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Sunday, December 19, 2010

Burroughs student gets perfect scores on SAT and ACT

Trish Bhat, a junior at John Burroughs, gets perfect scores on both tests in her first try.

Scoring a 2400 on the SAT or a 36 on the ACT is the dream of any high school student looking to go to a great college. Trisha Bhat, a junior at John Burroughs High School, managed to score perfect on both, and it only took her one try. Baht, however, could have never predicted the feat. "I was shocked," she said. "I didn't take a course, or use a tutor, but just worked on practice tests. I may have been perfect on a few over the many I took, but I would have never thought I'd be perfect on both." The odds of acing one of these tests is highly unlikely, and astronomical to be perfect on both. The CollegeBoard website states that in 2010, only 382 students achieved a score of 2400 on the SAT, an amazing feat considering over 2 millions …

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