Central Unified student celebrates perfect scores on the SAT

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- During inferior and elder year, it's crunch clip for students to walk their classes, use to colleges and ace their exams.

Senior Braj Sekhon is simply a pupil astatine Central Online Home School.

He chose to be people online to assistance his dada with his machine recycling business, but helium prioritized taking the SATs.

"It was precise important for maine to instrumentality it aggregate times due to the fact that I wanted to conscionable get the highest people that I could for colleges," Braj said.

He did good connected his PSAT and took the SATs for the archetypal clip successful March of this year. He did good and scored a 1520.

"Knowing that my PSAT people was high, I expected it to beryllium high, but I hoped that it could beryllium higher," Braj said.

So helium took clip to survey and utilized signifier quizzes and guides online to prepare.

Then successful August, helium took the trial again.

He scored different 1520, but this clip had a cleanable people connected the mathematics portion.

"That was beauteous astonishing that I got an 800 connected that, but it was benignant of comic that my speechmaking people went down," Braj said.

A period later, helium tried 1 much time.

He aced the speechmaking and penning and missed a cleanable mathematics people by 10 points.

"It was precise surprising. I was gladsome that each the hard enactment I enactment into getting the speechmaking people had paid off," Braj said.

Colleges look astatine the highest scores students have, meaning Braj volition beryllium capable to use with a cleanable 1600 connected his SATs.

According to CollegeBoard.org, past twelvemonth a full of 2,000,000 seniors took the test.

While the enactment doesn't specify however galore students received a cleanable score, it says of the 2,000,000, lone 7% scored betwixt 1400 and 1600.

Braj is hoping the scores assistance onshore him astatine 1 of the apical colleges, specified arsenic MIT, Harvard oregon Stanford.

"So conscionable 1 of those apical schools would beryllium a it would beryllium a imagination travel true," Braj said.

He wants to treble large successful mathematics and machine subject earlier going connected to get his doctorate grade and becoming a probe professor.

He says helium hopes he's an illustration for others.

"I truly anticipation that it inspires different students to propulsion themselves to spell beyond," Braj said.

Braj and his household are besides hoping the SAT scores volition assistance him onshore a fewer scholarships to wage for his education.

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