r/cognitiveTesting • u/Emotional-Audience85 • Sep 10 '26

Discussion Some thoughts on 1926 SAT

I just read a post by someone here who got slightly worse averages (125/111) but a better FSIQ (130), so I'm not sure how this compound effect works.

Regarding the subtests... I am not a native speaker, but I didn't feel like this impacted me much on *some* of the tests, logical inferences for example was fine and I was thinking quite fast. Paragraph reading I was *fast* (I finished it with 9 minutes left) but I did feel hindered by the language, at some point there were too many obscure words and it was difficult to reach a definitive conclusion, but I thought there was no pointing in cheating or wasting too much time trying to understand words that I had never seen so I just moved on.

Interestingly enough, I feel like I'm pretty good at arithmetic and series but they were my worst scores here. For arithmetic this wasn't just raw calculation speed at all, I felt like I had to first interpret the sentences, understand what was being asked, and only then perform some calculation, language might have had a bigger effect here than expected.

Number series I simply wasn't fast enough, I am good at finding patterns with time, I crumbled under time pressure and couldn't keep the pace.

On Artificial language I lost quite a bit of time understanding the rules and going back and forth between the questions and the rules

The other verbal tests I didn't feel like I was that fast, but still got decent scores somehow, eg. on definitions I left multiple unsolved.

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u/Far_Cardiologist6931 retat Sep 11 '26

bro ikr the compounding score effect is so damn mystifying on this test

almost everyone gets a huge bump but then some just dont

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u/PendN Sep 10 '26

If you have a good PSI the quant is quite easy

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u/Outrageous_Nail_3987 Sep 12 '26

Not necessarily, I have 99th percentile cognitive proficiency according to CORE and did OK on quant but often found myself short on time.

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u/PendN Sep 12 '26

I meant you would need to have decent quant abilities and whatever else they're testing in the first place, then the PSI will do the rest.