“College Board considers a score of 1550 to be the “College and Career Readiness Benchmark”
Had ~1450 back when, Merit Scholar, Salutatorian, a semester of AP credit. Have to read deeper to see they’ve added 800 points to the test to make sense of it.
Still, 1550 would be like 1030 back when, which was a respectable score for a college ready student - they must have dumbed the test down as well as adding a section.
I scored 1340 when I took it right before my senior year (1985). That put me in the 95th percentile nationwide, and I think I had the highest SAT score in my graduating class.
Today, that and $2 will get me a cup of coffee. :)
The reason they added the writing section is because it is extremely subjectively graded. If you write as a leftist lib you’ll get 800 plus a watered down version of the reading and math we all used to take.
These folks couldn’t figure out change from a $10 bill.
I noticed that in an earlier article.
It looks like they added a new section, for another 800 points. The "verbal" section has been replaced by separate "reading" and "writing" sections.