user: ### NOW ANSWER:
Question: What is the lowest score for a year before 2008 and had 3rd place?
Columns: ['Year', 'Program Title', 'Placement', 'Score', 'Class']
Types: ['real', 'text', 'text', 'real', 'text']
Sample row: [1995.0, 'A New Beginning', '4th', 82.65, 'PIM']
SQL:

assistant: SELECT MIN("Score") FROM "Table" WHERE "Year" < 2008.0 AND "Placement" = '3rd';