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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The figures for the number of 1570+ scorers are low.

When the College Board last released data on the number of scorers at a given score in 2015, the SAT was scored out of 2400.  Approximately 17,500 scored in the top 1% out of 1.7 million test takers.  There are now around 2.4 million test takers.

A 1570 concordance on the 2400 scale is 2360-2370.

There were only 2,500 scorers who achieved a score of 2360 or higher in 2015.

Even with superscoring, there are probably fewer than 7,500 1570+ SAT scorers each year.  [/quote]

I just find this implausible because my kid has a single-sitting 1570 and really doesn’t seem like she’s all that unusual. [/quote]

The College Board published the numbers.   There were 9,203 test takers who scored 2300 or higher in 2015.

https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/digitalServices/pdf/sat/sat-percentile-ranks-composite-crit-reading-math-writing-2015.pdf

You have to use the wayback machine as the College Board now hides the 2015 score behind a firewall.

The concordance table published by the College Board indicates a 2300 old SAT is equivalent to a 1560 new (1600) SAT. https://research.collegeboard.org/reports/sat-suite/concordance/previous

https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/digitalServices/pdf/sat/sat-percentile-ranks-composite-crit-reading-math-writing-2015.pdf

You have to use the waybackmachine to access it.[/quote]

What is a waybackmachine? Never heard of this.[/quote]

It's a way to view a webpage or a version thereof that is no longer on a particular website but was at one point in time if the crawler got to the page.  The internet is forever kind of thing. The College Board used to publish their 2015 data showing the exact number of discrete scorers at each 10 point level of the SAT.  It now only publishes numbers in large bands, eg, 700-800. [/quote]

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