Is a 1340 on the SAT test bad???
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You should take it again.  There is an excellent study guide called "Cracking the New SAT" and it's by The Princeton Review.  I highly recommend it... it will really help you get past the "evil tricks" on the test to get your best score possible.  For example, did you know that the SAT questions come in Easy, Medium, and Difficult?  And most sections go in order, so you can tell which ones are "supposed" to be harder than other ones?  And if you avoid the Difficult ones and focus on the ones you can actually answer, you will get a much better score?  Uh-huh, believe it!  Get the book, it rocks.  Good luck!
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Since the SAT is based on a bell curve and not on a set standart, the scores fluctuate a lot. The "average" student gets a 500, making 1500 average and anything above, above average.\nHowever, it depends on the college you want to apply to. For example, Harvard probably wouldn't consider anything under 2100, but for the California State University system, a 1600 is probably good enough. However, I don't know the average for people who didn't have English as their first language, though I'm pretty sure that a majority of people who take this test has English as their second language.
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my SAT scores were very high, but i won't put them here.\ni find that what helps even more than studying is reading.  you can internalize grammatical structure a lot better when you read it in a book instead of in a study guide.  no study guide is a silver bullet- but i took the SAT practice tests from the college board book (about 5 of them) and got 99th percentile.  i am very much against SAT prep courses; i think they defeat the purpose of the test and give great advantages to the rich.\ni applaud your cause.
880341
NOPE, no such place. just take it easy, SAT is not all that bad.  besides you can take it more than once if you want, and the higher scores count
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Your TOEFL score is not bad. (basic reuirement of embassy)\nGRE score is poor. It'll affect your admission.
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Ok, the rest are not true, because I asked my college counselor.\nFor the SAT (not ACT or anything else) they take the highest section scores from DIFFERENT sittings.  You are able to mix and match scores from different times to get your HIGHEST POSSIBLE score.  In your case they will consider Math: 750 Reading: 730 and Writing: 700 for a total of 2180! they will recieve your other scores as well.  CONGRATULATIONS btw. Awesome job!
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That's great! It translates to about 1450 or so on the old SATs, if that helps. Most scholarships haven't necessarily adapted to this score though, so if you see a request for the score out of 1600, add the scores from the Verbal and Math sections.
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A 1700 ON THE SAT IS ABOVE AVERAGE.  COMPARE YOUR SCORE TO THE AVERAGE IN UR AREA TO SEE HOW WELL U DID.  TO GET INTO COLLEGE A 1700 IS A GREAT SCORE.
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Regardless of WHAT you get on your SAT, your life is neither over nor extended. It's great to get a high score, but it isn't the end of the world if you don't. Going into any exam, never mind an SAT exam, with an attitude like yours is an invitation to test anxiety. And that almost guarantees that you will screw up on the test. \nFor a SAT to have any value at all, it should reflect your own achievement level and ability level. Do the prep, and then relax. Do the best you can and don't let your creative, analytic and constructive energies be sidetracked by something as useless as worrying about the results before you've written the test. \nGood luck!
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It really does depend, but I found that the CONTENT was not hard.  The challenge in taking SATs is staying calm and collected in a stressful environment.  Rather than study content for the test (which you can't really change) here are some suggestions:\nDon't stress because you will make silly mistakes.  This is where I get almost all of my points off\nMake sure you get enough sleep and eat breakfast (and drink water), to keep your focus.\nDon't over use your calculator, I didn't have to use mine at all.\nIf you are in higher level math, don't over think the questions, they only require you to know up to geometery.\nGOOD LUCK!!
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that's an awful score, considering it's out of 2400\n\non the old scale, thats about a 700 out of 1600.  i'm not even joking\n\ngood luck getting into a decent college with that.
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Truthfully, probably not.  The competition to get into prestigous schools is phenomenal and one of the barometers is the SAT.  It obviously consumes a lot of people.\n\nOut in the real world, your SAT score won't take you too far, but a college degree certainly will.  Do your best on your SAT's when you take them so you'll have the best choice of colleges available.  You don't have to score 1600 to succeed, despite what you might have heard.
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It's okay, not outstanding or anything.. 49% of students had a GPA of 3.75 or higher in high school. But your SAT scores and other factors have something to do with it also. Apply. If you get in, great. If not, at least you know. It's worse to not apply and keep wondering if they would have accepted you. Just do it! And you have time to improve that. :)
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I couldn't afford the courses either (over a grand for some help? No ma'am!) but I did pretty much the same thing you did. I got a couple of help books, went to different websites that gave me free practice tests, got an idea of what the test was all about by starting all this about six months before the actual exam and I ended up scoring at 1400 (this is the old SATS, out of 1600). \n\nIf you can get a group together to do faux practice tests, it'll work out even better. Me and my friend would compare how we got different answers. Even if we both got them right, it was helpful to see how someone else deduced the answer and ended up helping me out a lot on the test because I could try to answer hard questions using a different method. \n\nGood luck on your committee. It definitely sounds like a very good way to prepare our hispanic youth for their futures
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Sorry, but I do not agree with your opinion. Colleges have to have some standard bench mark to judge applicants by and high school results are not standard enough. \n\nIf someone scores 700-800 on an SAT, chances are really good they are not going to get through college. If someone scores 1200+ on an SAT, chances are they are going to do fine in college. In between, there may be room for supposition.
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I concur. Also with the ACT, but I'm starting to believe more in it now since I got a very high score, higher than what my grades would put me as, showing I am unmotivated :D I got suckered into an AP exam and I guess it's okay if you want to pay 80$ and die slowly yet surely when the questions keep coming and coming... I liked the SAT, though, because it was based more on grammar and literature, though I don't know a use for it.
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If this is the new SAT that score is not very good, considering the New SAT is out of a score of 2400. You should really consider taking a Kaplan Prep course. If not, feel free to register for free 45 days of online access to our SAT quizbank site. This site allows you customize your own quizzes for personalized Prep. You really should be shooting for anything above 600 in each section. 600 math, 600 critical reading, and 600 writing.