<p>Those of us who had scores with third digits other than zero are indeed old – myself among them.</p>
<p>I took what were then called Achievement Tests (now SAT Subject Tests) in 1970. This was the last year that scores were reported to the third digit. I remember my scores vividly because I got a 699 (ouch!) in Spanish.</p>
<p>The next year, 1971, I took the regular SAT. That was the year when the College Board started rounding all scores to the nearest 10. They included prior scores in the rounding. So when I got my SAT score report, which (just like now) included old scores as well as new ones, the previous year’s Spanish Achievement Test score had magically risen from a 699 to a 700. :)</p>
<p>We oldsters may also remember that you had to take a separate National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test in our time. It wasn’t until a few years later that it was combined with the PSAT.</p>
<p>I was noticing how old we all are as well. I took mine in 1964. I guess I’m the oldest. My score was something in the mid 1300’s and that was good! back then.</p>
<p>H and I both took ACT (Illinois seniors)…He did significantly higher on math than I; I smoked him on the verbal side. D must have got the best genes from both of us…and scored comparably to him on math and me on verbal. Cool.</p>
<p>I had a 1300 before re-centering – 670 V, 630 M. Add in the perfect TSWE score and it would be 740 CR/630 M/800 W, or 2170 with recentering. ACH scores were 670 USH and 500 (gack!!!) Math Level I. You can tell I was verbally loaded… I had only gone through AlgII, and did not take math senior year due to scheduling conflicts. When we started dating DH told me about the curve for Level II – so it was in place even in the late 70s.</p>
<p>DH had a 1500 – 740 V, 760 M. 800s on Math Level II, Chem and Physics ACH. Would be a 1560 CR & M recentered.</p>
<p>Don’t know the score, but do know for a fact, and one that I tell the kids frequently, that my score was higher than DH’s. We were debate partners at the time.</p>
<p>My math was much better than my verbal, and I had the three digit type scores. I was higher, centered or not, than either offspring in math, but lower, centered or not, in verbal. I had to take ACT after I got to college (required by the big midwestern U), and since I had not taken biology, my natural science score skewered my score down. I had to meet with a counselor to get my scores. The counselor was blind and he had a seeing eye dog. To my mortification, when I asked him if I could pat the dog (not knowing the protocol), he told me no. All in all, I felt very bad after that meeting…</p>
<p>Can’t remember SAT (it just wasn’t that big a deal - we showed up and took it and accepted as gospel the idea that you “couldn’t study” for it). I ran across my GRE scores last year. Curious how they would compare to today I logged in to the website - only to discover that my subject test is no longer given! Now I feel really old.</p>
<p>Sorry to speak for my mom, but she won’t get an account. (She thinks that if she doesn’t actually sign up, its doesn’t matter how many hours she spends watching the boards, it isn’t obsession. I let her think that because I’m a good girl :))</p>
<p>I scored higher than her on ACT (she didn’t take SAT), but she got into UIUC. Now? Well, let’s just say that her chances of getting in would be a bit lower…</p>
<p>My kids smoked me on the SATs, where I scored 1350. Oh well. Curiously, My DH and I scored w/in 25 points of each other, my verbal higher than his math, his math higher than my verbal. </p>
<p>I remember sitting for the ACT but have no idea what my score was. My kids didn’t take it, or the SATIIs which they feel is a waste of time and money and refuse to apply to colleges which require it. Nice - this attitude will get them far.</p>
<p>Hmmmm . . . Interesting. I’m old (graduated from HS in 1966) and I did study. I had some CollegeBoard prep book that I used the summer before, studying vocabulary and how "if two trains leave at the same time heading in opposite directions . . . " I don’t think I broke 700 on either part – so I’m guessing I wound up around 1300. Better than S1 and much worse than S2.</p>
<p>My H and I had exactly the same score, but mine were almost even, while he tilted toward math. Our score is 20 higher than D’s, 20 lower than S’s, but, apparently, according to woo.design, we really had 1600s, so we beat them both! Woo hoo!</p>
<p>Edit: we are all big fans of the analogies, and luckily all took them before they got left out.</p>
<p>I don’t know how to do the recentering, but I remember getting 1300
(650/650). H got 1390. (BTW, we both were NMFs) We didn’t prep and I recall thinking 1400 was a really super great score that hardly anybody cracked. I think our kids are about as smart as we are, but better prepared, and there’s that recentering factor, so their scores are higher.</p>
<p>In the past year I found my PSAT junior year score report, I have it here. Can’t find SAT report but I know the scores. </p>
<p>The PSAT report (1968 my jr year) is 12 pages long, pretty interesting stuff. Anyone else from that era have or remember this report? It’s 8x11" unlike SAT reports which (I think?) utilized smaller pages. It has tables where you can plug in your score and see how you compare to other boys or girls (separate charts!), all junior boys (or girls), junior boys who later entered college, and junior boys who finished their first year of college in good standing. Also for seniors who took that specific PSAT. On the cover there’s a picture of a (kinda dorky) male student with black frame glasses and sport coat, carrying books and looking skyward.</p>
<p>Anyway, for me PSAT 63 V, 75 M. For instance according to the tables, 63 V is 98% for all junior boys, 97% for jr boys who later entered college, about 96% for jr boys who later completed their first yr of college in good standing. Average scores for Senior Year test takers are also listed and are higher of course, but I’m surprised how low these national averages are: Verbal: 35 for all junior boys, 39 junior boys who later entered college, 42 for junior boys who completed first year of college in good standing. For girls those numbers are 36, 42 and 43. But of course remember we entered that PSAT junior year knowing virtually nothing about it ( for me at least). Math, boys, same 3 categories: 39, 48, 50. Girls, math same 3 categories: 36, 44, 45.</p>
<p>My SAT taken once 590V, 800M. 1390 but recenters to 1460. And 711 English comp. 737 Math I and 619 Chem</p>
<p>Son 750V, 700M also taken once. So after recentering I beat him by 10 points (he’s much smarter than I but I do kid him from time to time about that 10 points).</p>
<p>I was told in high school that SAT’s are impossible to study for, just get sleep and eat a good breakfast! I wish no one had ever figured out studying was possible, I’m now paying $1700 for designer prep class for kid.</p>
<p>I took the SAT’s in 1978. 610 math 530 verbal. I did not attend college (family issues - nothing to do with lack of desire or $$) But I had been accepted to Drexel and penn state and U of Delaware.</p>
<p>My son got 790 math and 740 verbal. and he did no test prep or studying for the test. </p>
<p>he’s so much smarter than me it isn’t even close.</p>
<p>I mentioned it before, check a college transcript. There is a line with all those scores in it (at least in Florida of 35 years ago). It’s free if you have one.</p>