107 of 300,000 scored a perfect 2400 SAT!

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<p>Posted on the NBC-11 (San Jose, CA tv station) website:
<a href="http://www.nbc11.com/education/4372623/detail.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.nbc11.com/education/4372623/detail.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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When the college entrance exam expanded from two sections to three this year, the mark required for perfection rose from 1600 to 2400. This week, as the 300,000 students who took the first sitting of the new test March 12 began receiving scores, the College Board reported that 107 scored a perfect 800 on each of the three sections -- writing, critical reading and math.
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The College Board, which owns the SAT, confirmed the number of perfect scores but has not yet publicly released detailed information about how all the test-takers did. Educators are curious whether student performance on the new test will, as the College Board has pledged, be comparable to the old.
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<p>7 is a lucky number ;)</p>

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<p>anyone know how many people got perfect scores in the last administration of the old sat and how many took the test- that would be helpful</p>

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<p>I don't know the exact number of perfect 1600s from the last test, but the CNN article did mention that:</p>

<p>Of the 1.4 million 2004 high school graduates who took the old SAT, 939 scored a then-perfect 1600, according to Brian O'Reilly, the College Board's executive director of SAT information services.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2005/EDUCATION/04/13/new.sat.ap/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.cnn.com/2005/EDUCATION/04/13/new.sat.ap/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>107 of 300,000 = 0.04% with perfect 2400 (.00035)
939 of 1,400,000 = 0.07% with perfect 1600 (.00067)</p>