What we don’t know and will not know until next September (?) is how National Merit will use the scores. Back in my day (in the late 80s), when the writing and reading were called Verbal, National Merit doubled the Verbal score and added the math to determine cut offs. This was done to increase the number of female qualifiers. Once they broke Verbal in two, they didn’t need to do that anymore. I have to believe they will go back to a similar formula as in the 80s, etc. to keep the numbers of female students in the range.
Has anyone seen anything on this yet? The prepscholar blog seems to be ignoring that issue and converting to a 1600 scale.