Old SAT scores compared to redesigned SAT scores.

keiekei
Fri, 31 Mar 2017 18:28:26 +0000

In seventh grade, I took the old SAT (to get into Duke TIP) and got a 770 on Critical Reading. This January, I got a 760 on the EBRW portion of the new SAT with reading subscore 36 (four wrong) and writing subscore 40 (perfect).

If you truly got a 770 on the CR in 7th grade, you would have been identified to participate in studies and programs for the profoundly gifted. Duke, Vandy, and Johns Hopkins have been involved in programs going back decades to identify 7th graders who can achieve a 1 in 10,000-frequency score on either the SAT Math or Verbal. The qualifying score nowadays is 700 on either section, so you would have been nearly two standard deviations above that level. Probably at least 1 in 100,000 level of intelligence. It’s unlikely that you would have met anybody who is as intelligent as you are, except when you went to the genius camp to collect awards. Now that you are a HS junior, tests like the SAT and ACT should be a piece of cake for you.