SAT (Senseless, Asinine Test)

I took the SAT this morning at Cleveland. It's the absolute last time that the test is offerred before it changes significantly. My only real gripe was that it was painfully long. Things went pretty well: I was positive about all of my answers on the math and most on the reading. Knowing how things go, I'll probably have made a couple of stupid mistakes. Given my experience from taking practice SATs, I probably missed two on the math from total stupidity, dropping my score down to 750 (generally, missing two on the math does this, although if the math is curved at all, which it occasionally is, then this would probably be a 760 or 770). On the verbal, I probably got somewhere between 700 and 720, allowing for one or two wrong answers in each of the analogy sections. I must say, however, that I felt particularly good about the sentence completion and analogies. I'm pretty sure that I missed one or two, but I knew virtually all of the words. In the practice tests I had done slightly worse. That combines to somewhere between 1450 and 1470--not great, but adequate for a first run.

Afterward, Jon, his friend Laura Tolle, and I went to Thai Spoon for lunch. It's quite good, although there are some places that are slightly better.