schleppenheimer wrote:
Part of the reason why I'm asking about this is because:
1) First son got a 1410 on the old SAT (five years ago)
2) NT daughter who's a junior gets great grades, but is concerned that she won't do as well as her Aspie older brother, who didn't get great grades
3) youngest aspie son doesn't seem to test well. I'm really wondering how he will manage the SAT/ACT tests at all, especially when they change the requirements to include a lot more writing and explanation of how people arrive at certain math results. Kind of curious if any of you struggled with tests early in your school career, only to do fine on the SAT/ACT tests
Kris
Actually, I am the reverse. When I was in elementary school I did excellent on my Iowa Test of Basic Skills (top 10-15 percentile), fairly well on my ACT (24 overall, but 27 in both sciences and social science), and very poorly on my GRE 2x. The problem for me has always been that the higher tests are a lot more abstract and a lot less practical/concrete.
For me, it's easy to research and write very detailed and monotonous papers all day because I get to choose the topics that interest me and they are fairly concrete in nature. However, if I have to explain advanced math problems or even the symbolism in a novel...well I'm lost.