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Re:SAT (and ACT) scores are highly predictive of academic ac... by gnicholas on Monday February 05, 2024 @02:01PM (#39265407)
I wouldn't say you "added 350 SAT points" so much as your score went up by 350 points between 7th and 11th grade. I would imagine that for practically every student, SAT scores would go up by hundreds of points during this stage of academic development.
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Re:SAT (and ACT) scores are highly predictive of academic ac... by smeej on Monday February 05, 2024 @05:44PM (#39268256)
> but it seems pretty likely to me that it wasn't the direct work ("persistence") that made the difference as much as the generic four more years of schooling and general maturity.
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