist they are.

Answer 3

It really depends. When I was in high school, we had a good amount of students who came from other countries pretty late in life. They were actually taught English grammar a lot more than the kids who lived here. So, they actually got really good SAT Verbal scores. However, it really depends on the individual kid and what their schooling was like overseas. I met plenty more kids in college who came from other countries and their English was bad.

Answer 4

Especially since they got rid of the analogies, I think you will have an easier time. There is just reading (fairly simple), writing, and math. Math is the same in any language, the reading selections are not difficult, and the writing prompts are about things that anyone can write about such as "Would you like to be famous, why or why not?".

Answer 5

I scored 1250 which is actually pretty good, the average is 1000, so... Again I took this about 6 years ago, and I got a 1150 on my GRE, which again is good. If you speak english then you will be okay, it isn't that hard and you will be fine, know your math and your english, mostly just the reading comprehension, Good Luck.

Answer 6

Mine were pretty low,,,,I never had tested well, still got to go to the college I wanted to as they put less value on the sat than university would...I think it would have been even lower if I were from a different country...

Answer 7

well, i took it back before they changed the scoring system. i got a 1210. i would have done better if my teachers taught us vocabulary. thats the part that messed me up. :(

Answer 8

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