<p>I know the CB used to have this stuff on their site, but I can't find it now...does anyone know where the 2005 report is for how many test takers got a 1600, 1590, 1580, etc out of the total 1.5 million who took the old SAT?</p>
<p>I'm looking for the actual number of students at each scoring level.</p>
<p>I guess this is not out yet for the new SAT 1?</p>
<p>This may be what you are looking for? p. 13 of the national report (on the educators site of the College Board)</p>
<p>Marite ~ Thank you, but I am looking for what the CB used to call the aggregate scores..the actual number of kids who score at each possible score level in a year, and totaling the total number of kids taking the test.</p>
<p>I know it exists; in previous years we've talked about such things as there being about 800 "perfect" SAT 1 scores, and about there being only 250 or so 1590 scores. There are more 1600 scores than 1590 scores because the 1600 represents the end of the tail of possible scores while 1590 is a discrete outcome. Then the number of 1580 scores is higher than 1590 (nearly double, from memory)...</p>
<p>But where is that report? That's what I can't figure out.</p>
<p>That report hasn't been issued for the "new" SAT yet--I've looked. It should appear after a while, as that is a very typical kind of report for College Board. </p>
<p>See </p>
<p><a href="http://www.collegeboard.com/highered/ra/sat/sat_data_satI.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.collegeboard.com/highered/ra/sat/sat_data_satI.html</a> </p>
<p>for some of the latest reports.</p>
<p>Tokenadult ~ Thank you! This is really close to what I am looking for...the link you rpvided has the composite percentile ranks, but it doesn't have the actual numbers of individuals who scored 1600, 1590, 1580, etc. You wouldn't know where this data is, would you? Even for 2004 or 2005 on the old test it would be great.</p>
<p>I know this data used to be on the CB site, and it is really frustrating me that I can't find it now.</p>
<p>Old data are here: </p>
<p>(I learned of this link from a CC thread more than a year ago.)</p>
<p>Yes! That's the ticket, exactly. Thanks again, Tokenadult.</p>
<p>What does percentile 99+ mean? 99.5? 99.9?</p>
<p>How closely do SAT I scores match up with standard deviation scores (with 500 as zero, 700 as +2 Std. Dev., 800 as +3 Std. Dev.)?</p>
<p>If I read the chart correctly 99+ means greater than 99.5% if the CB had provided a third digit. See below:</p>
<p>1600 0.07%
1590 0.03%
1580 0.05%
1570 0.05%
1560 0.07%
1550 0.09%
1540 0.10%</p>
<p>This means 0.07% of all scorers earned a 1600 in 2004.</p>
<p>I've not looked at the standard deviation scores...where do you see these?</p>
<p>I always understood that the scores were historically standard deviation scores centered at 500 and with Std. Dev. of 100 for each test. The last link posted above indeed shows a median of 1026 and a standard deviation of 210 (on two scores combined), so that is pretty close. But I don't know how officially the reported scores, seperately or combined, are intended to be a thinly disguised form of standard deviation scores.</p>
<p>"There are more 1600 scores than 1590 scores because the 1600 represents the end of the tail of possible scores while 1590 is a discrete outcome."</p>
<p>The GRE did or does distribute scores within the tail, to 900 or higher.</p>
<p>Historical note: The SAT I scores formerly used the full 200-800 scale and didn't round to the nearest 10. So, someone might have had a math score of 784. Of course, this would now be a 800 on the recentered scale.</p>
<p>I was just looking at Tokenadult's link, and it's heading was "2004 College-bound Seniors". Does that mean if you took the test in 2004 but were a junior, you wouldn't be included in that statistic? And if that was your only sitting, would that mean you wouldn't be included in any year's statistic?</p>
<p>Okay, so I have a question and I have had it for a few years. Actually it is multiple questions:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>Of thes scores listed how many represent certain students taking it twice? In other words, one 1540 and one 1480 belong to the same student?</p></li>
<li><p>What does this chart look like for the best compbined scores? Or is this the best combined scores of students taking the test.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>Based upon what I have read it is not clear. 1.5M test takers seems to imply multiple tests combined but I am uncertain. Does anyone know?</p>
<p>It's clear from the chart that I posted a link to </p>
<p>that they are counting STUDENTS with a common graduation year. They can track records individually for each student because each student has unique identifying information. </p>
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<p>It is indeed possible, as you are noticing, that a single student might have taken the SAT more than once, and the chart doesn't say explicitly that only the highest single-sitting score for each student in that graduation year is counted, but that would be my guess, given the structure of the chart. The high school graduating class each year nationwide is more numerous than that, so I think the chart is showing DISTINCT INDIVIDUALS in that graduating class who have taken the SAT at least once (and possibly more than once, but with only each student's highest single-sitting score being shown on the chart). </p>
<p>There are probably notes about this chart somewhere on College Board's hard-to-navigate Web site, but I don't have a handy URL for the definitive answer.</p>
<p>I'm guessing that Tokenadult is correct because I seem to recall that the number of tests given in 2004 was quite a bit bigger than 1.4 million, so this implies to me that the scores are best single sitting. However, I would again guess that if a student takes the test once in their Junior year, their score is counted the following year when they are a "college bound senior." Just my guess. I also cannot find the details too easily on the CB's site; that's why I was looking for help.</p>
<p>I do think the distribution is probably very similar from year to year, except when CB is covering its tracks with occasssional recentering.</p>