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Originally Posted by AGDee
Some kids just aren't good test takers. I have always been pretty lucky that I'm a fast test taker and do well on tests. I had friends who knew their stuff but didn't do as well as I did on standardized tests. I think it was usually test anxiety that hung them up.
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So true. I went to college with 3 of my best friends, 2 of them being national merit scholars (for having a high score on the SAT-not sure if merit scholars still exist these days?), one of those having a full scholarship to A&M. I won't mention what I got on the SAT here as it was embarrassingly low
, but I can say I was in the top 5% of my highschool and had only made 1 B over those 4 years. Anyways, by our sophomore year, both merit scholars were on academic probation, my friends full ride was gone. Meanwhile, I continued to do very well and was accepted to vet school a year early.
I did not do well on standardized testing but this did not impact my performance in college. It did hold me back from receiving several scholarships and from being in the honors program.
My friends could take a 4 hour test and do well, but when it came to studying, attending class and even classroom testing-they did not do well. I am still a bit bitter
over the SAT (also substitute the GRE for the SAT I had to take for vet school-again I did awful but my grades saved me)
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