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Re:A framework for grading your performance on programming i... by Jensson on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @02:30PM (#28921613)
> he noted that one-third of respondents described a jump from 750 to 770 on the math portion of the SAT as having a significant effect on a student’s chances of admissions

But did the SAT prep really help people go from 750 to 770? I'd guess that most of that 20 point jump would be for people who start out at 500 or so, and going from 500 to 520 isn't terribly significant. Fixing the last points is much much harder than the middle, so I really doubt that people at that level would see the same absolute gain as people in the middle.

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Re:A framework for grading your performance on programming i... by whimsicalism on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @03:39PM (#28922645)
Agreed. Indeed, I would expect the "average" to mostly consist of large boosts for very low initial scorers rather than improvements among high-scorers.
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