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SAT II's Curve High!

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Afro000Dude

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I got my scores online today for SAT II's from two weeks ago.

800 in Writing, 97th percentile. Is there some kind of secret bonus question that 2 percent of people get?

730 Math Level II, 69th percentile - Bell curve seems shifted way to the top!

730 Chemistry, 83rd percentile - Again, seems that more people score toward the higher end of the scale.

This makes me wonder - do schools look at the score, or the percentile? I would be more impressed by the score than the percentile, so I'm hoping they look at just the number.

Anyone else get their scores today?
 
Originally posted by: Afro000Dude
I got my scores online today for SAT II's from two weeks ago.

800 in Writing, 97th percentile. Is there some kind of secret bonus question that 2 percent of people get?

730 Math Level II, 69th percentile - Bell curve seems shifted way to the top!

730 Chemistry, 83rd percentile - Again, seems that more people score toward the higher end of the scale.

This makes me wonder - do schools look at the score, or the percentile? I would be more impressed by the score than the percentile, so I'm hoping they look at just the number.

Anyone else get their scores today?
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For Writing, it could be that 2 percent of the people get 800.
 
percentile > direct score

they wanna basically know how dumb/smart you are compared to other people. you getting 790 would not mean jack sh1t if your percentile was 10 and the other 90 percent got 800
 
Originally posted by: Afro000Dude
730 Math Level II, 69th percentile - Bell curve seems shifted way to the top!

730 Chemistry, 83rd percentile - Again, seems that more people score toward the higher end of the scale.
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Might want to read up a bit on normalized distributions, in addition to positive and negative skews, so as not to sound completely inane when referring to all distributions as "bell curves".

May aid in raising that 69th percentile as well.
 
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