A little over a month ago, I took the ICFES, Colombia's version of the SAT. This morning the results were posted online. While the scoring is complex with many subscores and sub-subscores and socres that are essentially dependant on how the rest of the testing population fared, I feel pleased with my results.
There are 1000 "puestos" or spots and everyone is ranked into one of those. I ended in Puesto 683 which is about 31.7%. Not too bad when the majority of my competition has native fluency in Spanish and is not ten years out of graduating from high school.
Of the individual subject scores, I got a 91.7 in English language - its a joke - and my next highest was a 58.9 in Biology, thankfully. Now, in order to apply to most Colombian universities, I am told, any score over 50 is considered acceptable. My Chemistry and Math scores were also in this acceptable range. I knew nothing of Philosophy and it showed with a score of 12.7, however, the one I'm most proud of is the "lenguaje" section, which is dealing with the Spanish language, but in a Language Arts context; I got a 45.3. Not to bad for someone who didn't know a lick of Spanish less that four years ago!
