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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]lol..no the test was not ‘made easier’

yes.. my kid had a 1500/1520 - so basically 1 question wrong and just hit the 224.

crazy![/quote]

This year's test takers are not much smarter than last year's test takers.  The test scores jumped because the test was easier.[/quote]

Yes it was much harder back in the 1970s but pretty much the same test for the past 20 years.[/quote]

Nah, it's continued to slip - lots of evidence about how student abilities seem to be sliding, in conjunction with SAT scores rising or remaining the same. I thought this recent paper was amusing:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4915452

"GPT takes the SAT: Tracing changes in Test Difficulty and Students' Math Performance

Abstract

We address two related issues: the comparability of SAT scores across different years and the declining math performance of college students. To overcome challenges stemming from the evolving nature of SAT, we develop a novel transformed control method using OpenAI’s GPT-4 as a counterfactual benchmark across the years 2012–2023. Results indicate SAT math difficulty decreased by an average of 0.21σ over this period relative to the base year. After controlling for changes in test difficulty, student SAT scores declined by an average of 4 points per year."

Unfortunately, I no longer have access to the private dataset for an entry exam that gatekept an intro-level course at a moderately selective T100 university. This showed that there existed a substantial group of kids who scored high on the math SAT, also scored high on multiple choice simple problems in algebra/geometry, but scored poorly on the free response questions. Would love to know how the pandemic has affected this group.

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