On Wed, 18 May 1994, Greg Berge wrote:
 
> The lowest score you can get on the SAT is... 0!
>
> You get 200 points for signing your name.  You
> gain x points for answering questions correctly,
> but lose y points for answering incorrectly -- this
> is why it's not in your interest to guess if you
> can't eliminate at least one selection.
>
> If you get every question wrong, you get a 0.
 
That is one of the intriguing things about the SAT. Sign your name,
answer no questions, you get a 200. Try to answer questions and get them
wrong, you could do worse.
 
> All of this was a response to a statement that
> so-and-so was as dumb as Dan Quayle on a bad
> day.  Did anybody else find it weird that the
> immediate rebuttal was to quote an SAT score?
 
I thought it was in response to Tony's "rumored" score for Powers.
 
_Dave J._