I have gotten 800s on math before, though not consistently. I haven't gotten anywhere close to a 780 on reading. That being said, I have the resources (probably) to perform well. Also my parents said that if I got a 1600 I would get to go to Singapore. Which sounds really hype and I would love that.
Looking at the scoring, I think a 780 in reading is quite difficult but maybe manageable if I work hard enough. Maybe.
The last test I took similar to this was the Upper ISEE in October 2021. I fell asleep halfway through and got 98s for math and 96s for reading (there are four sections graded indivudally but somehow I got the same scores for both tests in each category).
My thought is that when the test comes around (this October), hopefully I will have prepared enough + get lucky enough to not mess up on math at all and will have read through all the books I have thoroughly enough to not mess up on reading that much (I think it's much harder to silly on the reading section).
I genuinely don't expect to get a 1600 but it is definitely my goal.
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8/8: Took my 2nd practice test. I have two prep books and they are both very good but also contradict each other. I am handpicking a few tips from each to see what works best for me. It's midnight and I'm really tired but somehow I did decent. I got a 1550 (750 reading, 800 math). I think the reading passages were much harder for this test- I went 46/52- but I came up with a strategy for writing/grammar (I made it up but it sounds like the type of strategy that would be introduced later on in my books, so really I just took the generic concepts it was trying to preach and applied it elsewhere) and went 42/44. And for math I went 20/20 and 38/38.
Just took a practice test with extremely minimal preparation. I got a 1490 (700 reading, 790 math bc I read a question wrong and I resent myself for that)
