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._