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You are right. According to Wikipedia, SAT 1600 (post-1995) is 99.93 percentile, so about 1 in 1429 (3.4 standard deviations). Given that there are millions o
by bd 16y ago
You are right.
According to Wikipedia, SAT 1600 (post-1995) is 99.93 percentile, so about 1 in 1429 (3.4 standard deviations).
Given that there are millions of people taking SAT, in absolute numbers there should be plenty of people hitting the test ceiling.
Interestingly, pre-1995 apparently had much higher ceiling, with only 1 in 142,857 getting score above 1580 (4.6 standard deviations).
Which BTW means Microsoft was founded by some really crazy dudes.
- zach 16y agoExactly. This is what Craig means when he says he got a perfect score when it meant perfect -- he got all the questions right. For example, I took one of the SATs of that era (before antonyms were removed), missed only one question on the math section but still got a mere 770. I got over it.