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Yes but no one takes the writing portion as a real measure of anything concerning scholastic ability and its the most coach-able part of the test and even back
by WesternStar 12y ago
Yes but no one takes the writing portion as a real measure of anything concerning scholastic ability and its the most coach-able part of the test and even back when I was taking it a 200 point difference was taken to be no guarantee of differing levels of academic ability.
- thaumasiotes 12y agoThe difference has been hundreds of points since long before the merging of the writing test into the SAT. And yes, a 200 point difference is, and always has been, a large difference. I think the standard deviation is generally in the ballpark of 120 points.
- WesternStar 12y agoThey rescaled the test in 1990 so that the std deviation would be 200 points. So if that's the case that's really odd.
- thaumasiotes 12y ago2014 statistics ( http://research.collegeboard.org/content/sat-data-tables http://research.collegeboard.org/content/sat-data-tables ) say: SD for verbal is 115, math is 120. This must have been what I was thinking of. SD for overall (V+M) score is 218. The overall SD is much more relevant here, but let's note that a difference of one standard deviation is still a very large difference.