<p>Granted the scale and content of the test are different now, what did you score compared to your S or D?</p>
<p>And how would we remember that? LOL</p>
<p>There was a thread on this a year or more back. Someone even had the conversion calculation–to figure out what your scores woudl be now based on scores then . I’ll see if I can find anything (dont hold your breath though-- will probably be hard to find)</p>
<p>“But my scores were from before recentering.”</p>
<p>This is my excuse for scoring 20 points lower than my daughter on the verbal SAT (now critical reading), 20 points lower on the math, and 20 points lower on what was then the English Composition achievement test and is now the SAT Writing section. </p>
<p>She doesn’t buy this excuse. I wouldn’t expect her to.</p>
<p>One effect of recentering is that scores are apparently “inflated” relative to scores before 1995. For example, what would have been a 1490 cumulative (V+M) score before 1995 is now called a 1600, the maximum possible score. Put another way, a score of 1600 today could correspond to a score as low as 1490
for scales prior to 1995. All scores, down to the lowest, are inflated
relative to historical counterparts.</p>
<p>Source: ColinFahey.com</p>
<p>I don’t remember, but my standardized test scores on a percentile basis (SAT, LSAT, GMAT, Achievement Tests/SAT II, IQ, etc.) are all pretty much the same as both my sons. Although the kids haven’t taken the LSAT or GMAT. Just so you know. </p>
<p>OK, I do remember my GMAT and LSAT scores, but those don’t compare to modern scores, either. The GMAT now scores much higher, and the LSAT isn’t scored on an 800-point scale anymore.</p>
<p>Basically, I’m obsolete.</p>
<p>RECENTERING! That was the word I was looking for, Marian. Thanks!
Here’s one of the old threads <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=265381[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=265381</a>
I know there were others-- I’ll keep looking</p>
<p>Like Marian, I scored only slightly lower than my D, but with re-centering it all evens out. At least, that’s what I’ve told myself.</p>
<p>I still have my original CB report, and my AP scores and GRE’s. I’ve kept all that stuff with my college and grad school acceptance letters. They’re in the same file folder with a nursery school report which says that I have learned to skip and gallop. :)</p>
<p>I happened to come across my old SAT scores when sorting through a box in the hall closet. My score was exactly the same as my older son’s. I thought that was interesting. (I didn’t mention re-centering to him; he is the competitive sort.) My younger son was, I believe, higher in math, but lower in verbal, with a lower overall score. (But he’s the musician; what does he care?)</p>
<p>mine, recentered, are still a little lower than my kids!</p>
<p>A lot lower in all the sections. The Analogy section confused the heck out of me.</p>
<p>Didn’t do anywhere near as well but also didn’t have the opportunities. Nevertheless, life turned out pretty damn good. I even ended up with a Ph.D. but don’t use it much.</p>
<p>I think I was in the high 1200s with much higher verbal than math. We did no preparation (1969-70) and I don’t remember much about the whole deal.</p>
<p>MOWC. Me too. High 12’s except mine were even. It was the Saturday morning after Homecoming. I may have still been slightly intoxicated. I’m not joking. I had a bad decade going there, 14-24. </p>
<p>Prep? Yeah, right.</p>
<p>So that means D killed me even after re-centering.</p>
<p>ROTFL! I’d be heading to East Podunka U, as opposed to top 20!</p>
<p>1490 as a junior in 1968. Didn’t take as a senior. 690 math, 800 verbal.</p>
<p>I’ve always regretted the ten points in math that kept me from the 1500. I suddenly decided to graduate so I never took them again.</p>
<p>My D is smarter. 180 point difference in our CR+M scores. Even with recentering, she has the advantage.</p>
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<p>Your daughter might well be smarter but some extremely smart people don’t get top notch scores on standardized tests. Cut yourself some slack. :)</p>
<p>I also have the original CB report: 692M/628V in 1969. You can also find them in your college transcripts (at least in mine). S did much better.</p>
<p>With recentering apparently I too would have gotten an 800 in CR. (I actually got a 740.) My math score of 730 wouldn’t have changed and was 40 points lower than Mathson’s. On the SAT2, I got a 790 to his 800 in Math2, 680 in something English-y, and something over 700 (but can’t remember what) in Eur. or World History. Mathson got 800s on US history and physics so he definitely beat me there! So I was close to son, but slightly lower. Dh’s scores were slightly higher than mine, but still slightly lower than Mathson’s.</p>