U.S. students will take the SAT online

Re:U.S. students will take the SAT online by CrazyStat on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @08:36PM (#39624103)

> i loved when they changed the scores so that your result from 10 years prior suddenly become a lower result so people had to know when you took the test to properly weight the result.

I took the GRE just before they switched from scoring out of 800 on each section to scoring out of 180. After the switch they kindly mailed me “converted” scores on the new 180 scale, which turned my perfect math score—I hadn’t missed a single question—into a 178. I was not amused.

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Re:U.S. students will take the SAT online by xanderlewis on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @08:59PM (#39624261)

So 179 and 180 are just entirely unused in the new system?

You’d think that no matter how weird of a mapping they decide to use, it’d at least preserve the endpoints…

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Re:U.S. students will take the SAT online by renewiltord on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @09:05PM (#39624302)

I believe they percentile-mapped it. Like that guy, I too got a full score on Mathematics (it's very easy) and that was p96 when I took it so I bet I got downscored too. I would almost certainly have been full score if it had had the tougher questions.

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