Anonymous
Post 03/24/2023 02:16     Subject: Do you need to answer every question correctly to get a 1600 on SAT?
Anonymous wrote:The scoring was also recalibrated a few decades ago…basically, the “center” of the distribution was shifted to the right about 100 points.

So a score of 1500 now is closer to a score of 1400 in 1990.


But a 1500 then does not translate to 1600 now, more like 1550.
Anonymous
Post 03/23/2023 20:43     Subject: Re:Do you need to answer every question correctly to get a 1600 on SAT?
Wondering if the 2024 adaptive test will result in more varied test scores.
Anonymous
Post 03/23/2023 20:41     Subject: Do you need to answer every question correctly to get a 1600 on SAT?
Anonymous wrote:It's not easier. Students are working harder.


The language section, at least, is definitely easier. They have eliminated sections such as vocabulary and grammar.
Anonymous
Post 03/23/2023 20:30     Subject: Do you need to answer every question correctly to get a 1600 on SAT?
Anonymous wrote:It's not easier. Students are working harder.


Absolutely not true - are the "I went to a W school 30 years ago" poster who likes to delude themselves about the current state of education?

All standardized tests have lower level vocabulary, fewer answer choices, etc. now. More difficult sections like Analogies have been eliminated. I teach AP classes and during the last 13 years, the tests have definitely become easier and more subjective.
Anonymous
Post 03/23/2023 20:22     Subject: Do you need to answer every question correctly to get a 1600 on SAT?
I got a 1450 back in the mid 90s and that was considered good enough to apply everywhere and be competitive back in the day as long as the rest of the application was good.
Anonymous
Post 03/23/2023 20:15     Subject: Do you need to answer every question correctly to get a 1600 on SAT?
The tests aren’t normed locally are they? How does that work? Is it curved?

-obvs someone who did NOT get a 1600 on the SAT! Haha
Anonymous
Post 03/23/2023 19:08     Subject: Do you need to answer every question correctly to get a 1600 on SAT?
Anonymous wrote:DD got 1 question wrong and got a 1590. Her classmate got 1 question wrong the next testing session and it was a 1580. I guess it depends on other kids scores.


My sister also got 1 math question wrong and got a 1590. This was in the 90s though, so awhile ago. She knew exactly which question she’d gotten wrong. She had a perfect score on the verbal side.
Anonymous
Post 03/23/2023 19:05     Subject: Do you need to answer every question correctly to get a 1600 on SAT?
Anonymous wrote:It's not easier. Students are working harder.


Except it IS in fact easier. Materially so.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/05/11/why-your-new-sat-score-is-not-as-strong-as-you-think-it-is/

Anonymous
Post 03/23/2023 19:01     Subject: Do you need to answer every question correctly to get a 1600 on SAT?
The scoring was also recalibrated a few decades ago…basically, the “center” of the distribution was shifted to the right about 100 points.

So a score of 1500 now is closer to a score of 1400 in 1990.
Anonymous
Post 03/23/2023 18:56     Subject: Do you need to answer every question correctly to get a 1600 on SAT?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It's not easier. Students are working harder.


Maybe, but if you can miss 2-4 questions and get a 1600, that was not possible 'back in the day.'
Two wrong on each section might have scored as low as 1500.



No more penalty for guessing either.


Came here to say this.

Students are no longer penalized for wrong answers like my generation was, which is a huge difference.
The vocabulary and analogy sections are gone, which used to be score killers as well.
Anonymous
Post 03/23/2023 18:53     Subject: Do you need to answer every question correctly to get a 1600 on SAT?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It's not easier. Students are working harder.


Maybe, but if you can miss 2-4 questions and get a 1600, that was not possible 'back in the day.'
Two wrong on each section might have scored as low as 1500.



Nonsense.

Which part? I remember seeing two missed questions as a 750, and also 6 missed questions as a 710.
Anonymous
Post 03/23/2023 18:52     Subject: Do you need to answer every question correctly to get a 1600 on SAT?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It's not easier. Students are working harder.


+100 these kids would have run circles around us


I think there is debate as to whether the SAT is easier since they removed vocabulary questions and analogy questions. Back in the day, you had to know what a word meant from memory vs. deducing its meaning by including the word in a sentence.

Also, there was a movement to transition it from being more of an "IQ" type test to testing kids on what they should learn at school.

Not sure if the Math section has been changed all the much over the years.


Yes it has changed. There is much more content from algebra 2 and graphing and statistics. I remember it being more accessible to middle schoolers before. More questions like if x is even and y is odd which of the following can be true.
Anonymous
Post 03/23/2023 16:09     Subject: Do you need to answer every question correctly to get a 1600 on SAT?
My child missed 3 verbal questions and no math and scored a 780/800.
Anonymous
Post 03/23/2023 15:42     Subject: Do you need to answer every question correctly to get a 1600 on SAT?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It's not easier. Students are working harder.


Maybe, but if you can miss 2-4 questions and get a 1600, that was not possible 'back in the day.'
Two wrong on each section might have scored as low as 1500.



No more penalty for guessing either.