Reply to Are SAT scores just higher now than the mid/late 90s?

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "Are SAT scores just higher now than the mid/late 90s?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've wondered this as well. I took the SAT in 1992 and scored 750 math, 650 verbal, for a 1400.

I was surprised 30 years later when my kid took it and knew so many who scored 1400 or higher.

Here is what I can find:
1992 score report: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED351352.pdf
Average: verbal 423 math 476 = 899

In 1992, verbal 700+ was top 1% and 600+ was top 4%.

In 1992, math 700+ was top 3% and 600+ was top 8%.

1060 was the 75th percentile.

In 2022 (see https://reports.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/2022-total-group-sat-suite-of-assessments-annual-report.pdf)

Average: verbal 529 math 521 = 1050

In 2022, verbal 700+ was top 8% and 600+ was top 20%.

In 2022, math 700+ was top 10% and 600+ was top 16%.

1200 was the 74th percentile (they don't get 75th, but that's close).

I remember (but can't find) that my 1992 1400 put me in the 99th percentile. That same score in 2022 is the 92nd percentile.

So, yes, the scores are very different today.[/quote]

You can add 70-80 to your verbal and perhaps 10-20 to your math.  So you'd have a 1490/1500 now.  They really changed the verbal in the 1995 normalization. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics