Please explain SAT curve/submission?

fignewton
Sat, 22 Sep 2012 20:54:04 +0000

^But not quite correct. The SAT is not scored to achieve a particular mean or standard deviation; both float due to the need to standardize scores. The SAT was recentered in 1995 primarily because the average verbal score had drifted too far from the center of the scale. You have to go back to the pre-1941 SAT to find mean and standard deviation targets for SAT scores.