Bark said:
Besides the fact that the test now has 3 categories, I'm not sure if the difficulty level has increased or decreased over time. I took it in 1996 and if I remember only 1 kid in the entire State scored a 1600 that year. Now there are a dozen or so kids who get the equivalent of a perfect score and yet schools are allegedly crappy. I had a 620 Verbal and 660 Math that got me a good number of scholarship offers even though I didn't play any varsity sports or have an interesting ethnicity. |
I think the difficulty has decreased as a result of more people going to college. As college has sort of become a requirement rather than a plus for many jobs out there, the vast majority of people end up going to college - many more than even 10 years ago. And, for better or for worse, many of those people don't give a damn about learning things. Thus SATs have probably gotten somewhat easier to keep the average where it's supposed to be. I'd just be a little surprised if it was a great bell curve...
