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The reported scores are extremely high. I'm tempted to run an independent samples t-test to determine the probability of so many people in this forum obtaining such high scores. Even if the people who scored lower are not posting, I doubt we would have a normal distribution of scores, rather I think it would be a negatively skewed distribution. The mean of each subtest is around 505-510 and the standard deviation of the SAT subtests is about 111. So if I were to round, 68% of students score between 400-600 on one of the subtests, 5% of students score 600-700, and <1% of students score 700-800. We have a whole bunch of 1400 total and above here. I'm not implying that anyone is lying, but dang! its very peculiar.
The test-retest coefficients of the SAT range from the mid .80s to mid .90s and other methods of obtaining reliability are pretty high. However, the actual correlation between the SAT and collegiate academic outcomes is around .30, not so good.
As for my scores,
1040, now in grad school
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