my favorite this week.
(seems like everyone I know can recall all your previous comics and say ‘my favorite comic so far’ after seeing this… but I can’t.)
Y’know, I surprisingly do remember my score. 1890 was my highest individual, but the college I attended took the best of any number of multiple attempts, and since I took the SAT twice, according to my college, my SAT score was 2090.
…I suspect I mostly remember that because it gave me access to a scholarship, and I had to write it down a million times or so.
Are they recalling their scores from the 2400 point model? Because I took mine when 1600 was the highest you could get and I flipped off nerdbug and girlbug the second I saw those scores thinking they meant “out of 1600”. I just checked and apparently it changed in 2005, which is really relieving since I took mine in 2004.
1080, by the way. Out of 1600. So, adjusting for scale, Nerdbug is in the 61st percentile, Girlbug is in the 65th, and I was in… the dead middle of the 67th! Woo! Take that, fictional characters!
If you are basing your calculations on the 2400 point test, you are confusing percent and percentile. Percent is, well, percent. Percentile is a measure of what percent of test takers your score was better than. A 50% score may have a higher or lower percentile score. Since we are talking students with college aspirations, I would guess 50% is lower than 50th percentile. Percentiles are computed based on a distribution determined by the results for that year. That is probably not a normal distribution; I suspect it skews to the high end. I took it in the 1600 days, and IIRC, when you received your test scores, in the package was a table converting scores to percentile.
Maybe you’ve not forgotten – maybe you’ve repressed it, what with all the bloody carnage and stuff going on. So accept you’ve survived and stop scanning for repressed memories. I have it on good authority that’s really stupid 🙂
I believe it’s Scholastic Aptitude Test. It’s a USA thing that occurs in late high school. Apparently it tells them what to do with their lives or further education.
1280 – out of 1600, second highest in my High School. My mom matched Nerdbug with 1480, perfect 800 math and 680 on verbal… also out of 1600 of course, so I’d bet their scores are from the 1600 version.
Meh – happened over 20 years ago for me (actually I took the ACT instead of the SAT), and it has zero impact on your life once you’re past college age – I don’t remember mine either, and I’m not surprised. I just remember I was above state average – which now that I think about it when considering the state I live in probably isn’t that impressive.
2270. I had the good fortune to ace the writing portion by getting a grader with a sense of humor… Otherwise, I’m sure that telling them about the time I went back in time to the American Revolution to run over redcoats in a tank and nuke Britain wouldn’t have been terribly well received.
All I’ll say is that you’d have expected me to have failed fewer classes with SATs like that. Schools like MIT and Harvard recruited me based on the SAT score, then saw my actual grades, and really, really un-recruited me very fast.
Ha! I forget my test result (of any test I ever had in school) as soon as I put it in my bag. Same with my school report.
„What grade did you get?“
„I.“
„I?“
„Yes, I. I have no goddamn idea.“
(I never really did that joke, since we use numbers for grades in Germany. BUT I WOULD HAVE!)
my favorite this week.
(seems like everyone I know can recall all your previous comics and say ‘my favorite comic so far’ after seeing this… but I can’t.)
Y’know, I surprisingly do remember my score. 1890 was my highest individual, but the college I attended took the best of any number of multiple attempts, and since I took the SAT twice, according to my college, my SAT score was 2090.
…I suspect I mostly remember that because it gave me access to a scholarship, and I had to write it down a million times or so.
Are they recalling their scores from the 2400 point model? Because I took mine when 1600 was the highest you could get and I flipped off nerdbug and girlbug the second I saw those scores thinking they meant “out of 1600”. I just checked and apparently it changed in 2005, which is really relieving since I took mine in 2004.
1080, by the way. Out of 1600. So, adjusting for scale, Nerdbug is in the 61st percentile, Girlbug is in the 65th, and I was in… the dead middle of the 67th! Woo! Take that, fictional characters!
If you are basing your calculations on the 2400 point test, you are confusing percent and percentile. Percent is, well, percent. Percentile is a measure of what percent of test takers your score was better than. A 50% score may have a higher or lower percentile score. Since we are talking students with college aspirations, I would guess 50% is lower than 50th percentile. Percentiles are computed based on a distribution determined by the results for that year. That is probably not a normal distribution; I suspect it skews to the high end. I took it in the 1600 days, and IIRC, when you received your test scores, in the package was a table converting scores to percentile.
Congratulations on figuring out why my Math section was abysmally low.
Maybe you’ve not forgotten – maybe you’ve repressed it, what with all the bloody carnage and stuff going on. So accept you’ve survived and stop scanning for repressed memories. I have it on good authority that’s really stupid 🙂
I hear the first contestant to use a double negative in the essay is given paper cuts with scantron forms!
1060 was mine. I only remember because I was extremely disappointed.
Ok, what’s S.A.T.?
I believe it’s Scholastic Aptitude Test. It’s a USA thing that occurs in late high school. Apparently it tells them what to do with their lives or further education.
Paired with our high school grades it was qualifier for different university. The better the score the better university you could attend.
1280 – out of 1600, second highest in my High School. My mom matched Nerdbug with 1480, perfect 800 math and 680 on verbal… also out of 1600 of course, so I’d bet their scores are from the 1600 version.
The SATs would have been less painful if they had been a writing instrument-themed battle to the death.
Meh – happened over 20 years ago for me (actually I took the ACT instead of the SAT), and it has zero impact on your life once you’re past college age – I don’t remember mine either, and I’m not surprised. I just remember I was above state average – which now that I think about it when considering the state I live in probably isn’t that impressive.
I’m taking the GRE on Monday which is the Grad School equivalent of the SAT. Needless to say I am not looking forward to it.
2270. I had the good fortune to ace the writing portion by getting a grader with a sense of humor… Otherwise, I’m sure that telling them about the time I went back in time to the American Revolution to run over redcoats in a tank and nuke Britain wouldn’t have been terribly well received.
I don’t remember either, but I do like the long version of saying that better.
I was back in the 1600 days, and I remember mine.
All I’ll say is that you’d have expected me to have failed fewer classes with SATs like that. Schools like MIT and Harvard recruited me based on the SAT score, then saw my actual grades, and really, really un-recruited me very fast.
My brother got super high SAT scores. He also flunked out of college. For him, getting up and going to classes was too much of a hassle.
No clue. I could probably find out but it would require making an effort and take me away from reading webcomics.
Ha! I forget my test result (of any test I ever had in school) as soon as I put it in my bag. Same with my school report.
„What grade did you get?“
„I.“
„I?“
„Yes, I. I have no goddamn idea.“
(I never really did that joke, since we use numbers for grades in Germany. BUT I WOULD HAVE!)
1450. Irrationally angry and cartoon characters for beating me. But at least I have my 35 ACT.
1390/1600
I tried taking it again and it went down, within the range of variation for my original score.
panel 3 is a masterpiece
I took the SAT so many times that all my scores blended together in my head by now.
Also, I just don’t care to remember them.