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From: hsu@eneevax.UUCP (Dave Hsu)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: Northwestern?/caltech
Message-ID: <399@eneevax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 28-Oct-85 19:46:29 EST
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Posted: Mon Oct 28 19:46:29 1985
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In article <3045@sdcc3.UUCP> ewa@sdcc3.UUCP (Eric Anderson) writes:
>In article <760@adobe.UUCP> greid@adobe.UUCP (Glenn Reid) writes:
>>>OK. My SAT Math score was 780. (780=1 wrong)
>>>
>>>Eric Anderson, UC San Diego
>>
>>Wrong. ...[text deleted]
>>and the highest score on the exam gets an 800.  The breaks are every 10
>>points on this scale (i.e. 800, 790, 780, etc.) but just because you got an
>>800 doesn't mean you got them all right, necessarily.  Neither does 780
>>mean "1 wrong". 
>>
>>Glenn Reid   {ihnp4!decwrl!adobe!greid}
>
>No, I am perfectly correct: In any given year at least one person will get a
>perfect score (I know three such people from my high school). Thus 800 will be
>the top and perfect score. In a year when the test is hard, 1 wrong tends to
>be 780, if the test is easier 1 wrong tends to be 770. Moving down the scale
>this distinction is not so easy, but at the very end it changes very little.
>
>Eric Anderson, UC San Diego         {elsewhere}!ihnp4!ucbvax!sdcsvax!sdcc3!ewa

Not precisely.  It does go down by 10's; I ended up with a 790 on an '81 testing
in which I know of 800's.

-dave

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