8TH-GRADER FINDS SAT FAIRLY `EASY' ON THE BRAIN.Byline: Alicia Doyle Daily News Staff Writer Thirteen-year-old Andrew Blackmore would have scored higher than 1170 on the Scholastic Assessment Test this year - if only he had turned over the last page of the verbal section and seen more questions on the back. ``I guess I just didn't see it or something,'' said Andrew, who scored 630 in math and 540 in verbal when he took the test in January. ``I didn't notice it until way at the end, when it was too late to finish.'' Andrew's score was higher than the average college-bound 12th-grader's, and he thought the test was relatively ``easy.'' ``Some parts were harder than others,'' said the Mesa Verde Middle School eighth-grader, who didn't study for the lengthy test. ``But it wasn't that bad.'' Andrew took the SAT for the first time when he was 12, after his mother, Maureen, signed him up for a mathematics and verbal talent search conducted by The Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University, mainly at Baltimore, Md. Johns Hopkins in 1867 had a group of his associates incorporated as the trustees of a university and a hospital, endowing each with $3.5 million. Daniel C. Center for Talented Youth “CTY” redirects here. For other uses, see CTY (disambiguation). The Center for Talented Youth (CTY) is a gifted education program for school-age children, founded in 1979 by Dr. Julian Stanley at Johns Hopkins University. . Students who enter the search take the SAT, with only the top scorers given state, regional or national recognition awards. Andrew scored 1030 his first time around, earning himself a regional award in 1995. He received state recognition from CTY CTY - /sit'ee/ or /C-T-Y/ [MIT] The terminal physically associated with a computer's system console. The term is a contraction of "Console tty", that is, "Console TeleTYpe". with his scores this year, and a one-course scholarship at California Lutheran University Mission statement The University's mission statement is as follows: "California Lutheran University is a diverse, scholarly community dedicated to excellence in the liberal arts and professional studies. . The scholarship provides tuition for a single four-credit course, which Andrew must take before he graduates from high school. His certificates began piling up in 1992, when Andrew prevailed in the Ventura County Spelling Bee spelling bee n. A contest in which competitors are eliminated as they fail to spell a given word correctly. Also called spelldown. Noun 1. at age 9. He has won several spelling bees since, collecting other awards year after year for perfect attendance, making the honor roll honor roll n. A list of names of people worthy of honor, especially: a. A list of students who have earned high grades during a specified period. b. A list of people who have served in the armed forces. and winning literary, science and math contests. A poem he wrote, ``Fungus in the Grass,'' is planned to be published by the National Library of Poetry. While SAT scores and good grades are important to many college-bound students, Andrew doesn't take his academic accomplishments too seriously. ``He's a normal kid,'' said his mother, who believes her son's intelligence is genetic. ``He's just really smart.'' He said his 3.5 GPA GPA abbr. grade point average Noun 1. GPA - a measure of a student's academic achievement at a college or university; calculated by dividing the total number of grade points received by the total number attempted came easy this school year, although he did have to study once in a while. Right now, he's happiest when he's snowboarding, playing roller hockey or hanging out with friends. Andrew said he never thinks about college, or what he wants to be when he grows up. ``I don't care about that at all right now,'' he said. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: (color in SIMI SIMI Sea Ice Mechanics Initiative SIMI Search for Intelligent Monkeys on the Internet SIMI Students Islamic Movement in India SIMI Society of Irish Motor Industry SIMI Smallholder Irrigation Markets Initiative edition only) Andrew Blackmore won st ate recognition for his test scores this year, along with a scholarship for a college class. Andy Holzman/Daily News |
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