Posted on 09/15/2010 2:53:28 PM PDT by JoeProBono
JENKS, Okla. (CNN/KOTV) - It was supposed to be just a practice. But an Oklahoma high school freshman managed to ace one the nation's toughest exams on her first try.
Jolee Potts, only 15 years old, earned a perfect score on the ACT.
"I just took it as practice my freshman year and I figured I'd take it again junior or senior year, so... I don't have to now," said Potts.
Her freshman schedule is packed with four AP classes, Latin and orchestra where she plays the viola. She also makes award-winning documentaries.
Potts says going into her first college entrance exam, her one weakness was science.
"Cause I hadn't taken chemistry or physics yet and there were a bunch of questions on that, so I guess I'm a good guesser," she explained.
Her instincts for science could come in handy. Potts wants to go into medicine or aerospace engineering. Her ACT score of 36 couldn't get any better, but she says her celebration wasn't quite perfect.
"My mom, she was really excited. I just wish my dad could have been here to see it. He passed away in March," said Potts.
She also plans to take the SAT, but says she'll wait until next year.
Fantastic!
With brains like that you can bet she’s not a dim.
Educated guesses or just lucky?
sic hoc legere scis nimium eruditiones habes
My daughter!!!! Wait, I don’t have a daughter. Never mind :-)
Seriously, she and her parents must be very, very proud. As well they should be. Hat’s off to the family.
‘if you can read this, you’re overeducated.’
Good for her!
Unless it’s changed, the Science portion of the ACT requires understanding and interpretation of the science info, graphs, and data they have you read, not actual science knowledge.
mea maxima culpa...
Thanks to Sister Lorraine
Any links to her documentaries?
I wonder if the science portions rely on blind acceptance of the conclusion that man is killing the planet or if this is more basic chemistry, physics, etc.
At least when I took it, it was basic science; no political garbage.
tu non sibilas Dixiam!
For her sake I hope she doesn’t go to an Ivy League University because they will strive to get her score down to 550 so as to blend in with her fellow students!
“If you know basic science and can think logically you can work your way through most of the questions.”
Yet back in the early eighties, when I was starting in engineering, I found a lot of new grads with high GPA’s stumbling on the latest new real world engineering situation they ran in to. The excuse was “I did not have a course on that in college”. Then they missed the whole point! They were supposed to learn not only the basic foundations, but also how to use those foundations to analyze a new problem that does not fit perfectly. Sadly this kind of thinking permeates to the HR world as well. According to some HR types, I am not qualified to work on programmable logic controllers since I never had a formal course on that. Yet I have been doing PLC programming for over 20 years in real world applications, including those applications falling under FDA and NRC jurisdiction. The culture has gotten to the point where everything is supposed to be spoon fed with cookie cutter solutions, and no original thinking is allowed. I place the blame for this squarely on the educrats.
It was more basic science back in my day but we had nine planets back then. Who knows now days. :)
What the ??? I’m not whistling Dixie?
You’ve got me...
I only had two 36’s out of the four sections as a senior :-(
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