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Kansas teen gets perfect scores on exams |
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Written by asap
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Monday, 21 August 2006 |
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WICHITA, Kan. — Call it an academic exacta.
Jakub Voboril, 17, a senior at Bishop Carroll High School, found out that he aced both the ACT and SAT exams. He learned last month that he scored a perfect 36 on his ACT — one of only two perfect scores in Kansas.
He aced it after scoring 32 and 34 on his first two tries.
“Part of me said, ’That’s good enough. You can stop there,”’ he said. “But I decided to take it one more time to see what happened.”
He took the SAT the same week and those results -- a perfect 2400 -- came in shortly after he got his ACT scores.
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GOOD GENES
Voboril comes from good genes: his two older sisters were high school valedictorians.
He hasn’t settled on a college or major, but has considered math, philosophy and law, possibly at the University of Notre Dame or Princeton.
NONE OF THE ABOVE
Voboril said he didn’t have an answer for how he scored so well.
“It’s weird, because before I took it, I checked out a couple books from the library. I expected there to be this big secret that all the smart people had that I just had to read.
“But I found out there’s not a secret formula. Obviously, you have to pay attention in classes, take classes that are going to teach you what you need to know — that sort of thing.”
RARE FEAT
No statistics are available on how many students have aced both tests, but it has to be rare.
“Suffice it to say, it’s a very, very small number,” said Brian O’Reilly, a spokesman for the College Board, which administers the SAT. | Only registered users can write comments.
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