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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've been curious how well students today would do with the SAT from the 1980's. One of the reason these tests don't mean much anymore is that they've also gotten much easier.[/quote]

That's not accurate. [/quote]
"Beginning with the test administered in April 1995, the SAT score scale was recentered to return the average math and verbal scores close to 500. Although only 25 students had received perfect scores of 1600 in all of 1994, 137 students taking the April test scored 1600...the number of pupils who scored above 600 on the verbal portion of the test had fallen from a peak of 112,530 in 1972 to 73,080 in 1993, a 36% backslide, despite the fact that the total number of test-takers had risen by over 500,000."
Nowadays, thousands of students get a perfect score each year and over 1.2 million students get a score below 600
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No evidence here that the test has steadily gotten much easier--it does show that the ceiling of the 1995 test was likely lower than the 1994 immediately after the re-centering.  Nothing else is evidence that supports anything about the difficulty of the test and/or changes in it over time.[/quote]

And how more students take it now, probably including those who wouldn’t have taken it before due to low grades (but will now apply to college because we push students there instead of vocational programs).[/quote]

True.[/quote]

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