Is a 800 in math or 800 in CR more rare?

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<p>Which one is better/more rare? 800 in math or 800 in critical reading?</p>

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<p>Critical Reading</p>

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<p>CR!!! (hopefully xP)</p>

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<p>I'm pretty sure CR.</p>

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<p>Crit. Reading</p>

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<p>critical reading</p>

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<p>Wow, hmm, yall don't know much about normalized distribution curves i see.</p>

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<p>huh?</p>

<p>10 char</p>

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<p>CR. I could easily get an 800 in math while in 8th grade.</p>

<p>Then again, I'm asian.</p>

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<p>@ Corroborator </p>

<p>How sure are you that they grade on a normal distribution? I've definitely seen more perfect scorers in math than in Critical Reading.</p>

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<p>Corroborator is the only one correct here:
an 800 in Math is rarer than an 800 in CR</p>

<p>2006 College-Bound Students Statistics:
CR: Total 8862 Male: 4102 Female: 4760
M : Total 8057 Male: 5819 Female: 2238</p>

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<p>I hang out at Math forums, so I do know quite a lot of young 800 SAT-Math scorers. </p>

<p>I guess 800-CR ppl don't frequent forums as much! :P</p>

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<p>So there are only about 9,000 perfect CR scorers in the country and 8,000 for math?</p>

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<p>Writing was the rarest 800 last year -- by huge margin. Here are the links to the numbers -- for college-bound seniors class of 2006 -- numbers of each score:</p>

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

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

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

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

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<p>Apparently the increasingly important asian factor apparently outweighs any normalized distribution curves, resulting in 800 math scores more common than 800 critical reading scores</p>

<p>In theory a compensating adjustment could be made for this at some point down the road</p>

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<p>i'm asian...i got a 730...i don't think i'm that bad at math...<em>cries</em></p>

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<p>You're probably not. I'm just ahead 1 or 2 years in my math course. Taking Calc BC as a Junior.</p>

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<p>i'm taking multivariable as a 15 year old senior...so i really don't think i'm that bad at math...</p>

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<p>15 year old senior? You're lucky -- they wouldn't let me skip.</p>

<p>Just make less careless mistakes then via practice. In your case, I severely doubt it's because you don't know the material that you lost points.</p>

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<p>eh they forced me to skip, its not fun and definently not lucky</p>