294 Members of Class of 2008 Aced the SAT

Test Preparation
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<p>The College Board has posted its report </p>

<p><a href="http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/sat_percentile_ranks_2008_composite_cr_m_w.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/sat_percentile_ranks_2008_composite_cr_m_w.pdf&lt;/a> </p>

<p>of how many members of class of 2008 achieved each possible (single-sitting) composite score on the SAT Reasoning Test. Just 294 students achieved a peak standard score of 2400 on the test. </p>

<p>Thus far, I haven't found a report of the number of students who achieved each composite score level on a "superscored" basis (that is, by counting the best score on each section from separate sittings for the test), but I've never believed that that number is more than about 150 percent of the number of students with single-sitting scores of a given level. College Board reports the effects of repeating the test </p>

<p><a href="http://www.collegeboard.com/prod_downloads/highered/ra/sat/AverageScores.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.collegeboard.com/prod_downloads/highered/ra/sat/AverageScores.pdf&lt;/a> </p>

<p>and most students have an increase on each section as they take the test more than once, so "superscoring" isn't a big advantage for a student's composite score.</p>

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<p>Interesting. </p>

<p>Am I reading it right? Boys outnumber girls on every score above 1950?</p>

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<p>Yes, boys outnumber girls at the top end of the scoring ranges.</p>

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<p>What I found odd is that the number scoring 2390 is less than those scoring 2400--I believe it was more, or about the same, in prior years.</p>

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<p>Whoa! tokenadult has ESP. How'd you know what I was gonna ask before I posted it? ;)</p>

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<p>Oops, the posting order bug is back. Yes, I had read DougBetsy's post before replying. </p>

<p>To Hunt: some score combinations are rare at the top end in part because sometimes particular versions of one test section or another jump from a standard score of 800 to a standard score of 780 for the next lower score. Discrete scoring means there isn't a smoothness in the curve of scores at the extreme ends.</p>

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<p>But if you look at the same report, you'll find that there were more girls than boys who scored above 700 (and above 600) on both the critical reading and writing tests. See page 6 of <a href="http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/Total_Group_Report.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/Total_Group_Report.pdf&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p>

<p>The fact that there are more boys than girls overall at the higher combined score levels can be accounted for by the fact that the margin of high-scoring boys over girls in math is greater than that of girls over boys in reading plus writing.</p>

<p>Donna</p>

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<p>Anyone know how many students received a 2400 and a 36 on the ACT?</p>

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<p>Well, thats comforting. Only 5,143 other people got the same score as me.</p>

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<p>I always wanted to know how my one sitting score compared with the nation. Good to know.</p>

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<p>TokenAdult - this number for class of 2008 doesn't seem much bigger than the number in class of 2007. If number of total students taking the SAT is taken into account, are we seeing any greater rate of peak scores?</p>

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<p>wow....at the 97th percentile like more than 30,000 students did better than me. that is really scary
no wonder allll of the top schools have such high SAT ranges.</p>

<p>next time i might have to aim for a 610 or 620. i would be one of only 70 kids to do that. way more rare than a 2400
haha</p>

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<p>
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The fact that there are more boys than girls overall at the higher combined score levels can be accounted for by the fact that the margin of high-scoring boys over girls in math is greater than that of girls over boys in reading plus writing.

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back to the boys-are-better-than-girls-at-math thing, which for some reason some people just don't agree.</p>

<p>anyway whats your point? </p>

<p>I still don't like the SAT in that there are 2 english sections... there should be 1 english and 1 math or 2 english and 2 math. or 1 english 1 math and something else. Because like this, if your good at english, it's like you automatically have 2.</p>

<p>what i meant was that it makes it seem that people who are good at english are smarter than people who are good at math.</p>

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<p>^What are you talking about?
The SAT 1 reasoning is divided into 3 different subjects - Reading, Writing and Math.</p>

<p>With 2 sections of Writing, 3 sections of Math and 3 sections of Reading.
And if you're categorizing Writing and Reading together as "English", then you're still wrong. I know plenty of people who do much better on writing than reading, because writing is pretty simple, especially after you figure out the grammar MC and learn to write a text book 4-5 paragraph essay.</p>

<p>Perhaps you are saying that because your reading comprehension is far lower than your math, which makes it a subjective statement.</p>

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<p>294 seems like a relatively small number of perfect scores in my opinion...</p>

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<p>Hunt, 2390s are pretty rare because of the differences in the curve. One wrong on math usually takes more than that, as does 1 wrong on writing (without a perfect essay), 2 wrong on CR seems to generally be around 780...</p>

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<p>Aren't they?</p>

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<p>1,270 got the same score as me!! It's probably even less for 1550 (Old SAT, Writing sucks ass!!)</p>

<p>For those who think 294 is a small number, remember, these are people who got 800/800/800 the first time!!
I am thinking of retaking in October myself and hope I can at least get 800 on Math and 800 on Critical Reading the second time around.</p>

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<p>
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"But if you look at the same report, you'll find that there were more girls than boys who scored above 700 (and above 600) on both the critical reading and writing tests. See page 6 of <a href="http://professionals.collegeboard.co...oup_Report.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://professionals.collegeboard.co...oup_Report.pdf&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p>

<p>The fact that there are more boys than girls overall at the higher combined score levels can be accounted for by the fact that the margin of high-scoring boys over girls in math is greater than that of girls over boys in reading plus writing.</p>

<p>Donna

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<p>Also, I remember reading somewhere that male scores/IQ/intelligence tends to be more polarized than those of females, i.e. there are more men at the tip-top of the charts and more men at the bottom.</p>

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<p>102 people got 600's -.-</p>