Or maybe the SAT is just a shitty test.
The real problem is that not all valuable paths can come to the same bottleneck.
Med student? Well, the SAT might be a good indicator of how successful you'll be at completing a medical program in the US. Same thing for law.
Are you the creative type? Then the SAT probably won't be as indicative of your future success.
That's rather impressive, but I would double-check those numbers.
For example, which IQ test? Was it recently updated? IQ tests are adjusted by as many as 10 points every 10 years [1]. Have you double verified with another test? How did you prepare for each?
If I don’t care and it’s my number why do you or anybody else care? Why should I not use this number to make a valid argument?
Both the "intensely study something rather uninteresting" and "perform under high stress and time demand" are specific kinds of intelligence, and I happen to know many intelligent folks who are expressly bad at it. They don't "test well". Anecdotally, diligent study and fast-testing are anti-correlated in many of these smart folks.
What? Most of the SAT is evaluating high school-level math, writing, and reading skills. It's not like they're asking you to memorize historical dates or names or poems or formulas. Maybe the relatively narrow part of the test on vocabulary falls into this category, but even those words are almost entirely things you'll just pick up if you like reading books. And, now that I'm looking into it, only 10 out of 52 questions in the reading section are even about vocabulary [1]. You can skip 9 of them and still get a 700 on reading/writing [2]. Assuming you get an 800 on math, that's a 98th percentile total score and a 90th percentile on reading/writing alone [3], with almost no vocabulary prep.
I agree about the high pressure aspect, there doesn't seem to be a good way around that.
[1] https://www.kaptest.com/study/sat/whats-tested-on-the-sat-vo...
[2] https://blog.prepscholar.com/how-many-questions-can-you-skip...
[3] https://blog.prepscholar.com/sat-percentiles-and-score-ranki...
Even this is saying too much. I know someone who literally did two or three practice tests and got just shy of a 2400 (he got every q right and lost ten pts for his essay). There's nothing on the SAT that's difficult enough to need prep for a high school junior, with the possible exception of the permutation/combination qs.
Though note that this leaves a massive hole for those who are doing math at middle-school levels, which is true of a shocking fraction of the student population.