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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The company that’s managing SAT needs to get it together. They keep trying to tweak it and it’s a sh@t show.

Kids get 1550s on all practice tests, then get 1300 on the real one. Different sections’ difficulty level is inconsistent - easy in September, very hard in October and vice versa.

They are definitely using some AI algorithms for question selection and it’s impossible to prove that this algorithm is flawed.[/quote]
+1, exact same experience here, mid 1500s practice, mid 1300s on the real thing. We'll see how the PSAT shakes out. My kid one year older had a mid 1500s score on the real thing in line with practice tests, but that was followed by a nearly 200 point drop on the psat two months later, well outside any standardized window of expected scoring. Makes me wonder if they are trying to ratchet down scores, but then they come along with an easy test every now and then.

For the 2016 paper test, College Board fired ETS and took writing questions in-house. I don't know what the current status is of their contractual relationship for the digital test. The current scoring and adaptive nature of section 2 are, indeed, a sh@t show. You're exactly right that it is impossible to prove flaws.

It's hard not to go full-tilt conspiracy theory on College Board using a student's bluebook practice testing in some way; while I have no clue what they would do with it, it's a pile of data. No trust.[/quote]

It’s pretty clear that the colleges don't trust the tests either. Most colleges don’t require scores, and the ones that do treat everything over about 1450 as essentially the same.[/quote]

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