Hi everybody. I guess many of you would have at some stage done the SATs. I'm registered for the October exam. However, the SATs have already been a very humbling experience for me. I have attempted several papers and each one only highlights my ignorance and lack of intellectual proficiency. My scores lie in the 1700 and 1800 range, and are troubling me a great deal.
I have begun to analyse my mind in greater depth after the SAT experience. The SATs have made me think about my intellectual ability. I have realised that my mind is incapable of consistent in depth analysis. My vocabulary is highly insufficient. I am not able to achieve perfection even after many attempts. My score is not where I want and need it to be. My mind holds a very high place in my life, and I cannot digest the fact that it is insufficient to the task of doing well in an SAT. I have understood the SAT to be a kind of IQ test of which my results show that my IQ is low.
Has any one else been humbled by an SAT ? Are we naturally built to overestimate our ability and then suddenly be shown our rightful place ?
Is there no way to increase intelligence ?

Your scores are high. why are you trying for perfection?

P.S. Sid, are you living in TEXAS now?

I only took it once and I accepted my grade as it was. I really dont understand these people who take it each and every time its offered at their high school and stress themselves out to the point of a mental breakdown. I had one friend who took it about 4 times.

Sidd I admire you for wanting to gain more knowledge and to better your ability to logicaly think.

Your question was how to gain knowledge. I would suggest you read and study many subjects. Also do crossword and other puzzels.

IMO there was a time when one person could know everything. I believe that to be impossible now. I would say some of the best advice I ever got was that knowing where to find the answer to every question was the greatest knowledge.

This leads back to reading, reading reading.

Go read young man go read.