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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Great point about many schools going TO. That said, I'm also seeing an incredible number of students with 1400+ SAT scores. I get that I need to not draw from my experience in the 90s when it was rare to hear of someone getting such high or near perfect scores but what is up with so many high scores these days? Has the scoring changed since I remember it? Or has the test itself gotten easier? Or maybe those are the only ones we hear about on here?  :D [/quote]

The SAT was recentered in 1994 or 1995. Then the writing portion was added, then taken away. T[b]he general consensus is that scores are higher now than in the 1990s[/b].[/quote]

There is research to explain what has happened:

Most of the research is behind paywalls. However, here is a North Carolina report (https://studylib.net/doc/10700128/table-of-contents) and an Education Week article (https://www.edweek.org/education/s-a-t-to-realign-...time-in-half-a-century/1994/06) that explain what happened. The 1995 recentering shifted the average score [b]80 points on the verbal section and 50 on the math[/b], i.e. students who took the SAT prior to 1995 would [b]score at least 130 points higher[/b] if they took it after the recentering. [b]The 2005 changes eliminated content in the test that was considered biased and correlated with IQ tests[/b].

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[quote]In 1995, the Educational Testing Service changed the test’s name from the Scholastic Aptitude Test to the Scholastic Assessment Test. ETS aimed to retain the original acronym, while dispelling the numerous objections to the test being called an ‘aptitude’ test. Currently, the test is called the SAT, an anacronym without any specific word association. Also in 1995, the SAT’s score scale was recentered due to increased diversity of the college-bound senior population. The original SAT Verbal and Mathematics scales derived their universal meaning from a 1941 reference group of slightly more than 10,000 test takers, which was much less heterogeneous than the college-bound senior population in 1990. Because the universal meaning of the SAT scores had changed with the shift in the reference population from 1941 to 1990, the scales required recalibration (recentering). Recentering the SAT scales resulted in two major changes: (1) The average scores for both the SAT I Verbal and Mathematics tests were reestablished at about 500 – the midpoint of the 200-800 scale; and (2) Verbal and Mathematics scales were aligned so that Verbal and Mathematics scores could be compared directly. Prior to recentering, Verbal and Mathematics scores could be compared only by looking at percentiles.

In 2005, a new SAT will be administered, which will differ from the current test in three major areas: writing, mathematics, and verbal. A writing test will be included for the first time and will include multiple-choice items, grammar usage questions, and a written essay. The math test will include Algebra II content, and the quantitative comparisons will be eliminated. The Verbal test will be re-named “Critical Reading” and will include the addition of shorter reading passages to the existing long reading passages. Analogies will be eliminated.[/quote]

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A high SAT means nothing. All those kids who used to relay on the SAT scores took those darn test a bunch of times until they achieved the parents desire score.

The only ones hurting from this are Tutors and companies who "help" you study for the SATs.  :twisted:

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