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To   : MIKE POWELL
From : Rob Mccart
Date : Tue Jan 11 2022 00:48:00

RM>> My friends all said I was
  >> crazy for not studying like crazy for the SAT's but, in the end, I didn't k
  >> anyone personally who scored as high as I had (a 94 percentile)..
  >> Sorry but there's no direct way to convert from our system to the USA syste

MP>It made sense to me.  We have the SAT and the ACT.  Which one you take
  >depends on which universities you are considering.  Most kids I knew took
  >both, but I only took the ACT.  Those returned numeric scores, I think the
  >highest you could get on the SAT was 1600 and the ACT was 33 or 34.  We also
  >had aptitude testing throughout primary and secondary school that returned
  >percentile numbers.  I always did pretty well on those.

Yes, I'm used to seeing that '1600' score on American TV and such. Ours tends
to vary a bit year to year because a 94 percentile here means that you got a
better score than 93% of the people who took the same test. That might not be
so impressive on a particularly stupid year..    B)

MP>When I was between jobs, in addition to taking the max number of public
  >service exams allowed

I once applied to work for Canada Post thinking a well paid job with good
benefits and not so difficult to do sounded pretty good.
I got a letter back from them later saying I had scored too high on the exams
and if they gave me a job I likely wouldn't stay there for long.

Similarly, I applied to the Police at one point and was told I was 'too small'
to qualify for the job. Ignoring the fact that I was bigger and heavier than
they required for women recruits, I was able to lift more than my own weight
over my head and almost double my weight off the ground.. oh, and I'm 6 feet
tall and at the time weighed about 145 lbs.

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