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Title: Teen Gets Perfect Score on SAT, ACT
Post by: shadowstar on August 20, 2006, 06:46:55 PM: http://articles.news.aol.com/news/_a/teen-gets-perfect-score-on-sat-act/20060818065409990007 (http://articles.news.aol.com/news/_a/teen-gets-perfect-score-on-sat-act/20060818065409990007)

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WICHITA, Kan. Aug. 18 - 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.
Title: Teen Gets Perfect Score on SAT, ACT
Post by: light_hikari on August 20, 2006, 06:59:33 PM: Bastard <_
Title: Teen Gets Perfect Score on SAT, ACT
Post by: Flow- on August 20, 2006, 07:16:32 PM: WTH... My ACT score wasn't even near a 30. Seeing this just makes me feel stupid. :(
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Post by: Odango on August 20, 2006, 09:13:54 PM: That's just crazy! Wow. Well he has his choice of any college now I'm sure XD
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Post by: Rakko on August 20, 2006, 09:18:52 PM: He probably took one of those photographic memory courses and "cheated" unlike the rest of us using less than 10% of our brains' full potential.
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Post by: Dropping Pants on August 20, 2006, 09:47:47 PM: That's me!
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Post by: Amplifier on August 20, 2006, 11:03:27 PM: It's a good thing standardized testing isn't ridiculous. If I remember correctly, all of the SAT I took was multiple choice. Doesn't exactly show your actual ability with material. :sweatdrop: Most of my teachers in high school didn't care for standardized testing, and neither do I. :lol:
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Post by: jmantaiwan on August 23, 2006, 07:17:02 PM: How do they know he didn't cheat? Seams a bit too perfect to me!
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Post by: kuno_thunder on August 23, 2006, 08:28:49 PM: You know what the funny thing is? This guy's gonna get a job and his boss is probably gonna be a B or B+ student.
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Post by: meowchi on August 23, 2006, 08:54:03 PM: ^ Yeah pretty much anyone he works for; he'll have on his resume " I scored higher then you bastards on the SAT and all I got was this stupid job "
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Post by: JTRIX on August 23, 2006, 08:55:38 PM: Screw those people who got extreme high marks in tests/exams!
They all end up being big bastards!!!
:P
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Post by: meowchi on August 23, 2006, 09:00:07 PM: Hey that Nobel Prize winner is pretty smart and he was literally unemployed for like 6 months
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Post by: Asmodai on August 24, 2006, 12:30:03 AM: I think the results of a couple tests are overrated. They don't really prove anything. Hopefully he doesn't let it go to his head.
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Post by: kuno_thunder on August 24, 2006, 02:44:59 AM: If it does, college/university life will probably bring him back to reality.
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Post by: gocha on August 24, 2006, 07:06:07 PM: I'll bribe that dude to be my helper on the SAT , so that i can get perfect too
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Post by: murderslastcrow on August 24, 2006, 08:01:16 PM: If you're cute enough, and you're a girl, you can get a perfect score. You just have to seriously jeopardize your morality.

Or you can do it the honorable way- study your brains out, bake them at 350 degrees until crisp, but some frosting and candles on top, blow them out, and then shovel it back in.

^_^ That's how EYE study. And I havv purfict spelingangrama'.
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Post by: thatguy on August 24, 2006, 08:25:59 PM: SAT and ACT mean much less than they're played up to be.
just wait until you take MCATs or LSATs, or any other post-grad certification exam.

and as a note to all you people getting ready to take SATs for college, i got a 1340 (of 1600, the 'old' test) and got into an ivy league, while there were plenty of people who did better than i who were waitlisted.

numbers only go so far. you'll be surprised at how interested colleges are about that personality behind those test scores.
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Post by: smoothee on August 25, 2006, 11:04:10 AM: i dont think those tests will ammount to much in the long run.. but im not from america so iw ouldnt know.. :P
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Post by: klise on August 25, 2006, 12:50:09 PM: kill him > extract his brain > implant it in my head....

so that i can say "i scored full mark on SAT too... with this brain~" x_X
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Post by: Asmodai on August 25, 2006, 12:58:38 PM: Quote from: thatguy
SAT and ACT mean much less than they're played up to be.
just wait until you take MCATs or LSATs, or any other post-grad certification exam.

The LSAT wasn't that bad. :D