scores above about 730 really require near perfection.
Seriously? Wow, that's what I got and I've never considered myself very good at math. Although an acquaintance of mine who's an aerospace engineer once mentioned her score and it was about 100 points lower which made me go
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DS (5th grader) never took the tests, but his friends on AoPS told him that SAT/ACT math was extremely easy compared to the middle school math competitions such as CML, AMC8, AMC10, and mathcounts. While DS took those contests in the last two years, so he is not afraid of "hard" tests. Last week, he challenge himself with the ACT online test without any prep and no knowledge of geometry and trig (he is in an Algebra 1 class).
He scored Math+Reading+English+Science = 35+29+24+24. Composite score was 28. His math score was converted to SAT 780 with only two careless mistakes.
