Does your relationship status affect your SAT score?

[rammyam278]

I am collecting data for stats class. It would really help me out if you posted your SAT score, your relationship status around the time of your test, your grade in school, and your gender. Please ignore the obvious data pool issues. I just need data. Thanks!

[EDDIE51]

What's a SAT score ?
I left school in 1968.

[ChuckFickens]

Unless you went to school in America then a SAT score wouldn't mean a lot to you whenever you left school.

Rammy, this is a predominately UK based site, as such you won't find many people on here that have even done a SAT test as we don't have that in the UK.

[888sally888]

Glad you asked this eddie - I don't know what this is either!!

[factor-fiction]

SAT scores are used in the UK- I don't know when they came in but they have certainly been a round for at least 20 years. The tests are taken at the end of Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2 (age 10/11) and until recently at Key Stage 3 (Year 9- old third form)

[factor-fiction]

http://en.wikipedia.o...Curriculum_assessment

Judging by the time of the post though I think rammyam is probably talking about US tests

[Mosaic]

Standard attainment tests (SATs) have been used in the US education system for decades. Think Bart Simpson constantly getting an F. These tests have to be passed for the pupil to progress to the next year group - they are kept back otherwise irrespective of their chronological age.
Thatcher's spawn -oh sorry, the Conservative government - introduced SATs into primary and secondary schools in England and Wales in the 1980s at the at the ends of (effectively) infant, junior and lower school secondary ie ages 7, 11 and 14.
It was predicted at the time, and indeed has come to pass, that this would be impossible to administer fairly and with meaning and so the number was reduced to one SAT, at age 11.
Back in my day we called this 'the 11-plus'. What goes round.....

In the UK SATs have resulted in spurious and easily-challenged statistics, immense stress on teachers, immense anxiety among pupils and parents, a publishing industry aimed at profiting by selling cramming tests and a whle layer of Whitehall bureaucracy whose wages we have paid to keep this misery in place.

But I expect there will be some supporters of SATs out there, and the world through the Mosaic window can seem a little jaundiced at times.

[factor-fiction]

I can understand the logic of SATs, Mosaic, as there needs to be a standardised way of assessing progress, but I agree the system was far from perfect.
As a teacher in secondary school I just could not believe the SAT scores claimed for some students arriving in Year 7. We'd have people with a SAT score of but a reading age of 7, and of course when we tested them we found they were really only a 3a/4c, so it was impossible for us to achieve the required levels of progress. Either the papers had been marked incorrectly or, more likely, they had been helped in some way or certainly 'taught to the test' for some time. Primary schools were under so much pressure to deliver good SAT results at age 11 that almost all their efforts for many weeks were devoted to practising for the tests.

[lcg]

i've no idea what a sat score is, but i'm married with 4 a levels above c grade and a first class honours degree. i am also doing an msc, where i currently have a post graduate diploma with distinction. does that help?