And what about recentering the curve to bring the lower scores up and to shift the median into the middle of the score scale? Don’t you think that is happening again to pander to the states? And what about SAT School Day?
Circa 2000, CB touted it had produced a “well-aligned” curve in which the mean=mean score= (about) the SAME score for both verbal and math=middle of the score range, and I notice that on the redesigned PSAT, the 50th percentile for users is around 480 for both verbal and math. However, the “college ready” mark is noticeably lower for Reading/Writing than for Math: 390 for Reading/Writing and 500 for Math. This score allegedly corresponds to a 75% chance of earning a C average the first year of college. Would there not be other combinations of Reading/Writing and Math scores that would also lead to a 75% chance of a C-average, say 500 in R/W and 390 in M, or 450 in both? Or is this just fudging the data so that more of certain populations turn out to be “college ready”?