Top 31 Quotes About Sat Scores

#1. SAT tests are designed by huge panels of experts in education and psychology who work for years to design tests in which not one single question measures any bit of knowledge that anyone might actually need in the real world. We should applaud kids for getting lower scores.

Dave Barry

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#2. What we want is not always what we need.

Gena Showalter

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#3. I hate it when people talk about Buffy as being campy ... I hate camp, I don't enjoy dumb TV. I believe Aaron Spelling has single-handedly lowered SAT scores.

Joss Whedon

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#4. SAT scores play an important role in admissions, even though they are poor predictors of college performance.87 This benefits affluent students, who are far more likely to enroll in private test preparation and take the test multiple times to boost scores.

Elizabeth A. Armstrong

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#5. I went into broadcast journalism. I loved every class I took, I just got anxious because I came to the realization that you're groomed in high school to get good SAT scores to get into a good college or else you're done for.

Chace Crawford

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#6. One way to break up any kind of tension is good deep breathing.

Byron Nelson

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#7. Am dining at Goldini's Restaurant, Gloucester Road, Kensington. Please come at once and join me there. Bring with you a jemmy, a dark lantern, a chisel, and a revolver. S. H. It was a nice equipment for a respectable citizen to carry through the dim, fog-draped streets.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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#8. The SAT is not perfect. We all know smart, knowledgeable people who do badly on standardized tests. But neither is it useless. SAT scores do measure both specific knowledge and valuable thinking skills.

Virginia Postrel

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#9. What an indictment that is, of the Ivy League and its peers: that colleges four levels down on the academic totem pole, enrolling students whose SAT scores are hundreds of points lower than theirs, deliver a better education, in the highest sense of the word, than do those institutions.

William Deresiewicz

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#10. When people say that students at elite schools have a sense of entitlement, that is what they are referring to: the belief that you deserve more than other people because your SAT scores are higher. Of course, your SAT scores are higher because you have already gotten more than other people.

William Deresiewicz

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#11. I do not know what you were like as a wood-nymph, madam, but you are a magnificent tree.

Neil Gaiman

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#12. I keep vampire hours, going to bed at 2 A.M. and waking up at about 10:30-11 A.M.

Douglas Coupland

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#13. They're coming out of high school exhausted. The pressure in high school is killing these kids. By the time they get to college, they have been fighting for three or four years to get the perfect SAT scores and get into A.P. classes.

Debora Spar

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#14. In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.

Bill Gates

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#15. The single largest variable that predicts SAT scores is family income. If you want higher SAT scores, you need to get your kids born into wealthier families. You know, it's great to tell kids to pull themselves up by their own boot straps, but you better put boots on them first.

Paul Houston

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#16. Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

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#17. Simon didn't think Meg really wanted to know how to eviscerate a rabbit. He could be wrong about that, but he just couldn't picture Meg pouncing on a bunny and ripping it open with her teeth.
Maybe if he tried harder to picture it?

Anne Bishop

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#18. like most men skilled at their work they were scornful of any least suggestion of knowing anything not learned at first hand.

Cormac McCarthy

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#19. but she was damn sure he should be in love with her - not some spindly-limbed, slant-eyed, pointy-eared elf bitch.

Anonymous

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#20. If speculative ideas can not be tested, they're not science; they don't even rise to the level of being wrong.

Wolfgang Pauli

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#21. Was it possible to hammer 3.6 million American teachers into becoming master educators if their SAT scores were below average?

Amanda Ripley

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#22. Frequently, to be an American then was to be periodically unmoored, transient, so bereft of options that moving on was the only choice.

Rinker Buck

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#23. For a long time they sat in silence, observing the huddles of juvenile reeds peeking through the water's surface, and watching the scores of bank-rooted daisies nodding their dainty heads in time with the gentle breeze.

Jack Croxall

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#24. That day, two dangerous men sat, had a beer, and discussed the latest football scores.

Nalini Singh

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#25. You still remember your SAT scores. And everybody else does too. Everybody's forgotten everything about themselves, everything else about high school. They remember their SAT scores.

John Katzman

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#26. We cannot blame the schools alone for the dismal decline in SAT verbal scores. When our kids come home from school do they pick up a book or do they sit glued to the tube, watching music videos? Parents, don't make the mistake of thinking your kid only learns between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.

George W. Bush

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#27. Noir is where the clarity of moral divisions break down, the black and whites turn into grays.

Elliott Colla

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#28. When I was six, Hitler, who had become rather a nuisance, launched a sustained attempt to destroy Liverpool, and though we lived several miles from the vulnerable docks target, our Childwall suburb became too close for comfort and safety.

Brian Epstein

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#29. A girl just asked for SAT scores good enough to get her into Yale. I think she was nine.

Richelle Mead

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#30. I'd heard a lot of Motown and Stax when I was a kid, but the more well-known end of it. On Jam tours, we had a DJ called Ady Croasdell who ran a '60s club. He turned me on to underground stuff and what people call northern soul. It just blew my mind.

Paul Weller

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#31. You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy.

Neil Simon

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