Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site eneevax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!umcp-cs!eneevax!hsu 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 Article-I.D.: eneevax.399 Posted: Mon Oct 28 19:46:29 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 1-Nov-85 00:36:19 EST References: <1730@watdcsu.UUCP> <249@laidbak.UUCP> <990@oddjob.UUCP> <112@cher.UUCP> <3032@sdcc3.UUCP> <760@adobe.UUCP> <3045@sdcc3.UUCP> Reply-To: hsu@eneevax.UUCP (Dave Hsu) Organization: U of Maryland, EE Dept., College Park, MD Lines: 36 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 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- David Hsu Across the net... USnail: Communications & Signal Processing Laboratory hsu @ eneevax.umd.edu Dept of Electr Engr, Univ Md hsu @ mit-prep.arpa College Park, MD 20742 hsu @ umd2.arpa UUCP: {seismo,allegra}!umcp-cs!eneevax!hsu BITnet: CF522 @ UMDD "...YOU can enjoy an EXCITING career as a diesel mechanic..."