What do these new SAT scores mean?

[glen]

For example:
Reading 570
Math 620
Writing 600

What sort of percentage range are they in?

 

[Yossarian]

they mean that you aren't very smart.

 

[FlyLice]

Originally posted by: Yossarian
they mean that you aren't very smart.

 

[glen]

what are the percentages?

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: glen
what are the percentages?

You mean the percentiles?

 

[FoBoT]

he means like how many points is that out of?

in the olden days, the SAT was 1600 points, 800 math and 800 verbal

he wants to know if it is 800 reading, 800 math, 800 writing or what . how many is possible for each area on this new fangled system

 

[mwmorph]

percentile would be in the 60-70% rannge.
reading might be closer to the 50% range.

 

[audi]

you should be kicked off the forums for being such a stupidass

 

[Passions]

It means say hello to UC Tijuana.

 

[damonpip]

Each is out of 800, I think the percentiles are on the score report that gets mailed home.

 

[anno]

you mean the percentiles? they should be reported in parenthesis, beside your scores.

apologies.. it appears they no longer list the percentiles beside the scores on the website. on saturday, they did. I expect it will be spelled out when you get your printed score report.

based on previous tests, I'd guess that the 570 is in the 6x percentile range, the 620 probably somewhere between 70 and 80 and the 600 somewhere in the middle.. but that's purely a guess.. no experience with this new test to say for sure.

anno

 

[glen]

I'm 36 years old.
I got a 720 math long long ago...
I am just asking about the new score, all of you are dumbasses for assuming they were my personal scores.

 

[MaxFusion16]

Originally posted by: glen
For example:
Reading 570
Math 620
Writing 600

What sort of percentage range are they in?

i'd say mid 70s percentile

work harder, math is an easy 800, reading and writing should both be above 650

 

[anno]

Originally posted by: glen
I'm 36 years old.
I got a 720 math long long ago...
I am just asking about the new score, all of you are dumbasses for assuming they were my personal scores.

heh.
I'm 49 years old.
I got a 670 on the math, a longer long time ago.
I was just trying to be helpful, and despite the namecalling and my inferior score, don't feel like a dumbass at all.

anno

 

[glen]

Originally posted by: anno

Originally posted by: glen
I'm 36 years old.
I got a 720 math long long ago...
I am just asking about the new score, all of you are dumbasses for assuming they were my personal scores.

heh.
I'm 49 years old.
I got a 670 on the math, a longer long time ago.
I was just trying to be helpful, and despite the namecalling and my inferior score, don't feel like a dumbass at all.

anno

I am not calling you a dumbass. Scroll up and look at the first couple of posters.

 

[tami]

usually, it says on your score report what percentile you're in.

don't ask people at ATOT, since we don't know.

 

[anno]

Originally posted by: glen
I am not calling you a dumbass. Scroll up and look at the first couple of posters.

ah.. so.. while I'm not a dumbass.. perhaps I am a little over-sensative.

anno

 

[FoBoT]

do snails even have an @ss?

 

[glen]

I am also over sensitive.
Communicating over the net is tedious.
I am trying to find out information, and you just had know that some folks are going to post that i am an idiot for the scores...sheeesh.
i would have doen the same thing a few years ago.
And, if I saw someone my age jogging, I would heckle them..hey old man - don't have aheart attack!

 

[cquark]

While ETS won't release data on a single testing date, various test prep centers claim that the first implementation of the new SAT was graded extremely generously.

From http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/04/12/sat

Those in the test-prep industry know that two groups of students call their SAT tutors on the day results are released: those who are thrilled with their scores and those who are devastated.

Paul Kanarek, who runs the Princeton Review?s California operations, said that those calls are usually split 50-50. But on Monday, the day scores were released for the SAT?s first use of its revised test, he said 90 percent of the calls were from happy test-takers ? very happy test takers.

?People are getting absurdly good test results, much better than we predicted, especially on the writing test,? Kanarek said. Typically, students increase by about 30 points between their last practice test and the actual test, but most students seem to be doing at least 100 points better, and many students are reporting 400 point increases from early practice tests to their actual scores, he said.

?We had long suspected that the first example of the new test would be reasonably easy and that scoring was going to be generous, and it looks like that?s what happened,? he added.
...

 

[Anubis]

its like 75th percentile, well above average

and i love how everyone on AT calles someone that didnt get a 1400 or better on the SAT (old) a moron

you do realize that national average is still like 1030

 

[Theiananator]

It means you lose.

 

[eLiu]

Originally posted by: cquark
While ETS won't release data on a single testing date, various test prep centers claim that the first implementation of the new SAT was graded extremely generously.

From http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/04/12/sat

Those in the test-prep industry know that two groups of students call their SAT tutors on the day results are released: those who are thrilled with their scores and those who are devastated.

Paul Kanarek, who runs the Princeton Review?s California operations, said that those calls are usually split 50-50. But on Monday, the day scores were released for the SAT?s first use of its revised test, he said 90 percent of the calls were from happy test-takers ? very happy test takers.

?People are getting absurdly good test results, much better than we predicted, especially on the writing test,? Kanarek said. Typically, students increase by about 30 points between their last practice test and the actual test, but most students seem to be doing at least 100 points better, and many students are reporting 400 point increases from early practice tests to their actual scores, he said.

?We had long suspected that the first example of the new test would be reasonably easy and that scoring was going to be generous, and it looks like that?s what happened,? he added.
...

What they need to do is crack down and make this test actually worth a sh!t.

 

[Gunslinger08]

The new SAT is a joke, as are the reasons for it's development.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: MaxFusion16

work harder, math is an easy 800

Yeah, sure. :roll: