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Kansas Teen Perfect on SAT, ACT

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Kansas Teen Perfect on SAT, ACT
By Associated Press
5 hours ago

WICHITA, Kan. - A teenager has achieved a rare feat: perfect scores on both the American College Testing exam and the SAT.

Jakub Voboril, 17, a senior at Bishop Carroll High School, learned last month that he had scored a 36 on his ACT, which he took in June. His perfect score, one of only two in Kansas on the June test, came after he scored 32 and 34 on his first two tries.

"Part of me said, 'That's good enough. You can stop there,'" he said. "But I decided to take it one more time to see what happened."

He took the SAT the same week. Those results _ a perfect 2400 _ came in shortly after he got his ACT scores.

Voboril comes from good genes: his two older sisters were high school valedictorians. He hasn't settled on a college or major, but has considered math, philosophy and law, possibly at the University of Notre Dame or Princeton.

He said he didn't have an answer for how he scored so well.

"It's weird, because before I took it, I checked out a couple books from the library. I expected there to be this big secret that all the smart people had that I just had to read.

"But I found out there's not a secret formula. Obviously, you have to pay attention in classes, take classes that are going to teach you what you need to know _ that sort of thing."

No statistics are available on how many students have aced both tests, but it's a safe bet Voboril doesn't have a lot of company.

"Suffice it to say, it's a very, very small number," said Brian O'Reilly, a spokesman for the College Board, which administers the SAT.

 
I would bet it's a small number. At least when I graduated everyone took the SAT and no one took the ACT.
 
Originally posted by: sixone
He's attending a Catholic school, according to the local paper.

Interesting that AP doesn't point that out. Wouldn't want to embarrass public education. :roll:
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And I take it that you want to suppress any perfect information from people from public schools then?

The OP didn't include the link, probably didn't copy the entire article, and the part he did post here included "Bishop Carroll High School" and "University of Notre Dame". Both clearly Catholic schools. I feel you are making a big deal out of nothing.
 
A friend of mine just graduated high school as valedictorian, she only had a 980 on the SAT, this was before the essay they have now. She was in the low 20s on ACT as well. I guess there is a big difference from retaining information and just what you can cram in short term memory. Her ego is still inflated beyond the point of bursting however.
 
Originally posted by: Glavinsolo
A friend of mine just graduated high school as valedictorian, she only had a 980 on the SAT, this was before the essay they have now. She was in the low 20s on ACT as well. I guess there is a big difference from retaining information and just what you can cram in short term memory. Her ego is still inflated beyond the point of bursting however.
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That SAT score is embarrasing... She would have been turned away from every state school I know...
 
Originally posted by: sixone
He's attending a Catholic school, according to the local paper.

Interesting that AP doesn't point that out. Wouldn't want to embarrass public education. :roll:
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The fact that the Schools name is Bishop Carroll High School IS kind of a dead give away don't you think??
 
Originally posted by: dullard
Originally posted by: sixone
He's attending a Catholic school, according to the local paper.

Interesting that AP doesn't point that out. Wouldn't want to embarrass public education. :roll:
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And I take it that you want to suppress any perfect information from people from public schools then?

The OP didn't include the link, probably didn't copy the entire article, and the part he did post here included "Bishop Carroll High School" and "University of Notre Dame". Both clearly Catholic schools. I feel you are making a big deal out of nothing.
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Yeah, a perfectly logical assumption. :cookie:
 
Originally posted by: sixone
Yeah, a perfectly logical assumption. :cookie:
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From the biased response you posted, I can only assume you want us to take all of your thoughts to be biased. The article clearly listed two Catholic schools, you are just going way overboard. So I returned the favor and went way overboard.

Another perfect student.
 
Originally posted by: dullard
Originally posted by: sixone
Yeah, a perfectly logical assumption. :cookie:
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From the biased response you posted, I can only assume you want us to take all of your thoughts to be biased. The article clearly listed two Catholic schools, you are just going way overboard. So I returned the favor and went way overboard.

Another perfect student.
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So keep going overboard. It's impressive. Really.
 
Originally posted by: sixone
He's attending a Catholic school, according to the local paper.

Interesting that AP doesn't point that out. Wouldn't want to embarrass public education. :roll:
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"Jakub Voboril, 17, a senior at Bishop Carroll High School" <-- from OP


I would have never known without your article 😛
 
Originally posted by: acemcmac
Originally posted by: Glavinsolo
A friend of mine just graduated high school as valedictorian, she only had a 980 on the SAT, this was before the essay they have now. She was in the low 20s on ACT as well. I guess there is a big difference from retaining information and just what you can cram in short term memory. Her ego is still inflated beyond the point of bursting however.
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That SAT score is embarrasing... She would have been turned away from every state school I know...
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She is on her 2nd year at the University. Universities have a scale they use.

GPA SAT/ACT
4.0 900
3.9 950
3.8 1000

Something like that you get the idea
 
Originally posted by: sixone
He's attending a Catholic school, according to the local paper.

Interesting that AP doesn't point that out. Wouldn't want to embarrass public education. :roll:
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More likely I'd say the kid is naturally gifted and a hard worker who studied hard for the SATs.
I took the SATs without ever studying and got a 1430 (out of 1600) my first try, had I studied hard I wouldn't say it would be out of the question for me to get a 1600. For that matter, the ACT is a similar test, if you can ace one, it's likely not to hard to ace the other. (valevictorian of my high school had a 1600 along with a perfect GPA though)
 
"But I found out there's not a secret formula. Obviously, you have to pay attention in classes, take classes that are going to teach you what you need to know _ that sort of thing."
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This is definately not true for the SAT... it's more true for the ACT since they test your knowledge rather than if you can answer trick questions.

Props to that kid though... but it's not uncommon to see a perfect (or near-perfect) SAT nowadays, in fact I know more than a couple kids (goin to Brown, MIT) who've accomplished that.
 
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