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Thats not fair! You didn't read the report. The scores are all normalized to reflect the new scoring. This is an apples to apples comparison.

[Grampa Dave]

Left Wing Troll alarm with balanced
Since Aug 28, 2003, having wet dreams about the SAT that makes dummies look smart.

Someone please ping the Viking Kitties. I have better things to do,like go fly fishing.

[RANGERAIRBORNE]

Yeah, right- anything you say. I just would like to see the results if these "brilliant students" took the SAME SAT's that were given in 1960 or so...

This is a crock- the average college graduate today knows LESS than the average college-bound High School senior did a generation ago. The proliferation of external aids (like being able to GOOGLE anything, the use of graphing calculators, etc) covers up a lot of this ignorance. They may not actually KNOW much, but they can look it up when needed.

[ctonious]

Thats not fair! You didn't read the report. The scores are all normalized to reflect the new scoring. This is an apples to apples comparison.

About 5 years ago, they changed the way they score the SAT, so the same performance would go up by about 100 points. So no, things aren't really better.

My understanding is as Koblenz indicates; a 516 SAT score today is not the same as a 516 SAT score in 1967. Today's students take a different test designed to get the same test results. i.e. - if the scores drop over the years, can't be the students - it's gotta be that the test is wrong. However, if you have data indicating how the scores have been normalized after they have changed the test- please post. Thanks.