I scored a 910 on my SAT. I didn't care about education. I don't know what I cared about.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When I was a child I didn't care about getting an education, and I didn't finish high school.
I never cared what kind of grade I got.
I don't know whether I much enjoyed education. I was not academically gifted.
I found that, academically, it really didn't matter whether I had received a certain grade in a class; it didn't matter too much what schools I wanted to attend... What matters is one's drive, one's intelligence.
I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.
You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.
You still remember your SAT scores. And everybody else does too. Everybody's forgotten everything about themselves, everything else about high school. They remember their SAT scores.
The SAT is not perfect. We all know smart, knowledgeable people who do badly on standardized tests. But neither is it useless. SAT scores do measure both specific knowledge and valuable thinking skills.
I was not an outstanding student. I did a reasonable amount of work. I got generally good - pretty good grades, but I was not that passionate about getting straight A's.
I never took my SAT's. I never applied to college. I moved right out here and jumped into the thick of things. Whether that was the smart move or not, I'm sitting here talking to you now, so it paid off.