In to hijack first post of page 148.

http://www.kids-iq-tests.com/Famous-SAT-Scores.html

I think its scaled so that every possible score is possible. With the amount of people taking the test, I would expect it such that the granualarity is always enough that every score should be achievable.

Paul Allen beat me.

-1 for believing in God ldo

Just did some quick research. Looks like sometime in the 80s they started only reporting scores in increments of 10, before that, they did have increments of 1. So, excuse me very much, bigger.

I laugh

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Each section receives a score on the scale of 200–800. All scores are multiples of 10.

Thats a quote from the wiki page. But based on what I've been looking at, as recently as the 70s (1979 based on what bigger got) they didn't report then in increments of 10.

I knew I shouldn't have checked that box.

That explains some of the scores on the famous SAT scores page.

Yeah, I became suspicious when I noticed all the people with scores that had zero's were on the younger side, while the ones that were in increments of 1 were older.

No, that memory is seared in me. I still remember the scoring sheet attached to it. A 790 was not possible that year.

I was just thinking about the irony of having to take a poly-graph test to prove that you believe in god.

footnoteish thing.

so it's elementary (primary) --> middle school / junior high --> high school (secondary). 12 years of schooling not including kindergarten or pre-kindergarten or pre-pre-kindergarten or mozart-in-the-womb or what have you.

high school is the last 4 years - 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th.

but the difference between middle school & junior high is,

middle school = 6th, 7th, 8th grades

junior high = 7th, 8th, 9th grades

so a school system or district that has middle schools, also has all 4 high school years *at* the high school (physical building/location).

a district with junior highs has 1 year of high school at the junior high (9th), then the remaining 3 years at the high school. the high school record/transcript is still the final 4 years of schooling.

(further note: some districts, recognizing 9th grade as transition year, have a separate school just for ninth graders) (or at least, they used to)

also, this

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0..._n_421751.html

I'm just thinking there are 54 questions on the math section, all of which you can either get wrong, not answer or get right. That leaves 108 possible raw scores to get (at the least). There are 60 different possible scores between 200-800 if scores are assigned only in increments on 10. ~1.5 million kids take the test every year. How could every score not be possible?

It would be a heck of a lot easier if out Year 4 was the equivalent of your 4th Grade in age terms, but w/e.

You know, I'm sure atak could come in and answer all these things for you since he's a test-taking genius and all

I think it's related to the fact that each test is normed against previous tests, in terms of difficulty, so that a 790 on this exam should be equivalent to a 790 on an exam a year ago.

& difficulty is determined by, how did everyone else do (sheep scoring?). so there's a statistical blip that creates the gap between the 800 and the 780...either you did well enough to get the 800, or you did slightly less well, but slightly not well enough to get the 790 instead of 780.

someone should google it for the real answer, tho

You guys got answer sheets and detailed scoring? All I remember is getting a letter saying

Math 660
Verbal 660

Wasn't he talking about the GRE, not the SAT?

Not sure if he meant the quantitative section on the general GRE or the math subject GRE, though. Sounded like the latter.

I was talking about the math portion of the general GRE. (I'd guess that the math subject GRE is 10 times harder. The books said that the quantitative section of the GRE is actually easier than the math SAT.)

You generally only get a letter with the score. But for an additional fee, you could request your scoring sheet and a sheet that showed how to translate raw into scaled. You could do the same thing for the SAT, too. I remember seeing that I skipped a question.

12 points short of epic

LOL at the IQ score page.

James Woods
IQ Score 180

Dolph Lundgren
IQ Score 160

No Idiot here: Marilyn Vos Savant
IQ Score 228