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08-18-2006, 05:42 PM
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Kansas Teen Gets Perfect Scores on Both SAT & ACT!
Kansas teen perfect on SAT, ACT Fri Aug 18, 6:52 AM ET
A teenager has achieved a rare feat: perfect scores on both the American College Testing exam and the SAT.
Jakub Voboril, 17, a senior at Bishop Carroll High School, learned last month that he had scored a 36 on his ACT, which he took in June. His perfect score, one of only two in Kansas on the June test, came after he scored 32 and 34 on his first two tries.
"Part of me said, 'That's good enough. You can stop there,'" he said. "But I decided to take it one more time to see what happened."
He took the SAT the same week. Those results — a perfect 2400 — came in shortly after he got his ACT scores.
Voboril comes from good genes: his two older sisters were high school valedictorians. He hasn't settled on a college or major, but has considered math, philosophy and law, possibly at the University of Notre Dame or Princeton.
He said he didn't have an answer for how he scored so well.
"It's weird, because before I took it, I checked out a couple books from the library. I expected there to be this big secret that all the smart people had that I just had to read.
"But I found out there's not a secret formula. Obviously, you have to pay attention in classes, take classes that are going to teach you what you need to know — that sort of thing."
No statistics are available on how many students have aced both tests, but it's a safe bet Voboril doesn't have a lot of company.
"Suffice it to say, it's a very, very small number," said Brian O'Reilly, a spokesman for the College Board, which administers the SAT.
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08-18-2006, 06:03 PM
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The other obvious thing is that he takes tests well. That's taking nothing away from a great achievement, but it is part of what our son attributes to how he bacame a National Merit Scholar which is heavily based on the SAT as I understand it.
Congratulations to this young man!
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08-20-2006, 04:17 PM
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Originally Posted by DeltAlum
The other obvious thing is that he takes tests well. That's taking nothing away from a great achievement, but it is part of what our son attributes to how he bacame a National Merit Scholar which is heavily based on the SAT as I understand it.
Congratulations to this young man!
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This is pretty true - my only academic talent is taking tests, and I got a LOT of money for it.
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08-20-2006, 05:56 PM
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Oh Hell, admit it He did well because He is from Kansas! 
We are normal! 
KSig RC, hope you do better at Job Sight than taking Tests!
Yep, I am sure You do!
Why, Cause You are GREEK!
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08-20-2006, 06:10 PM
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This appeared on fark.com the other day. The headline was something along the lines of "Teen scores perfect ACT, SAT and will likely never score again"
Tee hee hee....
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08-20-2006, 09:08 PM
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Originally Posted by adpiucf
This appeared on fark.com the other day. The headline was something along the lines of "Teen scores perfect ACT, SAT and will likely never score again"
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That's really sad.
Also pretty funny.
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08-20-2006, 10:24 PM
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Kansas teen perfect on SAT, ACT Fri Aug 18, 6:52 AM ET
He took the SAT the same week. Those results — a perfect 2400 — came in shortly after he got his ACT scores.
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Since when is 2400 a perfect score???? It was 1600 when I was in high school. 
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08-20-2006, 10:48 PM
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Since when is 2400 a perfect score???? It was 1600 when I was in high school. |
It changed in the past year or so
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This is the stupidest news story ever. OMG 2 PEOPLE FROM KANSAS GOT PERFECT SCORES THIS YEAR ALONE. OMG LMAO.
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08-21-2006, 06:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Rudey
This is the stupidest news story ever. OMG 2 PEOPLE FROM KANSAS GOT PERFECT SCORES THIS YEAR ALONE. OMG LMAO.
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I think it's one person from Kansas got a perfect score on both standarized tests.
I think that's impressive.
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08-21-2006, 10:59 PM
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I think it's one person from Kansas got a perfect score on both standarized tests.
I think that's impressive.
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Yeah it's why he made it into a major international paper.
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08-24-2006, 02:43 PM
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Originally Posted by SoCalGirl
Since when is 2400 a perfect score???? It was 1600 when I was in high school. |
There is a writing section now. They basically took the SAT II Writing test and added it to the regular SAT. They also removed the analogy questions from the verbal (now Critical Reading) section and quantitative comparisons from the math section. Each section is still worth 800 points, so the new "perfect score" is 2400.
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