i always hear people saying if you took the SAT before X year add 100 to your score for your modern score. why did the grading or whatever change? like why aren’t they the same anymore
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Recentering began in 1997- normalizing (as in making to fit a normal statistical distribution) the scores.
Before that, it was basically straight arithmetic to calculate the score. 800 in math or verbal meant you didn’t miss a single question in that section.
After that, 800 meant you were in the top tenth of a percent of all test-takers for that section- not that you necessarily got every answer right.
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