Anonymous
Post 11/05/2025 20:24     Subject: Is it suddenly harder to get high score in SAT or were people always lying?
Anonymous wrote:Our oldest is a junior so only recently started taking SAT/ACT. Before we had or own first hand experience, we used to hear everyone got 1560-1590 in their SAT. After the first couple tries, all the so called smart kids at our school only got 1420-1480. Is the scoring tougher now or were people always exaggerating?


Its not tough for good students who practice, if any gaps in foundation, get 10 sessions with a math tutor to find and fix. An incentive of $1000 for the kid to improve can do miracles.
Anonymous
Post 11/05/2025 20:20     Subject: Is it suddenly harder to get high score in SAT or were people always lying?
Anonymous wrote:this Sept SAT was the easiest per my kid. ended with a 1580 after a spring test of 1500 and last fall a 1480


Agreed. My kid got a 1600 with no missed questions in September. August score was very strong but it jumped almost 100 points.
Anonymous
Post 11/05/2025 20:17     Subject: Is it suddenly harder to get high score in SAT or were people always lying?
Anonymous wrote:I have twins.
One got a single sitting 1580.
One got a 1420, 1400, 1410, 1530, 1410. Taking that 1530 and running with it.
It's a weird test. Sometimes you hit on an easier month.


I have twins also. Both times, they scored within 10 points of each other (and both scored 40 points lower the second time). Are your twins fraternal? Mine are identical.
Anonymous
Post 11/05/2025 18:32     Subject: Is it suddenly harder to get high score in SAT or were people always lying?
Anonymous wrote:I have twins.
One got a single sitting 1580.
One got a 1420, 1400, 1410, 1530, 1410. Taking that 1530 and running with it.
It's a weird test. Sometimes you hit on an easier month.

+1

Hoping November is like September
Anonymous
Post 11/05/2025 18:32     Subject: Is it suddenly harder to get high score in SAT or were people always lying?
I have twins.
One got a single sitting 1580.
One got a 1420, 1400, 1410, 1530, 1410. Taking that 1530 and running with it.
It's a weird test. Sometimes you hit on an easier month.
Anonymous
Post 11/05/2025 18:30     Subject: Is it suddenly harder to get high score in SAT or were people always lying?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Only about 8k kids a year get a 1560+ without superscoring. Pretty shocking.

There are, what, 4 million high school grads per year and just under 2 million SAT test takers?



And yet it feels like 7,999 of their parents post on DCUM.

I mean, test scores are measurably higher in the DMV.


Than where? NJ/CT/NY/MA/CA?
Anonymous
Post 11/05/2025 18:29     Subject: Is it suddenly harder to get high score in SAT or were people always lying?
Anonymous wrote:My kid (now a senior in college) got 1590. One and done. But he took all PSATs that he could.

That was the paper SAT, back around 2020-21. We are discussing the digital test.
Anonymous
Post 11/05/2025 18:23     Subject: Is it suddenly harder to get high score in SAT or were people always lying?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Only about 8k kids a year get a 1560+ without superscoring. Pretty shocking.

There are, what, 4 million high school grads per year and just under 2 million SAT test takers?



And yet it feels like 7,999 of their parents post on DCUM.


LOL. So true.
Anonymous
Post 11/05/2025 18:21     Subject: Is it suddenly harder to get high score in SAT or were people always lying?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Only about 8k kids a year get a 1560+ without superscoring. Pretty shocking.

There are, what, 4 million high school grads per year and just under 2 million SAT test takers?



And yet it feels like 7,999 of their parents post on DCUM.

I mean, test scores are measurably higher in the DMV.
Anonymous
Post 11/05/2025 18:19     Subject: Is it suddenly harder to get high score in SAT or were people always lying?
My kid (now a senior in college) got 1590. One and done. But he took all PSATs that he could.
Anonymous
Post 11/05/2025 18:17     Subject: Is it suddenly harder to get high score in SAT or were people always lying?
Anonymous wrote:Our oldest is a junior so only recently started taking SAT/ACT. Before we had or own first hand experience, we used to hear everyone got 1560-1590 in their SAT. After the first couple tries, all the so called smart kids at our school only got 1420-1480. Is the scoring tougher now or were people always exaggerating?


No. The current lot of students are stupider.
Anonymous
Post 11/05/2025 18:09     Subject: Is it suddenly harder to get high score in SAT or were people always lying?
Anonymous wrote:Only about 8k kids a year get a 1560+ without superscoring. Pretty shocking.

There are, what, 4 million high school grads per year and just under 2 million SAT test takers?



And yet it feels like 7,999 of their parents post on DCUM.
Anonymous
Post 11/05/2025 18:07     Subject: Is it suddenly harder to get high score in SAT or were people always lying?
College board releases percentages who receive certain scores. It’s stayed consistent over time. It’s always been hard to score that high.
Anonymous
Post 11/05/2025 18:04     Subject: Is it suddenly harder to get high score in SAT or were people always lying?
Anonymous wrote:Our oldest is a junior so only recently started taking SAT/ACT. Before we had or own first hand experience, we used to hear everyone got 1560-1590 in their SAT. After the first couple tries, all the so called smart kids at our school only got 1420-1480. Is the scoring tougher now or were people always exaggerating?


they were exaggerating.
Anonymous
Post 11/05/2025 17:58     Subject: Re:Is it suddenly harder to get high score in SAT or were people always lying?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The iPhone/E generation is coming out strong…different from the 05 birth year when kids didn’t grow up with iPhones or iPads in their hands since K. My 05 dud t have a phone until almost 9th grade. He is/was a voracious reader…hence the perfect in vocab SAT; and act English & reading.

The math went down for younger Covid kids too. 05 was already through geometry before everything shutdown.

Def see a difference even in my own house. Younger one had to really prep to pull score up.


Younger siblings tend to have lower IQ than firstborns. It’s probably not about the SAT.


Source?


“Yes, the study found, firstborns do have higher IQs and consistently different personality traits than those born later in the family chronology.”

https://news.illinois.edu/massive-study-birth-order-has-no-meaningful-effect-on-personality-or-iq/

Like the headline says, the difference is not meaningful in terms of life outcomes, but it is measurable. Very much like a small difference in SAT scores.