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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Would # of 99th percentile students change a bit for HS class of 2026? Most of the students will only take digital SATs and would the change from paper SATs affect the number? [/quote]

I think, yes. More kids will "just miss" getting into the harder second test set, and so they will be limited in their top score. This disadvantages kids who make mistakes on early test questions or have jitters at the start of the test, but who were perfectly capable of doing really well on the hard questions in the hard part of the exam -- just they will never see that part due to early question jitters and stupid mistakes.

I am so glad my oldest had the paper test. In practice exams, he showed a pattern of missing very few, but the ones he missed were always in the first 15 minutes of the test. By the end of test, he was missing none. We actually created a strategy around going back to the beginning of the section and redoing the questions from scratch if there was time. Very high score, but on the new digital version, he'd probably be capped due those early question mistakes.[/quote]

Wow, that is a bad way to test kids.[/quote]

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