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scores have changed considerably since the 80's, Jazz. I took mine in '93 and they've been normalized since then, as well.
and I just looked at the SAT website and it appears the test has again been changed since 2005.
I know from past real life discussions with people in my cohort that comparing scores from different versions is worse than pointless. my scores were about 200 pts lower than some of the other students but my percentile score was similar to some and higher than others. then I looked it up and our scores were roughly similar taking the changes in scoring into account.
I don't remember having an extra essay portion. we had a standardized verbal portion. if we did, I don't think it was scored separately like my GRE's were scored. oh well, that's my piece on this because the rest of the thread is uninteresting to me.
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